<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=289327.msg14240827#msg14240827">Quote from: Autocad on 29-06-2018, 08:01:19</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">No offense intended since you've apparently taken offense, but the message wasn't even directed at you in the first place, just letting our GM know that we do support and appreciate his work.<br/><br/>And personally I think that using bluff was a great, creative idea. <br/><br/>It's just that trying to squeeze it in as a free action in addition to two move actions by way of using talking is a free action that gives me pause.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Thank you for clarifying that you didn't intend it to be taken that way. Sorry if I overreacted. I took a short break in a really unpleasant day and when I saw the opportunity, thought I'd try something clever and fun. So I think I overreacted a bit when I later found it being argued about even though I thought I'd included a comment that I wasn't sure it'd work. I apologize.<br/><br/>Okay, I see. I would've responded much more positively to a post like 'Thank you for taking the time to look up and interpret rules when some of us aren't able to, we really support and appreciate that." It was the additional comment about the ruling on something in a way I didn't feel I was trying to 'squeeze' on that I found irritating.<br/><br/>As for the 'trying to squeeze it in,' I floated it from the start as an idea which I wasn't sure would work. Please see below.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">below</div><div class="spoiler_body">I wasn't clear in the IC-thread that I didn't know if that was acceptable. I posted the following:<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=289280.msg14240475#msg14240475">Quote from: Chanticleer on 29-06-2018, 04:15:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">[FREE]Shani licks Ishtar's hammer!<br/>[FREE-ISH???]Shani swats at Plötze's tail and urges Paan up the ramp after Tem.<br/>[I DON'T EVEN KNOW]Shani yells in PERFECTLY ACCENTED goblin, trying to BLUFF (NATURAL 20) the goblins above into thinking they face a large force and should run.<br/><div>Shani will follow Paan's mount southward 3 squares up the path.<br/>[MOVE]Shani will follow Paan's mount southward 3 squares up the path.</div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>The “free-ish” and “I don't even know” was to my way of thinking a slightly silly way of saying (but in hindsight admittedly unclear communication) that “I'm not sure how long this takes.”<br/><br/>The funny thing is that I wrote it in what I thought was a humorous way to suggest kind of a 'I know this may not work, but...' feel to it. Which I clearly failed to communicate as well as I thought I had.<br/><br/>My post in the OOC was much more clear:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=289327.msg14240477#msg14240477">Quote from: Chanticleer on 29-06-2018, 04:17:47</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Natural 20 on bluff roll. <br/><br/>This is Shaninera trying to be subtle...by starting a panicky stampede of goblins.<br/><br/>EDIT: I figured since the bluff is just a yell, it can happen whether Shani is moving or waiting for Paan to move. Yes? If not, and it's a move action in itself, then hey, she'll certainly sacrifice her own move in order to make that perfect little goblin-scream.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So in the IC I was terribly unclear, but in the OOC I made it (I think?) pretty clear that I was willing to sacrifice her movement that turn (which is all she was doing, other than the bluff attempt) to do so.<br/><br/>This was my admittedly unclear way of saying <em>'I don't know how long that takes, if she can do it and move, she will. If she can't do it and move, then she'll do it instead of moving.'</em><br/><br/>It was then pointed out that the minimum time to use Bluff to convince someone of something was 1 minute. I noted that I hadn't had my rulebooks available when I posted, and that I did think that was a little long for what was being said, and said so at that time. This was meant as an explanation, rather than an argument, but I wasn't clear about that, either. It was a long day. I also said at that time that I was okay with the GM's ruling, but I probably should've put that at the front of my explanation rather than the back.</div></div>