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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sunshadow21" data-source="post: 6744010" data-attributes="member: 6667193"><p>The difference between you and me is that I would be just as likely to grant the guard an intimidate check as the PC would be to counter it with their own intimidate check; NPC status vs PC status would have no impact at all on how I let it play out. That would be up the circumstances of the scene. Sometimes the guard would simply be repeating a phrase oft said to most passerbys and the PC happens to be the civilian passing by at that moment; in that case, no roll because it's not really a specfic action, just an indication that the guard is aware of the situation. Others would have specific reasons to specifically roll intimidate; in those cases, a roll is not only appropriate, but clearly marks the action as significant. Likewise, on the PC side, if the guard is trying to break up a bar room brawl and telling the PC to back down, the PC has little reason to counter with an intimidate (unless they are drunk or something like that), but if the party needs to specifically get past the guard, the PC would have very good reason to turn it into a contest of wills or possibly even combat. If a PC were to try to intimidate a random guard on patrol or at a random gate, the question would be how hard does the guard laugh, not how intimidated they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>