Quote Originally Posted by neonchameleon View Post
2: What a boring and anti-immersive way of handling things. Any half-way decent set of RPG rules makes disguising yourself an emissary of Blipbloppool effectively equivalent to disguising yourself as a human prince.
Yes, and so does 4E.

You're praising the SC rules for what happened in that encounter, but they didn't do that. Your DM did. So praise your DM for it, not the rulebook.