Celebrim
Legend
I consider the whole 'retry' thing barely worth discussing.
The answer is, consider the circumstances of the fiction and use the mechanic that most makes sense for the circumstances of the fiction. If it doesn't make sense for the PC to just bat their eyes harder and get a retry, guess what? That's how you know you shouldn't allow a retry.
We could spend a lot of time backing that assertion up from the rules, but then very much we'd be getting into a really rules lawyerly discussion where you were trying to get the letter of the rules to override the spirit of the rules.
In this specific case of a failed seduction check, we are think obviously dealing with a skill check with consequences - that's one of the reasons we bothered to roll in the first place. If the skill check failed, then the reasonable consequences are the Priestess now realizes that you have dishonorable intentions. She is now less friendly toward the PC with all the consequences that entails, including more difficult seduction checks in the future - if and when based on the play it would make sense for those to be earned.
The rules are tools. This isn't hard.
The answer is, consider the circumstances of the fiction and use the mechanic that most makes sense for the circumstances of the fiction. If it doesn't make sense for the PC to just bat their eyes harder and get a retry, guess what? That's how you know you shouldn't allow a retry.
We could spend a lot of time backing that assertion up from the rules, but then very much we'd be getting into a really rules lawyerly discussion where you were trying to get the letter of the rules to override the spirit of the rules.
In this specific case of a failed seduction check, we are think obviously dealing with a skill check with consequences - that's one of the reasons we bothered to roll in the first place. If the skill check failed, then the reasonable consequences are the Priestess now realizes that you have dishonorable intentions. She is now less friendly toward the PC with all the consequences that entails, including more difficult seduction checks in the future - if and when based on the play it would make sense for those to be earned.
The rules are tools. This isn't hard.