Considering the recent litigation in which Google apparently claimed that all the emails, all the data in them, are Google's property and can do with the data whatever they want, I get frequent questions from our employees how does this translate into Gmail for business which we're using. Is the data in our corporate account also Google's property?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/14/google_cloud_users_have_no_legitimate_expectation_of_privacy/


Question: What is inspiration?
Answer: You asked what's it good for? 

As a DM I've often struggled with players who may prefer to meta-game rather than react to a situation in character. For some groups a very tactical, min-max play style may be fine--but for other groups the DM may want to encourage playing in character.

This mechanic gives the DM a nice discretionary tool to reward play that may be out of the tactical norm but might be a TON of fun for the group. 

For more information see page 35 of the D&amp;D Basic Rules.