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And what I'm saying is that if NPCs cannot use social skills to hyperbolically "mind control" PCs, then I think the reverse should also...

The PC is in the world. Everything they know and everything that can affect them and drives their responses IMO should come from the...

The NPC played by the GM is just as "real" as the PC played by the Player.

Player agency is vital to the game but also delicate in times of interpretation. To preserve that agency, features that compel any kind...

I would have thought the bolded was a non-negotiable fact of life. You declare it, you do it. No take-backs. Even more so in older...

There's a surprisingly short distance between the two bolded bits here, at least in my eyes. The very term"cinematic combat" brings to...

Like it or not, though, the rules to a large extent determine the types of decisions the PCs (and by extension, their players) are...

No matter what the form of fiction, that fiction forms the reality in which that fiction's characters live; and it's up to the game to...

Why on earth would a group of PCs with any sense of self-preservation want to make a combat the least bit more challenging (i.e...

i very much disagree with this playstyle of 'my character will always think exactly and only what i want them to think, that i have...

Does the contrary also apply? Eg a first level fighter can't Intimidate a pit fiend? But what about bluffing? Perhaps a first level...

So what's actually going around the character doesn't matter if the player doesn't like it?

That's because you don't fundamentally believe in Intimidation (or I'd assume most other social skills) as a real thing. Without that...

And if the orc used Intimidate on your character, wouldn't your feel intimidated just as much as the orc would if the situation was...

Then they'd presumably have made the resistance roll.