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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7811498" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>That’s not really a thing I’ve encountered in actual play, that I can remember. But, provided the action was declared in terms of a clear goal and approach, I would resolve it like any other action, by evaluating if it seems possible for the approach to achieve the goal, to fail to achieve the goal, and what the cost or consequences for failing might be, and adjudicate accordingly. If I could not glean a clear goal and approach, I would ask for clarification.</p><p></p><p></p><p>No problem <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" data-shortname=":grin:" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well I’m not Ovinomancer, but that seems like a sufficiently clear action declaration to me. The approach of bringing up the subject the my want information about and paying attention to the contacts body language seems to me like it would have a reasonable chance of succeeding at achieving the goal of seeing if it startles him or otherwise causes him discomfort. I’m not sure it has a reasonable chance of failing. Like, either they react with surprise or discomfort or they don’t, either way you have your answer. It is possible that the PC could misread the NPC’s reaction, but I prefer to assume PC competence, so I wouldn’t consider that a reasonable chance of failure unless the NPC wanted to hide their emotional reaction to the subject being brought up. So generally I would have that action succeed without a check. If for some reason the NPC did have a reason to want to hide that reaction, then I would probably ask the player to make a Wisdom check against the NPC’s passive Charisma (Deception). And if the player wanted to add Proficiency for Insight, I would allow that. The consequence here being the opportunity cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7811498, member: 6779196"] That’s not really a thing I’ve encountered in actual play, that I can remember. But, provided the action was declared in terms of a clear goal and approach, I would resolve it like any other action, by evaluating if it seems possible for the approach to achieve the goal, to fail to achieve the goal, and what the cost or consequences for failing might be, and adjudicate accordingly. If I could not glean a clear goal and approach, I would ask for clarification. No problem 😁 Well I’m not Ovinomancer, but that seems like a sufficiently clear action declaration to me. The approach of bringing up the subject the my want information about and paying attention to the contacts body language seems to me like it would have a reasonable chance of succeeding at achieving the goal of seeing if it startles him or otherwise causes him discomfort. I’m not sure it has a reasonable chance of failing. Like, either they react with surprise or discomfort or they don’t, either way you have your answer. It is possible that the PC could misread the NPC’s reaction, but I prefer to assume PC competence, so I wouldn’t consider that a reasonable chance of failure unless the NPC wanted to hide their emotional reaction to the subject being brought up. So generally I would have that action succeed without a check. If for some reason the NPC did have a reason to want to hide that reaction, then I would probably ask the player to make a Wisdom check against the NPC’s passive Charisma (Deception). And if the player wanted to add Proficiency for Insight, I would allow that. The consequence here being the opportunity cost. [/QUOTE]
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