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  • The way I see it, there’s nothing wrong with voicing your opinion, especially between games. Saying “hey, I feel like the fantasy of my character isn’t coming to life, is there any way I could get you to take the Charisma score of my character in greater consideration during social interactions going forward?” after a game is a great way to deal with that. That said, there’s only so much that Charisma can account for. No matter how charismatic you are, you won’t persuade a king to give up his kingdom. Your DM likely thinks your arguments are just too weak for you to persuade someone, regardless of your Charisma. Maybe their expectations regarding your wit and roleplay are too high, or maybe you need to re-evaluate your expectations of what is possible in your game.


  • Sentences like “Can I roll for persuasion?” or worse “I perception the room” are one of my biggest pet peeves coming from players. Tell me what you want to accomplish, I will tell you whether and what you need to roll. I’ve mostly managed to train that behavior out of my players, thankfully. As a newbie DM I used to use die rolls as a crutch – “this is a dice rolling game, so the more dice we roll the more fun we’re having, right?” I thought. I also hated saying no to my players, so stupidly high DCs were a way to shift the blame onto the dice for my players’ failures. As I’ve gained experience, I run a much less dice-heavy game. I very often just let my PCs succeed with no roll required.

    The one case where I don’t mind the players asking to roll is when they ask to “INSIGHT CHECK” à la critical role; it’s always fun to see the players so passionately engaging with NPCs.














  • A dragonborn with a draconic bloodline color that differs from their own scale color causing cognitive dissonance and personality swings has been a character idea of mine for a long time. Never thought of my character having two heads though, very cool. I think I would play this as the draconic bloodline’s head growing in progressively over several levels.

    As a DM, I would have a conversation with the player about how this would work for them, but as long as it mostly affects roleplay and not mechanics I would allow it. Roleplaying two heads has to be difficult though, I would probably run a trial session in case the player realizes it’s a terrible idea and wants to do something else.

    If my player wanted this to have mechanical implications, I would probably tell them to just build their character accordingly. You want to be more perceptive because of your two heads? Take the Alert feat at level 4. You want to dual wield more effectively? Take the Dual Wielder feat at level 8. etc.

    Alternatively, I could see two players sharing this character. That could be really fun for a one-shot or short campaign. For all intents and purposes, they would act as two separate characters, with two different initiatives, their own resource pools, their own saving throws etc., would share their ability scores, movement in combat and would have to agree to perform athletic and acrobatic maneuvers such as climbing and jumping. Each character could choose their own class progression independently.