Secular Smite them back, easy.
DragonTypeWyvern
joined 2 years ago
What if I were to tell you that skill checks critting is already a dumb house rule?
It's a racist, sexist rape fantasy simulator.
Yeah, basically a complete listing of the kind of "jokes" edgy internet dweebs made and then checked to see the reaction before they decided if they meant it or not.
5th dimensional bussy
Yes it is
Redo of Healer posting
Aw, they care about my history 💝
They suck then. Tell them their skills are inferior.
Every edition since at least 3.0.
In the sections describing how skills work and what circumstances you should allow checks for them, and the sections describing bonuses to those checks, what the role of the DMs and players are, including several very specific references to how character attitudes are very important to the DCs of those checks and the fact that skills only affect those attitudes in the first place and they aren't mind control.
In other words, the whole fucking thing.
It could be, but it doesn't have to be. It all depends on the characters involved.
The DM can referee in the dispute but they (usually) can't say your character would or wouldn't believe something.
A good DM might ask you to in-character justify your bias, for example. They're also supposed to listen if you say "I don't trust Count Fuckface on account of him having a history of being a Fuckface and also he's standing over a cooling corpse with bloody hands."
If a player is metagaming that's a separate problem from their character being biased, or having a reasonably justified suspicion or whatever.
Or never, ever being interested in the creepy player's character because they don't like their vibes.
Or stuff it in a bag of holding!