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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moff_Tarkin" data-source="post: 4826826" data-attributes="member: 14175">In response to Anguish,First of all, a guard who has been ordered to not let half-lings in might not have to make a sense motive check. If you have one of those people who follows orders to the letter at all cost then there is no way a half-ling is getting by. You have to disguise him as a gnome or find another way in for him. It may not be clear to some people, but there are guys who follow orders like that, and that is the kind of guards I want.Another real life situation. Lets say you have a military guard that is told that any car driving up to a particular outpost without proper ID must be fired upon. One day, toward the outpost drives a car with the President of the United States, the Pope, and the guard’s mother. There are people out there who would open fire on that car. I’m just trying to explain how some people will follow rules so fanatically as to not be deterred by a social check.And as for the friend stealing my dice. A bluff check doesn’t always help him either. One time, only one time mind you, he beat my sense motive check; because he was telling the truth. I still insisted it was him and pressed him on it until I realized I had not even brought out my dice yet. In my defense, when you have a record like he does, you shouldn’t be surprised at such accusations. Its just further proves my point that failing a check doesn’t mean you necessarily believe what’s going on. The adventure before this one, a PC killed a rotten-toothed inn keeper because we all knew he was up to something, even though we were unable to find hard evidence of wrong doing. I personally have doubted people in real life, called them liars who were trying to take advantage of me. Most times I actually turned out right but sometimes I have been wrong. Being a monstrous cynic allows you to bypass the whole bluff vs diplomacy thing. Besides, it better to not trust someone who is being honest then it is to trust someone who is being deceitful.</blockquote>

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