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Literally no one. It's an insane bit of hyperbole.

For sure. Some of my players really like using the Icon Dice this way, and two others feel less comfortable...but I'll tell ya, the more those latter see the former doing it, the more they are willing to try. And you're right that it's easy enough to ignore.

Just wanted to say how much I agree with this, especially the bolded parts. I used to be that type of GM*, and the players (and myself!) had less fun. You are 100% right that learning to say "yes" is a skill, and it would be great if games gave solid advice on how to do so. "No" is easy...

Like, a skill check, for example?

Fail at what, exactly? EDIT: Ok, since @CreamCloud0 edited their post to include "sometimes your idea wasn't a valid one." I understand what they're trying to say now. It brings up the question about who determines validity, and I suspect I know what their answer would be, but that's another...

So it's not D&D, but in our 13th Age game, the use of Icon Relationships is a hard-wired mechanic in the game for the PCs to generate fiction (and more) into the ongoing narrative. Mechanically, the necromancer in our game once used an Icon Die with the Lich Kiing to capture some of the essence...

Ah, ok. I understood "facing off against" as a combat situation.

It's possible I'm not remembering the rules myself; isn't Coerce an out-of-combat ability?

I confess, I don't understand the bolded part. As for the shoves and such, I am pretty sure it's game balance. I am playing a fighter with a katana in Season of Ghosts AP and if there were no such limits, I'd be pretty OP at my level. YMMV. All this is just to say I don't find the difference...

Isn't that just following some real-world logic? Everyone who hears the lie gets a chance to believe it or see through it, but if I am only talking to one person, Coerce would be single-target.

Tracking down fey faceless kidnappers.

Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday

This is a game with multiple people around the table. The GM should know the rule for Coerce. If a player wants to have a character better at coercion, then they can look up the rules for doing so, and choose feats accordingly. Players can take ownership of their characters and character build.

Exactly. The rules work well as they are, as long as players know them.

Yeah...is it weird that I want to be more excited, but I just can't? Shouldn't the part of me that wants to be excited for it...just be excited?

I suppose theoretically that's true, but I haven't seen any people like that in this thread.

They are not the results of a random table.

Well, that's not what happened.

This exactly our 13th Age group, including Maptool, though we use Discord, not Skype. Really no need to hide that kind of stuff.

So WotC is protecting Ranger players from themselves?