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2 and 3 are different skills, though. If they fail, intimidation can still work. (In the local lord's manor with the Tarrasque coming)...

It's always going to vary by DM in current iterations of the game but I try to mix it up. Depending on the NPC, persuasion may be...

And 112% will just invent percentages out of thin air to try and prove a point that isn't correct. There's no consistency in a TON of...

We tried codifying everything that "needed" it and got 3e, which is my favorite edition, but did make a lot of DMs and players feel...

sure, but i mean an actual, codified, morale system for it to interface with, rather than it being left to GMs to each individually...

We already have that in intimidation. Then great news! False. 1) And this is the big one. Lots of time it doesn't cause you harm...

Rereading this because of the necro, and I have to say this poster is WRONG. The most charitable reading of the bolded section of this...

Yeah. We don't alter it into a wildly different thing for the sake of convenience. What you want isn't intimidate. You want...

I bought the two new Forgotten Realms books with the alternate covers.

Book 4, Chapter 6: the Forbidden Pool Another rare error in this printing of the book, describing Sam surreptitiously following Frodo...

I think it's more than that here, though. Allowing free travel through Gondor virtually guarantees(from Faramir's point of view) that...

Not an error, just a bit of an archaic prose flourish.

Book 4, Chapter 1: the Taming of Sméagol Darkly amusing that for all his earlier fussing about needing rope, Sam nearly forgets about...

Elves sort of dwell partially in the spirit world and that connection fuels their creations as well. It's where their "magic" comes...

I haven't done any more reading yet, but I did want to talk about the Dunlendings and why I find them fascinating. This came after...