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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...

So you think that because Sauron was intimidated by the entire Numenorean army, that if Sam walked up and tried to intimidate him, there...

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...

You're conflating the player with the character. They are two very different things. The player has that level of control over the...

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...

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...

Hey, we agree on something! Although probably not on what we do about it. In my case it's "roll dice less often!"

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...

I suggest no such thing. Your character can be a rat-catcher that dies at the next kobold fight. But the player still has only one...

Well, yes, that's because they were actually a threat at the time, and he knew it. They weren't first level fighters and he rolled badly.

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

Yes, the reverse is also true. Attempts to intimidate are not fear spells. Attempts to know if somebody is lying are not detect lie...