Ah, diplomacy roles. Making half-assed arguments irrefutable beacons of science fact.

I love making Diplomonsters who can sell snow to eskimos, have the princesses of 2 nations get in a bar fight over a date or convince the red dragon that he really does want to join the lawful good church as a vow of poverty monk and that he would be much happier without that pile of money.

Ah, but not all snow is created equal!
Just come on up and get a feel for MY top-quality snow!
Unlike powder-snow that will simply crumble under your touch, or wet snow that would soak through your clothes as you try to work with it, MY snow stays in the shape you need WHILE staying dry enough you could store books in it!
Don't waste hours trying to get the perfect mix, only to have it all melt, just come on up and purchase some top-quality snow for a cheap, cheap price!


See? It's entirely reasonable to be able to sell snow to eskimos if you're at all competent as a snake-oil salesman.
At least to less-than-competent eskimos, and I assure you that most places you go, people will be less-than-competent in at least one subject they require to live (after all, not everyone needs to know how to build houses)

Can is not should. Unless you're evil, I guess. (Githyanki: worth the level adjustment!) Aside from the first one (apparently I'm the good twin this week) I approve of those immensely.

That argument wasn't half assed; I mean, did you hear his tone?

That was the first time Luke didn't blatantly fail a diplomacy check, or sangi could have a will of six. I am going with the latter.

Considering that Sanji is driven by his impulses and obsessions (a woman is CRYING?! RAGE MODE ACTIVATE! A pretty lady? CHARM MODE ACTIVATE! etc.) I could believe the low willpower score.

On the other hand, he has no problem beating up anyone who isn't a lady when they're being stupid.

They showed his character sheet a few pages back. Unless he's magically gained several levels in the last few minutes, it was either 10 or 11, so a modifier of Zero

I protest! WHERE IS THE DIPLOMACY DICE?!?!?!!?

Finally he makes a Diplomacy roll that ISN'T designed to initiate immediate combat.

Right. One can only assume the combat he intends to start is when the other chefs chew him out for giving free food. Little does he know that Zeff is actually running a secret underground soup kitchen.

Having nowhere else to turn, Zeff set it up with mob money. But time is running out. They already took his legs because he couldn't pay them back. Turns out that soup kitchens don't bring in a lot of money.

But maybe Luffy will get a chance for combat after they come to break Zeff's legs. Well. His peg legs. Really no one is thinking this through very well on any side.

Hmm... if a campaign I'm playing gets too combat-deprived, methinks I'll now engineer a combat sitch by opening a soup kitchen with mob money in bad faith and taking on the whole mob when they try to collect. Thanks for the idea!

After cooling down about the lose of the diplomacy dice...

why does no one say something about Dan & Robin? I like how they just stand there and comment "Nah, our friends will help him" after hearing how absolutely NOT their friends are going to help XD
I love these kind of metagaming/rollplaying moments

They're playing IC. ICly they don't know what is happening inside.

I see Luke decided not to use his special Diplomacy die for this one.

Actual Diplomacy?!?! Sacrilege!!

Funny that the one time he don't sabotage his diplomacy roll, he actually roll pretty good.