Intimidate

You bend others to your will using threats.

Utility

Untrained

• Coerce
  Coerce

  EXPLORATION
  
  

  Description With threats either veiled or overt, you attempt to bully a creature into doing what you want.
  Applications You must spend at least 1 minute of conversation with a creature you can see and that can either see or sense you. At the end of the conversation, attempt an Intimidation check against the target’s Will DC, modified by any circumstances the GM determines. Degrees of Performance

  • Critical Success The target gives you the information you seek or agrees to follow your directives so long as they aren’t likely to harm the target in any way. The target continues to comply for an amount of time determined by the GM but not exceeding 1 day, at which point the target becomes unfriendly (if they weren’t already unfriendly or hostile). However, the target is too scared of you to retaliate—at least in the short term.
  • Success As critical success, but once the target becomes unfriendly, they might decide to act against you—for example, by reporting you to the authorities or assisting your enemies.
  • Failure The target doesn’t do what you say, and if they were not already unfriendly or hostile, they become unfriendly. Critical Failure The target refuses to comply becomes hostile if they weren’t already, and can’t be Coerced by you for at least 1 week.

  Changing Attitudes

  Your influence on NPCs is measured with a set of attitudes that reflect how they view your character.

  • Helpful Willing to help you and responds favorably to your requests.
  • Friendly Has a good attitude toward you, but won’t necessarily stick their neck out to help you.
  • Indifferent Doesn’t care about you either way. (Most NPCs start out indifferent.)
  • Unfriendly Dislikes you and doesn’t want to help you.
  • Hostile- Actively works against you—and might attack you just because of their dislike.

  No one can ever change the attitude of a player character with these skills. You can roleplay interactions with player characters, and even use Diplomacy results if the player wants a mechanical sense of how convincing or charming a character is, but players make the ultimate decisions about how their characters respond.
• Demoralize
  Demoralize

  SINGLE ACTION
  
  

  Description With a sudden shout, a well-timed taunt, or a cutting put-down, you can shake an enemy’s resolve.
  Applications Choose a creature within 30 feet of you who you’re aware of. Attempt an Intimidation check against that target’s Will DC. If the target does not understand the language you are speaking, you’re not speaking a language, or they can’t hear you, you take a –4 circumstance penalty to the check. Regardless of your result, the target is temporarily immune to your attempts to Demoralize it for 10 minutes. Degrees of Performance

  • Critical Success The target becomes frightened 2.
  • Success The target becomes frightened 1.

Children Technologies

• Intimidating Prowess
• Raging Intimidation

Intimidate

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Name

Intimidate

Ability

Charisma

Description

You bend others to your will using threats.

Actions

Untrained: Coerce, Demoralize

Tags

Pathfinder 2e, Charisma, Skill

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