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Originally Posted by whswhs
I don't understand the objection. Such rolls are meant to describe, for example, the prison guard who isn't going to open your cell door and let you walk out no matter how beautiful or persuasive you are. It doesn't seem to me that it makes for either greater realism or better drama if super attractive people can set that limit aside.
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The problem as I see it is the
suddenness of he cap:
If you set the cap of a loyal and grumpy guard at 'will not release the prisoner', you can have a very sharp cutoff between that and the easier-achieved 'will [not] allow smuggling a mundane item'. It seems extremely jarring when e.g. smuggling a mundane item requires a modified reaction roll of 17, but 18+ (number just as an example) has absolutely no effect whatsoever.
Instead, I'd rather look for something like this:
11: get a glass of water;
13: get a blanket;
17: look away while someone smuggles in a mundane, non-threatening item;
22: look away while someone smuggles in a slightly risky item;
28: pretend not to hear while inmate discuss violence against another inmate;
37: assist in such planning;
Outright divine levels of divinity of persuasiveness: look away or assist in a breakout.
But something that is more harmonious and less arbitrary than the table I posted as an example.