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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7788920" data-attributes="member: 6919838">"As noted, Insight has much broader application than just whether an NPC is telling the truth. To me, it seems just as reasonable that Brog might want to ascertain whether Ned is hostile toward the party, or whether Ned seems afraid."So, do you require different and discrete phrasings from the player for their charscter for observing the "insert text ftom insight skill" depending on whether its vs say lies vs hostility vs fear?So, here is the thing, if each of those things is discernable by an insight check, each of those redolvable by some measure of insight vs deception, each of those in game world achieved by looking at, listening to and observing the "insert line of text from the insight skill write- up" - why foes the player need to specify his "intent" or which is being looked for?You and the player knew the observer, you knew the observed target and you knew the skills bring used - so why as GM would you need to know he was looking specifically for hostility vs fear vs lies? I mean, if the gm describes a sound from down an alley and the character looks down the alley, do they have to run some 20 question "I look down the alley for orcs" then "I look down the alley for rats" then... until the manage to ask not just to be looking but guess the right thing?Seems to me, and it plays this way in my game, that if the merchant is intent on deception and/or hostile and/or afraid and/or exceptionally aroused cuz he was just interrupted mid-adult-fun-time as GM I would just give those as answers depending on the results of the one check.I mean, you are correct that insight does more than just reveal or dust out lies but I myself dont get where one gains benefit in play by not giving out whatever the skill can determine without making the player guess what they will "find out" in their query. The NPC is showing signs of ABC etc whether the player happened to figure that into their query just like the alley would have a cave troll whether or not the character looked for an orc or a cat. In my guy if a character examines a painting "with an arcans skill" I give them whatever info thst skill might provide, which would be different from say an investigation skill or an history check. Course that answer might be "there is nothing about runes or magical significance."Edit to expand a point.But, I guess yo me the reason it seems (back to the OP) this gets a lot more traction here on message boards rather than FTF is that in real games played at tables there is almost always z context. I cannot think of a time when someone said "I make an insight check" and it wasnt obvious from the immediate proceedings what the "intent was" in any way that impacted the resolution and narration of those results. White room throrycrafting and message boards often seem to mostly bypass the context of the scene, the actual dialog and tone and timing that in actual play exist already.</blockquote>

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