Working in some more love for those skills.
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In regards to this I feel, outside of a DM overseen situation, you're never going to be able to develop hard and fast rules for everyone to agree to. That being said, I'm more than willing to allow peoples high social skills to affect my method of playing my character. It's fun and allows situations that I wouldn't necessarily find my character in normally to happen. I like to walk my characters into traps that I OOCly can see are traps! I like to spend two months working alongside Joe-Goodguy to thwart the big bad guy even though I OOCly know that Evil-Mcscary is actually just Joe in a black mask.
But thats me. And I don't get heavily invested in my characters. So basically, for these things you're going to have to do it on a case by case basis as you get to know different players playstyles oocly. As your knowledge of who you're playing with develops, so will you ability to do stuff like this.
Much love,
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Personally, to me, what is FAR more important is that if you have no points in those skills, you shouldn't be using your uber player RP skills to pretend your character does have them.
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Ultimately it's a game. You can RP your skills all you want, but the role-playing is limited by the mechanics of a game. Why exactly is a fighter a poor diplomat, for example? He can only be one at the sacrifice of his fighting ability. Don't get hung up on skills in RP, imo.
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@AWESOMEMAN:
Ultimately it's a game. You can RP your skills all you want, but the role-playing is limited by the mechanics of a game. Why exactly is a fighter a poor diplomat, for example? He can only be one at the sacrifice of his fighting ability. Don't get hung up on skills in RP, imo.
Skill doesn't magically appaear on the wind. It takes time to learn.
Thats why you get skill points. Skill points represent the fact the character has spent time/effort to learn something. Likewise, a stat represents how good they are naturally.If you give someone a mediocre stat, and 1 skill point in Persuade or Bluff or whatever, then you should not be RPing them as being good at it.
If I want a character to be able to lie well, I take Bluff. Even if its cross classed. You might say "but that sacrifices my ability to fight well because I take less Discilpline". Exactly. Thats the whole point.
In my case, I have to choose between my Lore/Spellcraft and my cross-classed bluff. Or a whole level of some other class that gets it as a class skill.Otherwise we might as well use a text-based systemless MOO.
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Otherwise we might as well use a text-based systemless MOO.
I might actually be able to keep up with something like that.
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I thought this discussion was over already.
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This discussion has been going on for a decade on this server.
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@AWESOMEMAN:
This discussion has been going on for a decade on this server.
Nah. don't forget the server moved. its only been 8 1/2 years on this server
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@AWESOMEMAN:
This discussion has been going on for a decade on this server.
We will all have neural implants and/or have transferred our consciousness to the Singularity and will still discuss about this.