{{Sidebar |Suggested Rule Change |In the interest of avoiding intimidation / fear parties, we recommend a rule change regarding fear stacking. Please see [[Revised Fear Effects (3.5e Variant Rule)]] for more information. You don't have to use this change if you don't want to, but you should understand that this skill is significantly more powerful if you can stack fear effects.}}Key Attribute: [[Charisma]]<onlyinclude>The intimidation skill is a social skill involving the threat of force, violence, and other unpleasantries. With it you can scare people into helping or running from you. Those who practice intimidation intensely can scare off larger groups of people, demand obedience from others, and break fear’s grasp over people.

===Check Modifiers=== {|class="d20 zebra" style="text-align:left;" width="50:60%;"! Circumstance Condition !! DC Check Modifier!! Example

|Took Offensive Action || +2||You just wounded someone in front of your target || -2.

|Took Disconcerting Action || +5||You just killed someone in front of your target || -5.

|Took Cold Blooded Action || +8 ||You just killed someone close to your target in cold blood, and made the target watch .|} {| class="d20 zebra" style="text-8align:left; width:60%;"!Rushing !! Check Modifier

|Rushing1 minute -> 2 rounds¹: reduce a 1 minute action to a standard action || +-5

|Rushing2 rounds -> 1 standard action¹: reduce a standard action to a free action || +-5

| 1 standard action -> 1 free action¹ || -5|-| colspan="2" class="foot" colspan=3 |#These conditions may be stacked, in which case all relevant modifiers applystack.|}<onlyinclude> 

====[[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Help Me Out Here, Or Else|Help Me Out Here, Or Else]]====Fear is a powerful tool in social interactions. If you have at least one minute to interact with someone, you may make an intimidation check to make someone temporarily more “helpful”. </onlyinclude> The base DC for this check is 15 + their CR, and this base DC is modified by you gain a bonus or penalty to your check as indicated in the conditions listed above. A target can always choose to replace their base DC with a Psychology check, though they must stick with the result even if it is lower than the base DC would otherwise be. The DC is also modified by other situational events as indicated in the table above.

'''Base DC:''' 15 + Character Level, + conditions<br/>

*DC-6 and below: The target thinks you’re rather annoying when you try to be scary. They openly mock you, provide you with incorrect or useless information, or otherwise frustrate your efforts.<onlyinclude> 

====[[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Shake Resolve|Shake Resolve]]====With threats, gestures, and posture you can make even the bravest foe cower. You may attempt to scare off an enemy rather than, or in addition to, trying to stab them in the face.</onlyinclude> As a standard action, you may attempt to make every enemy that you threaten as well as up to 1 enemy per rank shake the resolve of intimidation fearful of your combat prowess. You must have line of sight one target who is either adjacent to all of your targets and they must be aware of you and or within 50 feet of you for this to function. No matter how many targets you attempt to affect with this ability, you only make one check. That result is then compared to the DCs for each targetyour threatened area. The base DC for this check is 15 + their CR. A target can always choose You gain a bonus or penalty to replace this base DC with a Psychology your check, though they must stick with the result even if it is lower than the base DC would otherwise be. The DC is also modified other situational events as indicated in the table conditions listed above. The exact effects are dependent upon your check result.

The exact effects are dependent upon your check result. Note that the conditions generated do not stack with additional uses of this ability or with uses of this ability from other sources. Multiple people trying to intimidate someone is covered by the treated as an aid another rulesattempt, and not by simply trying to stack these attempts on top of each other.

'''Base DC:''' 15 + Character Level<br/>

*DC-1 and below: You fail to shake the resolve of your opponent. It’s time to try old fashioned killing.<onlyinclude>  ===Rank 4 Uses=== ====[[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Cowards, All of You!|Cowards, All of You!]]====It's easy to project an air of confidence and menace when you know what you're doing. You can get multiple creatures to run from you instead of fighting.</onlyinclude> When you use the [[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Shake Resolve|Shake Resolve]] ability you may target all individuals in your threatened area, as well as up to 1 targets per rank of intimidation that you possess at a range of up to 50 feet. You must have line of sight to all of your targets. No matter how many targets you attempt to affect with this ability, you only make one check. That result is then compared to the DCs for each target. This ability otherwise functions like the [[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Shake Resolve|Shake Resolve]] ability.<onlyinclude> 

====[[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Snap Out Of It|Snap Out Of It]]====Intimidation is a skill all about making people afraid of you, and that fear can be used to break people free from the grip of inaction. Maybe you threaten them, maybe you just glare, the simple fact is that you can shake your friends (or your "friends", in some cases) free of fear and stun effects. </onlyinclude> You cannot affect yourself with this ability, however, as those conditions detract from your ability to analyze a situationrouse the necessary scariness. To shock someone free of their fear, you make an intimidation check as a standard action. The DC is the effect’s save DC + the effect’s level (in the case of spells like Fear) or 10 + the effect user’s character level + the effect user’s Chr modifier (in the case of supernatural abilities without an effect level, or an intimidation ability used against you). If you succeed on the check, you suppress the ability as indicated in the check result table below, affecting up to 1 target per 2 ranks in intimidation. Only make one roll for the round, and compare that roll to the DCs for each effect to see which are suppressed and which are not.

*DC-6 and below: Too much fear isn’t helpful. After accidentally talking them deeper into their condition, you become unable to affect this instance of the ability at all. Any further retries are futile, and you should really find something else to do with your actions next round.<onlyinclude> 

====[[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#New Orders|New Orders]]====You’ve learned which tones of voice work best to get people to obey you without thought. As a standard action, Under most circumstances you can make an intimidation to make your a target drop what they’re doing and follow your orders instead.</onlyinclude> As a standard action, you can make a demand of a target that they may follow without question. Targets currently engaged in combat with you can not be affected by this ability. The base DC for this check is 15 + their CR. A target can always choose You gain a bonus or penalty to replace this base DC with a Psychology your check, though they must stick with the result even if it is lower than the base DC would otherwise be. The DC is also modified other situational events as indicated in the table conditions listed above. Targets also become resistant to your control, and the DC rises by +you suffer a cumulative -3 penalty for each additional attempt you make on a target, so it is difficult to catch them with it more than once.

If you succeed, they follow brief (20 words or less) instructions from you to the best of their ability. The instructions may not be suicidal or result in obvious harm to the target. How long they follow your instructions depends on your check result.

*DC-1 and below: You fail to order the target around, and they react appropriately to such a failure.<onlyinclude> 

====[[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Shout Them Down|Shout Them Down]]====You don’t just shake the resolve of your enemies with your actions and combat prowess, but with your very presence. You can get a lot of creatures to run from you instead of fighting.</onlyinclude> When you use the [[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Shake Resolve|Shake Resolve]] ability you treat your threatened area as 5 feet longer than it actually is. You may target all individuals in this modified threatened area, as well as up to 2 targets per rank of intimidation that you possess at a range of up to 100 feet. You do not require line of sight to a target, you must simply be aware of them. No matter how many targets you attempt to affect with this ability, you only make one check. That result is then compared to the DCs for each target. This ability otherwise functions like the [[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Shake Resolve|Shake Resolve]] ability.<onlyinclude>  ===Rank 12 Uses=== ====[[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#Go Jump Off A Cliff|Go Jump Off A Cliff]]====Some tones of voice can override a person's natural sense of self preservation. You have practiced these tones, and may use them where you feel appropriate.</onlyinclude> When you issue a demand to a creature with the [[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Intimidation#New Orders|New Orders]] ability, you may ask them to perform suicidal or obviously harmful actions. You suffer a -5 penalty to your check when you do so.