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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8659410" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Absolutely, that would be a reasonable way to go. As a player, I'd do things like not making perception checks that rely on sight normally and involve things I couldn't possibly hear or otherwise perceive*, but as a DM I wouldn't force a player to do the same. *For me, things like that are fun when I am the one deciding when to use them as a spice for the game. They become immediately boring and often obnoxious when they become the DM's tool to &quot;gotcha&quot; the PCs or otherwise try to force players to play a certain way. If I want my traumatized gnomish sailor to murder stab the captive goliath wizard mind-controlling slave overseer when they express disinterest in the fate of dwarven slaves sold to the necromancer cult that murdered my PC's friends because he lost control, that's a satisfying RP moment that added a lot to the session. If the DM had forced a wisdom save against murder-impulse, I'd be completely taken out of the scene and just roll my eyes at the mechanization of that sort of internal emotional reaction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8659410, member: 6704184"] Absolutely, that would be a reasonable way to go. As a player, I'd do things like not making perception checks that rely on sight normally and involve things I couldn't possibly hear or otherwise perceive*, but as a DM I wouldn't force a player to do the same. *For me, things like that are fun [I]when I am the one deciding when to use them as a spice for the game.[/I] They become immediately boring and often obnoxious when they become the DM's tool to "gotcha" the PCs or otherwise try to force players to play a certain way. If I want my traumatized gnomish sailor to murder stab the captive goliath wizard mind-controlling slave overseer when they express disinterest in the fate of dwarven slaves sold to the necromancer cult that murdered my PC's friends because he lost control, that's a satisfying RP moment that added a lot to the session. If the DM had forced a wisdom save against murder-impulse, I'd be completely taken out of the scene and just roll my eyes at the mechanization of that sort of internal emotional reaction. [/QUOTE]

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