Social Manoeuvring in D&D: a new system
10 min readJan 3, 2019
Dungeons & Dragons is not, by and large, a game frought with complex diplomacy and tense manipulations of hearts and minds. Starting with its 3rd edition, it has tended to possess multiple blunt social skills more or less along the lines of a reasoning option, a bullying option, and a lying option.
One can omit social finesse entirely and simply cast a spell…
