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Is your position that we need to examine previous editions for rules that carry over because they weren't expressly repudiated?And nothing indicates in any way that they've abandoned that for 5e. The best you can say is that even though the social interaction rules heavily imply that they are only to be used against NPCs, they don't explicitly say that. Nothing at all supports their use against PCs. There's not one example of it anywhere in any official 5e book.