EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
This one is trickier than Perception, because Perception is a solo, "personal" act, something anyone should be able to at least give a general description of. E.g., if you've just entered a room and I tell you there's a bookshelf and a broken table, you ask about the bookshelf and the broken table. "Is there dust? Are there any books left? What does the floor look like? Has the table been broken for a long time, or does it look recent?" Etc. This isn't stuff that requires specialist knowledge or "performing," it's literally just...asking questions about what you're seeing.
Persuasion, on the other hand, is very personal. It depends on the speaker, the subject, the recipient, a bunch of things. It's much easier to describe what you want to do, how you'd like to sound, than it is to actually do that thing or sound that way. Being persuasive is, very simply, a hell of a lot more difficult IRL than looking at, listening to, or otherwise sensing for things.
So, while I still would not accept "I roll persuasion...18. Does he do what I want?", I will accept it if people talk me through what they're trying to do, even if they don't feel confident or capable enough to actually act out the things being said. I 100% get feeling shy and not being sure if you can "live up to" how Cool and Awesome and Smooth and Compelling your character is supposed to be. I know what stage fright feels like. So if you just want to talk it out, rather than belt out a soliloquy on demand? Cool. I'm fine with that.
But we have to actually talk it out. That part isn't negotiable.
Persuasion, on the other hand, is very personal. It depends on the speaker, the subject, the recipient, a bunch of things. It's much easier to describe what you want to do, how you'd like to sound, than it is to actually do that thing or sound that way. Being persuasive is, very simply, a hell of a lot more difficult IRL than looking at, listening to, or otherwise sensing for things.
So, while I still would not accept "I roll persuasion...18. Does he do what I want?", I will accept it if people talk me through what they're trying to do, even if they don't feel confident or capable enough to actually act out the things being said. I 100% get feeling shy and not being sure if you can "live up to" how Cool and Awesome and Smooth and Compelling your character is supposed to be. I know what stage fright feels like. So if you just want to talk it out, rather than belt out a soliloquy on demand? Cool. I'm fine with that.
But we have to actually talk it out. That part isn't negotiable.