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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4204510" data-attributes="member: 40961">I must have missed the place where skill challenges were declared to be mandatory for use by all DMs in all situations.On one hand, I totally respect your decision to remove social skills from the game.&nbsp; I've played RPGs that didn't have social skill systems, and they worked just fine.That said, I don't get your reasoning.&nbsp; There's a big difference between &quot;everyone can just decide&quot; to ignore your intimidation, and acknowledging that different people respond to threats differently based upon context, and that a particular set of PCs may not have any leverage with which to intimidate a particular landed noble into performing a specific task.&nbsp; This is &quot;just deciding&quot; to ignore the Intimidate skill in the same sense that telling a PC that there's nothing in the room big enough to hide behind is &quot;just deciding&quot; to ignore his Stealth skill.&nbsp; Skills are used in context of the gameworld, and sometimes the gameworld doesn't facilitate the use of a particular skill.&nbsp; That's why you get more than one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4204510, member: 40961"] I must have missed the place where skill challenges were declared to be mandatory for use by all DMs in all situations. On one hand, I totally respect your decision to remove social skills from the game. I've played RPGs that didn't have social skill systems, and they worked just fine. That said, I don't get your reasoning. There's a big difference between "everyone can just decide" to ignore your intimidation, and acknowledging that different people respond to threats differently based upon context, and that a particular set of PCs may not have any leverage with which to intimidate a particular landed noble into performing a specific task. This is "just deciding" to ignore the Intimidate skill in the same sense that telling a PC that there's nothing in the room big enough to hide behind is "just deciding" to ignore his Stealth skill. Skills are used in context of the gameworld, and sometimes the gameworld doesn't facilitate the use of a particular skill. That's why you get more than one. [/QUOTE]

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