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If an NPC is telling the truth, what's the Insight DC to know they're telling the truth?
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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7585467" data-attributes="member: 97077"><p>Yes, these discussions always seem to revolve around Insight being used to resolve tasks to discern truthfulness, but the DMG has a structure for resolving social interaction challenges (DMG, p. 244-245). In that setup, the PCs are generally going to be trying to suss out ideals, bonds, flaws or hidden agendas which can then be leveraged to modify the NPC's attitude. When the attempt has an uncertain outcome and a meaningful consequence of failure, an Insight check resolves it. The NPC's attitude in turn is used to determine the DC for any checks related to the PCs getting the NPC to do something for them.</p><p></p><p>Given this setup, what you'll tend to see in my experience are the wise characters assessing things in the background while the charismatic characters do the talking. The wise characters share the insights with the charismatic types who use that to bend the chances of success in their favor. This way, there's more participation in the challenge. I almost always give my less charismatic characters Insight for this reason. Sometimes those characters set about trying to discern truthfulness, but the real advantage is in trying to get at those ideals, bonds, flaws, or hidden agendas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iserith, post: 7585467, member: 97077"] Yes, these discussions always seem to revolve around Insight being used to resolve tasks to discern truthfulness, but the DMG has a structure for resolving social interaction challenges (DMG, p. 244-245). In that setup, the PCs are generally going to be trying to suss out ideals, bonds, flaws or hidden agendas which can then be leveraged to modify the NPC's attitude. When the attempt has an uncertain outcome and a meaningful consequence of failure, an Insight check resolves it. The NPC's attitude in turn is used to determine the DC for any checks related to the PCs getting the NPC to do something for them. Given this setup, what you'll tend to see in my experience are the wise characters assessing things in the background while the charismatic characters do the talking. The wise characters share the insights with the charismatic types who use that to bend the chances of success in their favor. This way, there's more participation in the challenge. I almost always give my less charismatic characters Insight for this reason. Sometimes those characters set about trying to discern truthfulness, but the real advantage is in trying to get at those ideals, bonds, flaws, or hidden agendas. [/QUOTE]
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