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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8157580" data-attributes="member: 52734">I've tried a couple social interaction systems, with varied success.  I wouldn't be opposed to a system that was as detailed as D&D's combat system with witty thrusts and repartees, innuendos and insinuations, veiled threats and shouted ultimatums.  It would be more appropriate for a political sort of game, where things are resolved by intrigue and backstabbing long before knives are drawn (if ever).  Not something that generally fit in typical D&D.In a recent combat in 5E, I had a combat where the PCs were fighting a nemesis PC and her cronies.  The group's warlock - who had jilted and betrayed the enemy leader - found himself the focus of her fury.  He kept interjecting his actions with attempts to parley and talking her down.  His smooth talking had various effects - he was able to focus her attacks away from others, infuriate her and make her careless and so forth, using a variety of Persuasion, Intimidate, Insight and Deception rolls (and RP) to try and keep her off-balance long enough to finally whittle down the remaining opposition and talk her into surrender.  It made the combat very interesting and unusual, and I wish I'd had stronger rules where perhaps the skill checks could have directly whittled away (or even bolstered) her resolve in better defined ways.  I wouldn't have been opposed to some of it dealing psychic-type damage to represent chipping away at her resolve in fighting or distracting her to set her up for a killing blow.  We already have some spells that "magically" inflict some of these sort of things ranging from Vicious Mockery to Dissonant Whispers - I for one wouldn't mind seeing a way to do something like Persuasion/Intimidate/Deception vs. Passive Insight to deal 1d4+Cha modifier psychic damage to a target (or more with abilities or feats).  It would mean moving away from the perception of hit point as "meat" and more toward hit points as resolve/opportunity to overcome a foe/obstacle.</blockquote>

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