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That's one of the places you're going wrong. the player isn't initiating any check to determine trustworthiness. He's asking for a...

And that part is really the key. As the DM I have billions of NPCs to play. If the PCs successfully use intimidation against one of...

They don't. The DM can and does have the ability to say your persuasion does not work. If you walk into a merchant and tell me that you...

Well, you've just gotten rid of the player. You should probably the news to your group before the next session to save them the trip.

I don't think they need to behave differently. Or, rather, I think they will all behave differently but I mean not all PCs will behave...

Hmm....maybe. In my own experience, as a player I feel like I'm "there" in the story, making decisions as if I'm my character. When...

This is the flaw of treating the PCs and NPCs symmetrically, because you are right, the GM knows whether or not the PC is "lying"...

I’ll tell you what: for a tongue-tied GM with no acting or entertaining or storytelling or social skills…THAT strawman GM should just...

Okay, I know it's been done a thousand times, but I've started enjoying a lot of the rules I'm seeing in games like Dragonbane...

Yes, but you cannot be genuinely tricked of something you actually know not to be true. Like I have explained this to you dozen times...

That certainly helps! But things of course can be represented in different ways, not necessarily by acting, it can be also via evocative...

The thing is this: "A NPC rolled 26 on their joke telling roll." Did you laugh? Sure, you can pretend it was funny and force a fake...

As a DM I find DCs to be useful because I don't really know how my hastily sketched NPCs would respond, and because I know what the PCs...

They do, but ultimately it is the GM who assigns them. And they can also say that some things are so easy that they automatically...

In my experience most players lean into the story and voluntarily have their characters make at least some bad decisions, without being...