08-04-2015, 11:25 AM
All three skills (Diplomacy, Bluff and Intimidate) require all three of the following:
1) You can intelligibly communicate with whatever it is you’re using these skills on.
2) The creature your communicating with is intelligent enough to understand you.
3) You have the time required to use the skills. Which is usually 1 minute.
And
4) These skills don't bend or warp reality or negate common sense. Smaug is not going to give you his treasure no matter how awesome your Skill DC rank; Zeus is not giving you his bag of Thunderbolts; Nor is the big bad evil guy going to give up his world conquests and take up basket weaving. Of course if you beat them to near death they might be willing to listen to reason if it means they get something out of it, namely their life.
1) You can intelligibly communicate with whatever it is you’re using these skills on.
2) The creature your communicating with is intelligent enough to understand you.
3) You have the time required to use the skills. Which is usually 1 minute.
And
4) These skills don't bend or warp reality or negate common sense. Smaug is not going to give you his treasure no matter how awesome your Skill DC rank; Zeus is not giving you his bag of Thunderbolts; Nor is the big bad evil guy going to give up his world conquests and take up basket weaving. Of course if you beat them to near death they might be willing to listen to reason if it means they get something out of it, namely their life.
