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Message: <blockquote data-quote="borc killer" data-source="post: 1233957" data-attributes="member: 14151">hehe everyone always makes this stuff harder than it is.When you Bluff you are trying to get something past someone for some reason... be that telling your boss a little white lie or trying to talk a dragon into letting you go.  You roll the bluff check and if you roll a 2 and have no skill in it then in the game your face turns red and you studier a bit... just means you are bad at lying or you might have been caught off guard by the question.Then the person makes a since motive check to see how they interpret your body language... if they roll a 1 and have no skill in it then they must think you are just embarrassed about it and did not really want to talk about it.All this just happens as a normal part of the conversation... not actions or anything... just as it would in real life.All this mechanic does is add a bit of randomness to wither the NPC believes your lie or not... remember that not everyone can lie... and not everyone can spot a lie easily in real life... so it should be the same in the game and this is an easy way to do it.  Now you could just have the player take 10 on a white lie and be done with it... but someone that is good at lying would have skill points in bluff… that is the point of skill points… to show what your PC is good at.*shrug* Borc Killer</blockquote>