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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sunshadow21" data-source="post: 6736210" data-attributes="member: 6667193"><p>Then I would expect, as a player at your table, for any such rolls initiated on the DM side to have the exact same kind of firm outcome, since similarly specific goals would likely be in play. Personally, I don't run my NPCs that black and white in terms of results. NPCs have their own motivations and concerns just like the PCs and very rarely will the PCs know all, if any of them, and therefore, the chances of pinning down results that specifically are slim to none. Similarly, I don't run NPCs as necessarily expecting such concrete examples of success or failure from PCs, as the NPCs will usually not know enough about the PCs to judge reactions that firmly. In the end, I tend to run my NPCs as organically as players run PCs; there is very rarely a predetermined outcome I have in mind when I have PCs roll, and I don't expect players to know in advance of any rolls I make how their characters are going to react. I tend to treat most social encounters a series of rolls as well, reducing the emphasis on any given dice roll, making success, failure, or stalemate, being decided multiple dice rolls and the role play behind each roll. I almost never boil down success or failure like you describe above to a single roll. Combat always requires multiple rolls combined with strategy and party teamwork. I treat non-combat scenarios the same way.</p></blockquote><p></p>