Topic: Alignment question / Leadership Roll

[markc]

 On alignment, I generally keep a players alignment on a card and only warn them if they are straying to far from their gods path if they are a cleric of that god.
 Since I have the alignment I can decide what bonus or negative it will apply in a given situation. Now arguing with a player about what they would or would not do based on the PC's past actions is another question.

MDC

[thrud]

A character could abandon the love of his life if necessry and motivated. Sure, it would be painful to the extreme but it can be done.
A character can betray his lord if motivated enough. Sure, but he better get the h**l out of there or bad stuff will happen.

[yammahoper]

(clears throat, picks up dice...)

You shall all send me ONE DOLLAR!

(rolls dice, hopes for open ended...)

[jolt]

(clears throat, picks up dice...)

You shall all send me ONE DOLLAR!

(rolls dice, hopes for open ended...)

Fails RR.  Gets out a dollar...but wait!  Don't have yamma's address.  Time passes, decides to devote dollar to paper to print out more character sheets.

jolt

[Right Wing Wacko]

...The point here IMHO is not simultaing reality, is the fact that in game terms either you give Influence skills the same "power" of all the other skills, allowing them to have some impact in the game, or there's no sense in having them.

Agreed.
Although in our games we let the PC make a RR (or appropriate skill check) and if he fails, then he is affected- be it skill or spell. Even if another PC is doing the casting (influencing). Everybody understands the why's and wherefore's so there is no arguing, but payback is a... well, you know
Although my players run a little low on the "role-playing" meter, they do make use of social skills, and usually quite cleverly...