Demons_eye
2009-11-20, 05:18 PM
So I have a question about the ability of bluff.
In a game I was playing I was playing changling for a race and he got board so he changed into an old man to tell stories about when he was a kid. The DM straight told me:
"And I'm going to assume [Character] is just showing off his shapechanging and improv abilities, since there aren't anywhere near enough people on the airship for him to make anything close to an effective disguise"
And I did not understand so I asked "What I don’t get it?"
His reply was "On the disguise issue: The problem with you attempting a disguise is everyone's accounted for, and people don't come and go on the small ship as they please. So, when the Changling is missing, and suddenly there's an old dude with only a 26-year scope of the world, there's no secret as to whom he really is... No Disguise check can pull that off."
And I did not understand. I only changed into an old man to make it more believable that I was one. What did my life span/Disguise check have to do with me lying about some old guy telling random stories?
If his sole Problem was eery one was accounted for I would still have a small one but would go along with it. As it was his main problem, IMHO, was that I could not lie without living to be an old man.
Was I to over the top and pushed the fabrics of lying or was I right that your "scope of the world" has nothing to do with lying?
In a game I was playing I was playing changling for a race and he got board so he changed into an old man to tell stories about when he was a kid. The DM straight told me:
"And I'm going to assume [Character] is just showing off his shapechanging and improv abilities, since there aren't anywhere near enough people on the airship for him to make anything close to an effective disguise"
And I did not understand so I asked "What I don’t get it?"
His reply was "On the disguise issue: The problem with you attempting a disguise is everyone's accounted for, and people don't come and go on the small ship as they please. So, when the Changling is missing, and suddenly there's an old dude with only a 26-year scope of the world, there's no secret as to whom he really is... No Disguise check can pull that off."
And I did not understand. I only changed into an old man to make it more believable that I was one. What did my life span/Disguise check have to do with me lying about some old guy telling random stories?
If his sole Problem was eery one was accounted for I would still have a small one but would go along with it. As it was his main problem, IMHO, was that I could not lie without living to be an old man.
Was I to over the top and pushed the fabrics of lying or was I right that your "scope of the world" has nothing to do with lying?