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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 758965" data-attributes="member: 1465">Finally someone has found the courage to say it!The use of Intimidate skill does not cause a character to be shaken, frightened or panicking, but rather simply changes someone's attitude towards the intimidating character.You cannot force a PC to be afraid against the player's will, unless you are using some mind-affecting spell or supernatural/spell-like ability (maybe also with extraordinary abilities).In the same way that you cannot force a PC to believe a lie even if he fails a Sense Motive check, and in fact in the case he fails you just don't tell him he recognizes the lie, while if he succeed he "spots" the liar. But even if you tell him that the liar seems perfectly sincere (whether because he is or because the PC failed the SM check) you cannot force the player to act in a specific way.Of course, good roleplayers will play accordingly, and the DM is free to reward them, but that's beyond the Intimidate skill, which is in fact basically a PC's skill and not a NPC's skill.</blockquote>