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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MadBlue" data-source="post: 1925452" data-attributes="member: 7552">Gotta be a pretty charismatic Halfling to overcome the -4 penalty to intimidation he has for size (assuming the bartender is medium-sized). More likely, the Halfling has Ranks of Intimidate up the wazoo. If the Half-Orc put the same skill points into Intimidate as the Halfling did, he would have gotten a free drink too.People tend to make too much of an issue of the fact that Charisma is the ability associated with the Intimidate skill, especially when giving examples. You never hear things like "a Halfling and a Half-Orc jump into a river. The Halfling flounders in the water and sinks like a stone, while the Half-Orc takes to the water like a fish" simply because the Halfling gets a penalty to Strength. Basically, how well a character swims has more to do with the Ranks they have in Swim than with what their Strength score is.The classes that Half-Orcs are most likely to take, Barbarian, Fighter and Rogue, all have Intimidate as a class skill, so there's nothing stopping the average Half-Orc character from being more intimidating (and he's already more intimidating than (and to) the average Halfling character based on relative size).In any case, IMC, I give Half-Orcs a +3 racial Bonus to Intimidate, which nets them a +2 bonus - the same bonus Half-Elves get to the skills they use for their preferred method of social interaction. I figure while both races are "outsiders" to their parent races, Half-Elves tend to use a diplomatic approach to get whet they want, while Half-Orcs tend to take a more brusque, yet still effective, approach. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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