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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terwox" data-source="post: 1559832" data-attributes="member: 1044">From a "roleplaying" perspective, I've been mocked as being a roll-player before because I'd have my character try to cut speeches off and charge.Had a DM who just froze time while his NPCs were ranting.I think just charging isn't really necessarily out of line... he's a villian, he hates you, you hate him, and we're supposed to listen to them mock us while he's standing right there, ready to be slain, ripe for the slaughter?nope!  I charge him.  I wouldn't be roleplaying some of my characters if I -didn't- charge -- is somebody really roleplaying a barbarian if they DON'T charge a guy who is mocking them?Now, villianous rants while the villain is somehow unreachable... this is hard to do in D&D... lots of spells to foil any barriers the villian would set up.On the other hand, in games I've DM'd, and a few I've played in, there's been a lot of talking before, and mid-fight.  Not much for the rant of evil, though... just lots of insults and yelling thrown about.I just don't want to let it turn into dragonball z.  Five minutes of fighting after three episodes of taunting.  no thanks!I dunno, I'm also, as a DM, just not a very good ranter, and I've never really played under anybody who did classic evil rants terribly well.  So I dunno!</blockquote>