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That's because you don't fundamentally believe in Intimidation (or I'd assume most other social skills) as a real thing. Without that...

If you want people to buy your game, I agree with you. If you just want people to play it, then it's a matter of finding folks willing...

And if the orc used Intimidate on your character, wouldn't your feel intimidated just as much as the orc would if the situation was...

Then they'd presumably have made the resistance roll.

Bloodlines is good if you like political intrigue (which I do), and I agree on the Thrawn books and Disney comics (those I've read).

I've heard good things about Lost Stars. Disney era comics good reputation, novels very poor generally. After a decade theres no...

I guess you and I want different things from Star Wars then (not really a surprise) 😉. I want to create the physical/supernatural...

Not relevant to my mind. Why should that matter? How does that justify ignoring the situation your PC is in because the Player doesn't...

And I would accept that, if the response by the PC didn't so very often end up avoiding anything detrimental to the PC's situation...

Monster of the Week is the only game of that sort I have played and enjoyed, twice in fact. Still not a fan of the system, and would...

Presumably they'd indicated existed as a houserule well before it comes up. If not, well, springing houserules on the fly is never a...

Yes? My points have been entirely about not buying the permises your preferences are based on. Which shouldn't be a surprise, or I...

See, the problem I have with that is that I don't believe PCs and NPCs are significantly different, and thus they shouldn't IMO be...

Understandable. I'd rather just have the dice apply in some fashion to both sides though.

I think playing your character in line with what they are experiencing in the imaginary world of play, modulated by the rules of play...