Also, for an example of a "you can be more" diplomancing, I turn once more to Dragonflight's Mekton game that I played in for a while, where, with a page or so length speech that made all the other members go "wow" and a roll of about 45 on 1d10 where 10s add and roll again, my character talked a Mass Effect Reaper that crashed on a D&D world out of doing that whole mind control/genocide shtick when it could turn its vast abilities to guiding the society forming around it in a benevolent fashion. Daisuke was a Kamen Rider/Super Sentai hybrid MAGIC SPAAAACE PALADIN! who pulled some damn crazy stunts basically from the first day he joined the team*, but that is surely going to be the highlight of my gaming stories for a good long time.
* His first trick was actually fairly mundane but still notable, the party were sneaking (actually sneaking, with no explosions or spontaneous mecha battles or buster-class magic doombeams blasting out to the horizon! I swear, the literal pose-and-declaim, over the top melodramatic toku hero was the sneaky one in the group...) inside an enemy geofront and his super-armor was still in pieces from a rough insertion to the story, but he "transformed" by flipping the flashy geometric-patterned cloak around to the urban camo grey lining and hopped up onto a roof, then folded it around himself to look like an HVAC unit to fool some patrolling guards rather than duck into a doorway, alley, or (I think?) behind a dumpster like the others. Another time, he used illusion magic to make the enemy super-mecha appear to have exploded instead of being captured, then went straight to performing a pioneering de-cyborging surgery and regeneration of the integrated slave-pilot to allow him to return to a relatively normal life as a humanoid instead of a giant tunnel borer/snake-thing, while extracting the booby-trapped portal drive gizmo to get coordinates for the boss's asteroid base. No, that Persuade check was still the biggest crazy thing he pulled off, in a metaphorical ocean where there was always a bigger crazy thing.
* His first trick was actually fairly mundane but still notable, the party were sneaking (actually sneaking, with no explosions or spontaneous mecha battles or buster-class magic doombeams blasting out to the horizon! I swear, the literal pose-and-declaim, over the top melodramatic toku hero was the sneaky one in the group...) inside an enemy geofront and his super-armor was still in pieces from a rough insertion to the story, but he "transformed" by flipping the flashy geometric-patterned cloak around to the urban camo grey lining and hopped up onto a roof, then folded it around himself to look like an HVAC unit to fool some patrolling guards rather than duck into a doorway, alley, or (I think?) behind a dumpster like the others. Another time, he used illusion magic to make the enemy super-mecha appear to have exploded instead of being captured, then went straight to performing a pioneering de-cyborging surgery and regeneration of the integrated slave-pilot to allow him to return to a relatively normal life as a humanoid instead of a giant tunnel borer/snake-thing, while extracting the booby-trapped portal drive gizmo to get coordinates for the boss's asteroid base. No, that Persuade check was still the biggest crazy thing he pulled off, in a metaphorical ocean where there was always a bigger crazy thing.
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