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<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 1582871" data-attributes="member: 4134">You can't intimidate people with Str. You can frighten them or threaten them, but the fine art of intimidation isn't for brutes.If you use Str to bully someone, they call for reinforcements, lie to you, ran away, or resist. You might be stronger than them, but you aren't stronger than them and their army. But if you Intimidate them, they *know* that the reinforcements won't arrive in time to save them, that they can't run or hide from you, that you know when they're lying, and that resistance is futile. It is no fear, it is a cold certainty.You can use str for what some DM's associate with Intimidate (especially before 3.5 where the effect was spelled out), namely frightening people, who might just ruin your plans by running away and screaming like a child (I always loved it when a DM used my good Intimidate roll against me in that way - especially when it was one of the few rolls I didn't fumble that session)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 1582871, member: 4134"] You can't intimidate people with Str. You can frighten them or threaten them, but the fine art of intimidation isn't for brutes. If you use Str to bully someone, they call for reinforcements, lie to you, ran away, or resist. You might be stronger than them, but you aren't stronger than them and their army. But if you Intimidate them, they *know* that the reinforcements won't arrive in time to save them, that they can't run or hide from you, that you know when they're lying, and that resistance is futile. It is no fear, it is a cold certainty. You can use str for what some DM's associate with Intimidate (especially before 3.5 where the effect was spelled out), namely frightening people, who might just ruin your plans by running away and screaming like a child (I always loved it when a DM used my good Intimidate roll against me in that way - especially when it was one of the few rolls I didn't fumble that session) [/QUOTE]

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