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Sticks and stones will break your bones and words will fucking kill you (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm okay with a DM ruling that it's possible to cast it in such a way that someone is taken off guard, sure. Maybe a performance or deception vs hostile creature(s) insight rather than the typical stealth vs perception when determining surprise from sneaking, which is not RAW, but I think sounds reasonable. I'd definitely not consider it to be an automatic aspect of the spell at any table I ran.

And you absolutely could not avoid a fight and just walk away from the situation with plausible deniability because you "only insulted them".

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

And you absolutely could not avoid a fight and just walk away from the situation with plausible deniability because you “only insulted them”.

If you offend someone so hard that there's a possibility of physical harm and/or death from it, and that person survives that insult, I'm quite sure most people wouldn't just let that slide.