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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jesus_marley" data-source="post: 1957990" data-attributes="member: 24730">Looks like I showed up late to the ummm... party.FWIW, In terms of the intimidate check, a person who is intimidated by someone, does not necessarily have to obey. As stated before in this thread, I have on several occasions seen situations where a person is visibly intimidated yet refuses to back down, whether it be from sheer stubborness, a matter of honour, or mere stupidity.Intimidation provokes fear. That is not to say that it creates a Magical fear-like effect, but that it initiates that fear driven Fight or Flight response. Many times, an intimidated person will  back down from fear (natural) yet that same fear can create the exact opposite reaction that someone would expect to see.That being said, a failed roll to resist an intimidate check should not automatically indicate a PCs response to a situation but more so their overall feelings towards the person doing the intimidating.As an example... the NPC attempts to intimidate the 6'5" barbarian (PC) in front of a room full of people. She rolls a 22, he gets an 18. He is clearly intimidated by her yet the player thinks that he would never dare show it. Instead of moving aside, the player feels that a display of (false) Bravado would be more appropriate. The NPC then attacks. The PC fights back. As DM I would place a -1 or -2 circumstance penalty to the barbarians attacks to show the effect of the intimidation but that is all. How a player chooses to have their characters react to non magical fear inducing effects is entirely up to them.</blockquote>

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