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That social skills used on a PC deprive the player of agency.

This sounds like you are saying that if the roll is successful, that it by default turns something the character would never do into...

Interestingly enough the PC had suspected the use of Detect Thoughts/ESP at the meeting (he uses it himself sometimes) and he had...

This kind of thing is always going to be difficult to adjudicate, and tends to fall between multiple stools. Personally, if an NPC were...

A PC was negotiating with NPCs in Sigil. One of the NPCs used Detect Thoughts which allows one to pick up surface thoughts for free...

If the PCs have in-fiction reason to know or think there's a time crunch, then sure. Where it would get really interesting would be if...

I don't know what that is.

Er, no. It's true as soon as I make my character. It's MY character, not the DMs. I get to decide what parts are true and what parts...

Yes, added an edit before you posted, but after you grabbed the quote: Assuming a healthy group setting.

We only have that veto power if it's built in like you did. If it exists, I couldn't care less about social skills being used against...

The issue remains, the roll is the mistake. Who rolls it is irrelevant. Anytime we use mechanics to bludgeon players into acting in a...

You want to sweep the problem under the rug? I know my characters in ways that the DM cannot possibly know, and he will know much more...

Those few NPCs that I know as well as a player knows a PC, can have things that no PC can convince them to do or not do. There will be...

If the NPC persuades the PC to do something the PC would never do, the player can ignore it and do something else? Because there is no...

100% isn't a tiny bit of control. For that period, the player has no agency at all. He is forced to do the bidding of the die roll.