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Originally Posted by FeiLin
Oh, and as per the title, what about passive intimidation? Say Conan opens the door to a tavern; how would I emulate his mere presence’s effect? Then, imagine he were 50% bigger (SM1), would that just be a mere +1 to the roll?
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"Passive intimidation" is just a general reaction roll. If you want to randomly determine how the tavern-goers react as a group, make a single roll for all of them. I'd use the SM-difference modifier in addition to whatever normal modifiers would apply, but probably nothing else if Conan is otherwise behaving as a normal person walking into a tavern. On a Very Good or higher, or Bad or lower, the crowd would hush dramatically, the former representing people impressed, the latter representing people intimidated.
(To be clear, I probably wouldn't roll a group reaction just on walking into a tavern. If Conan walks into a tavern, business continues as usual. If Conan plops himself down next to another customer and starts up a conversation, I'd roll an individual reaction roll, and the appropriate modifiers would depend on which tack Conan takes.)