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To be clear, I'm talking broadly, though something similar should be possible to implement in most games. And yeah, I don't consider...

It doesn't have to be him, and it doesn't have to be any specific reason beyond "Heroes are not intimidated". It can be a lot of ways...

That gets back to the "you can only get on the ride if you're this tall" approach, which is, if you can't properly do intimidating...

On the other hand the GM is expected to do a lot of firewalling of NPC intentions and his awareness anyway, and if he can't do that this...

Clearly this approach has to have limits, though. If a monster has, say, a fear aura, as a player it is your agreement to acknowledge it...

Are you under the impression I care about what D&D 5e does here (or really anywhere)? In regard to what I'm talking about (note my...

Well, there are simply game systems and GMs that don't use social rolls at all. Not what I want, but they do have the virtue of...

Well, that's all I'm recommending for. That seems to be a critique directed at Intimidate as a skill in general, which I'll flat out...

The problem is, you appear to be good with mental and social actions to be all about the player's play, and not about the character's...

Well, that's partly assuming some kind of metacurrency is present too, though. By itself they don't let you do that.

"Wrong" is doing heavy lifting there. I wouldn't say its so much "wrong" is its difficult to see any benefit it provides to make up for...

I always say the only real difference is you can more easily bake in special/critical results in the D100.

Depends what you mean by "interrogate". Do I evaluate them in context of other mechanics and what benefit they seem to supply? Yes...

My view is just that PCs shouldn't be a privledged set in regard to how social skills interact with them; but that doesn't mean it needs...

You're apparently under the impression I think completely disconnecting them from character abilities is okay either. I don't. (And if...