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<blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 5806578" data-attributes="member: 63746"><p>We seem to perceive social skills differently. Rather than force someone into a specific set of actions (like Mind Trick), I see social skill as mostly emotion-based: they instill a (sometimes overwhelming) feeling of fear/attraction/calm/camaradery/etc -- and there you have no choice but to feel it. But what you do with this emotion afterwards will vary widely depending on the character and the exact situation. </p><p></p><p>In that vein and just to play devil's advocate, IF we were in a life and death situation AND facing ennemies/strangers, a direct attack might be an entirely reasonnable response to a critically successful Intimidate roll. Intimidate triggers fight or flight responses, and sometimes you get Fight (with, I'm hoping, a sizeable malus for the shaken nerves/recklessness involved). That's a successful intimidation attempt in my book. Most responses should fall well below that though, and I think Possum handled it very well in our fight with Ganga the Chevin gangboss for example.</p><p></p><p>I should definitively have specified Sloor was going for "Back off!" instead of "I will kill you!" though. You know what they say about "assume"... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm :-S" data-shortname=":-S" /></p><p></p><p>Other minutia:</p><p></p><p>I used that FP for the same reason we always use FPs: though he doesn't quite know it yet, this is something important to my PC.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Contrarely to Sloor who is stone cold sober. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> Also something to remember on your side of things. </p><p></p><p></p><p>And he decided NOT to play along? That's gotta be drunk logic, right?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well I don't know: when I read Possum's post I had a flash of Sloor suddenly finding himself walking into the dungeon with the others, his lower left hand sore for some reason and pausing mid-step... <span style="color: Plum">"I didn't say anything embarrasing back there, did I?"</span> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Gray"><Response Mack?></span></p><p></p><p>i.e. I could go for either version. Let us know what you prefer, Possum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Binder Fred, post: 5806578, member: 63746"] We seem to perceive social skills differently. Rather than force someone into a specific set of actions (like Mind Trick), I see social skill as mostly emotion-based: they instill a (sometimes overwhelming) feeling of fear/attraction/calm/camaradery/etc -- and there you have no choice but to feel it. But what you do with this emotion afterwards will vary widely depending on the character and the exact situation. In that vein and just to play devil's advocate, IF we were in a life and death situation AND facing ennemies/strangers, a direct attack might be an entirely reasonnable response to a critically successful Intimidate roll. Intimidate triggers fight or flight responses, and sometimes you get Fight (with, I'm hoping, a sizeable malus for the shaken nerves/recklessness involved). That's a successful intimidation attempt in my book. Most responses should fall well below that though, and I think Possum handled it very well in our fight with Ganga the Chevin gangboss for example. I should definitively have specified Sloor was going for "Back off!" instead of "I will kill you!" though. You know what they say about "assume"... :-S Other minutia: I used that FP for the same reason we always use FPs: though he doesn't quite know it yet, this is something important to my PC. Contrarely to Sloor who is stone cold sober. :p Also something to remember on your side of things. And he decided NOT to play along? That's gotta be drunk logic, right? Well I don't know: when I read Possum's post I had a flash of Sloor suddenly finding himself walking into the dungeon with the others, his lower left hand sore for some reason and pausing mid-step... [COLOR="Plum"]"I didn't say anything embarrasing back there, did I?"[/COLOR] :D [COLOR="Gray"]<Response Mack?>[/COLOR] i.e. I could go for either version. Let us know what you prefer, Possum. [/QUOTE]
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