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Should Insight be able to determine if an NPC is lying?
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<blockquote data-quote="Warmaster Horus" data-source="post: 7590606" data-attributes="member: 6785438"><p>When I DM I have the following method...</p><p></p><p>PC Insight equal to or less than NPC Deception = Roll 1d6, on even "You're pretty sure they're not telling the truth about something", on odd "You're pretty sure they're telling you the truth".</p><p>PC Insight beats NPC Deception = Roll 1d6 for fun. "You're pretty sure they're not telling the truth about something." or "You're pretty sure they're telling you the truth." based on what they're really doing.</p><p></p><p>I will often impose advantage/disadvatage on both sides of the equation without telling the players what my decision is and with straight up +5/-5 adjustments to regular rolls rather than allowing 2d20. The PC can describe the circumstances they want to have for questioning and I'll acknowledge but won't let them know if that's advantageous or not. For example if the questioner is an elf and the deceiver is an orc, the elf might make their check at Disadvantage (-5) and if the orc knows their tribe is nearby and will likely find them soon they might make their check at Advantage (+5). So even if the elf rolls an 18 it's still possible for the orc to beat them even if they only rolled an 8 (assuming no other modifiers).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warmaster Horus, post: 7590606, member: 6785438"] When I DM I have the following method... PC Insight equal to or less than NPC Deception = Roll 1d6, on even "You're pretty sure they're not telling the truth about something", on odd "You're pretty sure they're telling you the truth". PC Insight beats NPC Deception = Roll 1d6 for fun. "You're pretty sure they're not telling the truth about something." or "You're pretty sure they're telling you the truth." based on what they're really doing. I will often impose advantage/disadvatage on both sides of the equation without telling the players what my decision is and with straight up +5/-5 adjustments to regular rolls rather than allowing 2d20. The PC can describe the circumstances they want to have for questioning and I'll acknowledge but won't let them know if that's advantageous or not. For example if the questioner is an elf and the deceiver is an orc, the elf might make their check at Disadvantage (-5) and if the orc knows their tribe is nearby and will likely find them soon they might make their check at Advantage (+5). So even if the elf rolls an 18 it's still possible for the orc to beat them even if they only rolled an 8 (assuming no other modifiers). [/QUOTE]
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