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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9287653" data-attributes="member: 2525">I think role play choices, even those just stated rather than acted out, still could use some systematic guidelines for how to adjudicate them.This came up recently in an adventure. A crowded theater was on fire, we were wrongfully accused of murdering someone in that theater and causing the fire, and rather than attack the innocent panicked crowd we used persuasion, deception and intimidation to try and get people to help put out the fire, and exit without trampling people, and without them attacking us. Can a persuasion check be made against a crowd? If not, why not? If so, how is it done, what is the DC, how many of the crowd are persuaded by such a group check? What's the likely result, and does that result vary depending on initial attitude of the crowd towards us, or based on their fear of the fire?We also tried to persuade the guards that we were innocent and to delay attacking us at least until the fire was out. Can we make a group check against all the guards or just one? If against all, how do we adjudicate if some are persuaded and some are not? How do we adjudicate if some are sort of persuaded but also fearful of their captain who is not? Once they make up their mind, can we try again on a following round?Our DM could really have used some more guidelines. There are some here and there, but I wish there were more, and all in one place.</blockquote>