07-12-2021, 10:33 AM | #1 | |
Join Date: Jun 2017
|
[Basic Set] Is Intimidation only used as an Influence Roll?
Regarding the broader subject of "are Influence Skills only used as Influence Rolls", I know the answer to be "no, there are other uses for them".
But for Intimidation, specifically? The write-up on B202 does not explicitly mention how to use the skill against a single adversary. It does, however say: Quote:
Other aspects to be taken in consideration:
Last edited by Grayscale; 07-12-2021 at 11:05 AM. |
|
07-12-2021, 11:29 AM | #2 | |||
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Luxembourg
|
Re: [Basic Set] Is Intimidation only used as an Influence Roll?
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
|||
07-12-2021, 12:02 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Jun 2017
|
Re: [Basic Set] Is Intimidation only used as an Influence Roll?
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
|
07-12-2021, 01:38 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Ottawa, Canada
|
Re: [Basic Set] Is Intimidation only used as an Influence Roll?
The various campaign framework series (e.g., Dungeon Fantasy, Action, After the End) all introduced a "blustering" mechanic to use Intimidation in combat, where if you win the Intimidation contest your target (or targets) will move away from you and not attack you (and only you; your teammates are still fair game, so long as they can get to them without going by you).
Edit: It can be found within the second volume of each of the series. |
07-13-2021, 02:05 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Sep 2018
|
Re: [Basic Set] Is Intimidation only used as an Influence Roll?
Sort of yes? You're employing a skill to force a reaction rather than relying on a random roll. It's actually specifically mentioned in the Influence Roll section but like all Influence Rolls it has specific exceptions and unusual effects unlike other influence skills.
|
07-13-2021, 11:24 AM | #6 |
Join Date: Dec 2012
|
Re: [Basic Set] Is Intimidation only used as an Influence Roll?
Some of my magic system ideas have Intimidation as the core skill of some styles - practitioners believe that they are intimidating 'the spirits' or 'the universe' or whatever into doing what they wish, though this is not necessarily the case (it may be just how they focus the mind on the desired result). That's probably a pretty weird outlier, though.
__________________
Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted. |
07-14-2021, 11:19 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: UK
|
Re: [Basic Set] Is Intimidation only used as an Influence Roll?
Sounds like Girl Genius.
__________________
Looking for online text-based game at a UK-feasible time, anything considered, Roll20 preferred. http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=168443 |
07-15-2021, 05:12 AM | #8 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
|
Re: [Basic Set] Is Intimidation only used as an Influence Roll?
|
07-15-2021, 05:19 AM | #9 | |
Join Date: May 2021
Location: Eastern Kentucky
|
Re: [Basic Set] Is Intimidation only used as an Influence Roll?
Quote:
|
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|