Editing Ogre:CharacterCodex:Skills:Investigation (section)

==Sense Motive==
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!Ability
|Wisdom
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!Action
|See below
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!Armor Penalty
|None
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!Untrained
|Yes; see below
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!Concentration
|No
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'''Synergy:''' Diplomacy
'''Description:''' This skill is your ability to discover the motives behind a person action. This allows you to discover when someone is avoiding the truth, lying or when someone is up to something.

This skill also allows assessing someone’s trustworthiness, sense manipulation and discovering secret message.

'''Check:''' To discover someone motives or assess his trustworthiness, you must beat the opponent Wits.

Sense Manipulation: You can tell that someone's behavior is being influenced by another person. This person is maybe acting some way because someone his menacing him or someone he loved or he may be under some mental influence. The usual DC is 25, but if the target does something really out of character, the DC is only 15.

Discern Secret Message: You may use Sense Motive to detect that a hidden message is being transmitted via the Innuendo skill. In this case, your Sense Motive check is opposed by the Innuendo check of the character transmitting the message. For each piece of information relating to the message that you are missing, you take a -2 penalty on your Sense Motive check. 
On a success, you know that something hidden is being communicated, but you can't learn anything specific about its content. If you have a total success, you intercept and understand the message. On a total failure, you think you have intercepted a message whatever there was on or not and information in the message are misleading.

'''Action:''' Trying to gain information with Sense Motive generally takes at least 1 minute, and you could spend a whole evening trying to get a sense of the people around you.

'''Try Again:''' No.