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Message: <blockquote data-quote="taliesin15" data-source="post: 4594560" data-attributes="member: 22058">Motive IMHO is more than just whether someone is lying to the King or not. This is one where I really try to play up a character's alignment. Especially since alignments seldom get deeply into questions of morals or ethics during the game. "This person is looking out for #1" or "this Ranger seems very formidable but seems to have the good of the community in mind" or "this well dressed man is smiling at you but you think he is playing you for a fool" etc.One further thing you can do as a DM is if the character rolls successfully, but just barely, you don't say they Sense the other person is lying, but rather that they revealed a "tell" or "feint" or "blinked"--as commentators in televised Poker Tournaments will put it in those high stakes games of Bluffing and Sensing Motive.</blockquote>