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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lurker37" data-source="post: 4207165" data-attributes="member: 9522">The NPC was NOT immune in the excerpt. It was simply the case that because of the short-term nature of intimidate, and even moreso because of the negative consequences once it wore off, using it would actually work against the player characters in the example given. ( Convincing the Duke that you are a credible threat to him when you're trying to win his trust? Not so productive. )As for usefulness,  intimidate is effective in scenarios where Diplomacy isn't because it's fast. Diplomacy (and to a lesser extent, Bluff) require the target to be receptive to what you're saying. Intimidate can be entirely non-verbal, or at least not use actual language.That lack of need for language means that you can also use it on animals that respond to threat displays. I could even see a skill challenge where intimidate was needed to halt a mob in its tracks and  grab their attention before diplomacy could be attempted, because prior to that they were all yelling too loud to hear anyone.</blockquote>