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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 3228147" data-attributes="member: 40398">My rule is that Sense Motive checks, like many other social situations are voluntary on the players' part. A player can choose to simply roleplay whether to believe an NPC or the player can choose to 'Sense his Motive', in which case I (the DM) rolls for the character. I then tell the player that his character either believes the NPC or not (I never say "you're not sure"); in neither case is the player required to act upon his character's belief. I use this system because it's simple and does not allow for the possibility of metagaming.Regarding PC v. PC, rolls are never implemented unless the players are intentionally being goofy. PCs have the advantage of destiny; in game terms this means that they can use social skills against NPCs but such rolls do not affect them.</blockquote>