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Huh. Interesting responses so far.
I'm with jrowland and ad-hoc. It never would even have occurred to me to play that way, except for a couple of comments in other threads. In my view, those skills exist solely to be used "on" NPCs, with the rationale that asking the DM to roleplay NPC reactions to PCs is a sort of conflict of interest: the DM should be a neutral arbiter (or even a cheerleader for the heroes) so whether an NPC is deceived, intimidated, or persuaded should just be resolved with a die roll. But PCs have their players looking out for their best interests, and can therefore be roleplayed.
I'm with jrowland and ad-hoc. It never would even have occurred to me to play that way, except for a couple of comments in other threads. In my view, those skills exist solely to be used "on" NPCs, with the rationale that asking the DM to roleplay NPC reactions to PCs is a sort of conflict of interest: the DM should be a neutral arbiter (or even a cheerleader for the heroes) so whether an NPC is deceived, intimidated, or persuaded should just be resolved with a die roll. But PCs have their players looking out for their best interests, and can therefore be roleplayed.