Post#8 » Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:54 pm
This reminds me a bit of something I saw years ago online.
PC: I open the door into the next room.
DM: You see an orc armed with a battleaxe guarding a chest.
PC: I enter into a frank and meaningful dialogue with the orc, validating his right to guard chests, but not pigeon-holing him into a stereotype, in the hopes of restructuring the traditional adventurer/monster antagonistic relationship into something more positive and mutually beneficial.
DM: Make a CHA check.
PC: I succeed.
DM: The orc is moved by your rhetoric. Casting his battleaxe aside, he sits down on the chest and invites you to join him in a brainstorming session about ways to revitalize the decaying subterranean infrastructure and society of the dungeon, perhaps with a--
PC: While he is distracted, I stab him with my sword.