thread: 2011-05-18 : Ben Lehman: Rules and their Functions
On 2011-05-24, C. Edwards wrote:
Jay,
Regarding the climbing example, I've also seen this sort of thing in play where despite having low or no skill a character still comes to be regarded as good at the thing through repeated successful performance. Like, my character may have a low charisma and have no social skills to speak of but if I manage to repeatedly make high rolls and succeed in my social roll then my character gains a reputation (in the fiction AND among the players) as being a Romeo, or a diplomat, or whatever specific thing the social rolls entailed. Which in turn has an effect on when or if I need to make future social rolls of that type.
