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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 7141640" data-attributes="member: 67338"><p>I have a major issue with auto fails...</p><p></p><p>The example in question is intimidation. So how do I rule who can and can not be intimidated? Can the soldier? Can the guard? Can the little girl who just came out of the wonder woman movie? </p><p></p><p>The question actually has multi parts... lets break it down. What is intimidation?</p><p></p><p>not much help... what does it mean to be intimidated?</p><p></p><p></p><p>ok, a bit better, to overawe someone especially in order to make them do what one wants...</p><p></p><p>so how can we decide how well someone does this? I mean unless the target can't be...I suppose emotionless targets can't be...but if someone isn't in some supernatural way immune, how can anyone be certain of what it would take to overawe them?</p><p></p><p>edit<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />My phone posted too soon)</p><p></p><p>so the counter example is "What do you tell players that want to shoot the moon with a bow"</p><p>my answer is normally "Do you have the range of that bow?"</p><p></p><p>see the rules set up some things as "can" and others as "can't" (say shooting the moon being out of range)</p><p></p><p>heck I know in 3.5 there was a prestige class that let you make your range anything you can see...in witch case they could shoot the moon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 7141640, member: 67338"] I have a major issue with auto fails... The example in question is intimidation. So how do I rule who can and can not be intimidated? Can the soldier? Can the guard? Can the little girl who just came out of the wonder woman movie? The question actually has multi parts... lets break it down. What is intimidation? not much help... what does it mean to be intimidated? ok, a bit better, to overawe someone especially in order to make them do what one wants... so how can we decide how well someone does this? I mean unless the target can't be...I suppose emotionless targets can't be...but if someone isn't in some supernatural way immune, how can anyone be certain of what it would take to overawe them? edit:(My phone posted too soon) so the counter example is "What do you tell players that want to shoot the moon with a bow" my answer is normally "Do you have the range of that bow?" see the rules set up some things as "can" and others as "can't" (say shooting the moon being out of range) heck I know in 3.5 there was a prestige class that let you make your range anything you can see...in witch case they could shoot the moon. [/QUOTE]
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