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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9827213" data-attributes="member: 23751">With the former the reasons for why their old choice of harmful/bad is because threats of violence.  Intimidate isn't just another persuasion skill that pushes instead of pulls.  With persuasion you use reason and emotion to convince.  With intimidation you use threats, fear or overwhelming awe to convince. You can convince someone to agree to do what you want with intimidation, but they will almost never be happy about it.Because that's what intimidation is.  It's not a differently happy persuasion skill.  If you use fear to intimidate them, they are afraid of you and what you are doing.  Fear doesn't make people happy with you.  If you use threats to make them do it, they may or may not fear you, but they bend to the threats.  Threats do not make people happy with you.  Overwhelming awe is only rarely within the PCs control, and even then to get someone to do something they otherwise would not do via awe, it's using the awe so that they are afraid to cross such awe inspiring individuals.There's a reason why synonyms of intimidating include frighten, menace, terrify, scare, alarm and terrorize.In short, don't use intimidation on people you want to like you.  Use it monsters, enemies, people you don't care about and will probably never see again, etc.</blockquote>