I can confirm this to be correct.

You know, this would actually be rad if the DM started using it as a plot point. Extra-dimensional police start hunting the PC for multiverse-level crimes, or some dunamancer in another reality kills an NPC in the PCs’ reality to heal one of their friends, and the PCs have to do some dimension-hopping to hunt them down and get them to stop.

Meanwhile, "Let’s see… anthropomorphic mosquito… Let me see that ID. You’re 2 hours old? That checks out, here’s your bourbon.

Exactly that. I wish I was kidding.

This was pre-5e; we were playing 3.5e, where that’s actually an official thing you can do:

Changing others’ attitudes with Diplomacy generally takes at least 1 full minute (10 consecutive full-round actions). In some situations, this time requirement may greatly increase. A rushed Diplomacy check can be made as a full-round action, but you take a -10 penalty on the check.

They never really went into detail, their whole argument was that if you wanted to use Diplomacy, you did so by default at a -10 penalty (for doing it ‘rushed’), or it would guaranteed fail, for the above reason. :(

Strategically placed near every door, window, sewer pipe, and vent the DM put an Antimagic Field device.

I once played with someone who argued that Diplomacy would never be usable on any important person because, since it requires 1 minute of uninterrupted conversation to use, everyone who is important enough would have a jester or aid or someone they’d hire specifically to interrupt every conversation they were involved in every 9 rounds. Absolutely infuriating person to play with. This anecdote is completely unrelated to this post, but your suggestion just made me remember it again, and it irritated me all over again.

Fuck ‘clever’, this is brilliant.

I’m not from the EU and don’t have the context to really understand the history of this decision, but this just seems so unnecessarily divisive.