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<blockquote data-quote="Edgar Ironpelt" data-source="post: 9292100" data-attributes="member: 32075">What would a mini-game that goes beyond skill checks look like?An expanded skill check system that tries to avoid turning into a mini-game might give the PC a set of skills or sub-skills to &quot;try to get the guard to...&quot; - the PC might try to persuade, intimidate, bribe, distract... The guard would then have different target numbers for the different methods, e.g. a given guard might be hard to intimidate or persuade, but easy to bribe. And then the PC will need some sort of skill or ability to evaluate the guard's different target numbers. In some game systems, for example, the Bribery skill includes not just &quot;getting the target to accept a bribe&quot; but also evaluating how susceptible the target would be to a bribe, how much an appropriate bribe would be, and what form the bribe should take. (Bob the NPC might huffily turn down a cash bribe in exchange for a favor, but treat him to a fine dinner and ahem Bob's your uncle.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Edgar Ironpelt, post: 9292100, member: 32075"] What would a mini-game that goes beyond skill checks look like? An expanded skill check system that tries to avoid turning into a mini-game might give the PC a set of skills or sub-skills to "try to get the guard to..." - the PC might try to persuade, intimidate, bribe, distract... The guard would then have different target numbers for the different methods, e.g. a given guard might be hard to intimidate or persuade, but easy to bribe. And then the PC will need some sort of skill or ability to evaluate the guard's different target numbers. In some game systems, for example, the Bribery skill includes not just "getting the target to accept a bribe" but also evaluating how susceptible the target would be to a bribe, how much an appropriate bribe would be, and what form the bribe should take. (Bob the NPC might huffily turn down a cash bribe in exchange for a favor, but treat him to a fine dinner and [I][I]ahem[/I][/I] Bob's your uncle.) [/QUOTE]

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