Why I Never Allow Persuasion Rolls Between PC's - The Crooked Cleric

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It’s been a while since my last post, so I figured I’d give it another shot. This happened years ago now as well, if memory serves this was the second campaign I was ever a part of, and had not begun DMing myself yet. Dialogue is all mostly paraphrasing, as the events of this campaign happened roughly 4 years ago. You all know the drill by now, all names included here are fake. Here’s our list of characters.
Cassie: First time DM with a penchant for the Feywild.
Myself: Homebrew Warforged Artificer with very high INT and WIS
Troy: High INT Human Wizard
Issac: Kenku Rogue and first time player (This was actually Issac’s first game, not the one I had DM’d from my last post. I had almost forgotten this campaign due to reasons I’m sure you’ll understand soon.)
Amanda and Rachel: Centaur Bards (yes, plural) and the problem players for tonight’s story.
There were a few other party members, but none of them are particularly important to this story.
This campaign had been running for a long time at this point, focused around resurrecting a dead nature goddess before life started to die out on the Material/Mortal plane. Our party had been in the feywild for several sessions by now (which frankly everyone was sick of, but that’s a story for another day).
My first character, a Tiefling Monk, had recently left the party over trust issues, due to them attempting to sell him into magical slavery in order to convince a powerful fey enchanter to spare them, so naturally the DM needed to find a way to introduce my new character to the party. Cassie took this opportunity to allow a few new players to join the main party alongside my Artificer, flavoring it as two parties teaming up. This is where Amanda and Rachel both joined the campaign, alongside a Satyr Paladin and my Artificer.

In the session that ensued, Amanda and Rachel quickly made themselves the centers of attention. No problem, I thought, that’s just what bards tended to do. However, this would soon morph into insisting they were going to both lead the party and that we were all going to do as they said. This is frankly a ridiculous request to make in D&D at all, let alone to a 8 person party. Amanda in particular grew increasingly heated and frustrated with the majority of players not being ok with this, arguing for about 20 minutes and completely deadlocking any progress that was to be made in the campaign.

This continued until we all heard Rachel giggle to herself, as she interjected to narrate how her Bard bursts into a song about how stupid the party was, and how they needed to let “the two actually smart ones” take the lead. Obviously most of the party was not particularly concerned at this point, until we heard Cassie speak. The conversation went something like this:

Cassie: “…Alright, Rachel as you begin to sing to the party, make me a persuasion check.”

Troy: “Wait, what? Why would tha-“

Amanda, cutting Troy off: “Ooh! My Bard will join Rachel’s in song, so she gets advantage!”

Troy: “Why would that sound any more sensible in song form? Is the song magical? If so, I cast counterspe-“

Cassie, also cutting Troy off: “Alright then Rachel, go ahead and roll persuasion on the party with advantage. Anyone wanting to contest this, roll your own persuasions.”

This got me pretty frustrated, to say the least. The reason I mentioned I was playing a Homebrew Artificer is because the class hadn’t officially entered D&D 5e yet, and this Homebrew variant was based on wisdom. My character had double proficiency bonuses in Insight and a 20 in WIS. If anyone could sniff out bullshit, it was her...

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