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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9063296" data-attributes="member: 6801845">Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Asking for an insight check means that you, as a player, may not believe the NPC but aren't sure if your PC picks it up.  Sometimes it's just something just doesn't seem to fit in the story, perhaps there's missing information, something the PC isn't saying.  There are many, many reasons to ask for insight.  Fishing for information?  Not really one of them.But even if, heaven forefend, someone is just fishing.  So what?  If you're trying to solve a mystery there are going to be times when you just have to ask the dumb question, review the situation, think on what is happening and what you've seen. I don't have an adversarial relationship with my players (although the NPC might) so of course I'm going to help them out.  I'll do it by giving them clues to the target's emotional state, which is what insight is designed to infer.  There's no reason to withhold that.</blockquote>