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Imagine a "pick lock" ability in which it was assumed that, if you failed to pick the lock, you would no longer desire to open the door...

I was just thinking about this example yesterday. I have never heard of anybody suggestion that the PCs should make a party-wide...

C'mon. That doesn't mean anything. If you had a player who kept proposing crazy things and saying, "There's no RAW saying I can't!"...

Seriously, go read the pages 244 and 245 of 5.9 DMG. Do you seriously and honestly think that it is a reasonable interpretation that the...

Micah has argued many times for PC <--> NPC symmetry. ("What's good for the goose...") So if the GM decides what chance a PC action...

I play a lot of RPGs with mechanical social skills. They don't fail.

The above scenario makes sense to me. I find that when things happen with NPCs I care about (in good or bad ways) then I am emotionally...

"The orc growls at you ferociously, and his guards stamp their spears." Interpret however you like, at your own risk. (If you think...

So at least in 5.0 there is somewhat concrete guidance on how to apply ability checks in social situation on pages 244 and 245 of the...

Ultimately it's all up to the GM, right? And "players decide for their characters" is RAW. There's no applicable RAW that overrides that.

Um, it's both. Sure, a lot of RAI. But there is absolutely zero RAW to support NPCs "using social skills" on players. I mean, the...

If we're talking 5e, do the rules say they can be used on PCs? The PHB states that players decide what their characters think and do...

Uh, no? Intimidation is a real thing, and you can represent it in the game world by describing how a character tries to intimidate...

Yes. I get that you house rule social skills to work on PCs. I would not play in your game. From a RAW standpoint I am not wrong...

Neither does your NPC convincing my PC of something he can't be convinced of.