7.22 Social Insight (Per)

The Social Insight skill represents your ability to read body language and emotion.

7.22.1 Common Social Insight Tasks

Discern Enchantment: You can make a Social Insight check to notice whether a creature is affected by any behavior-altering effects. Noticing a Compulsion effect is difficulty value 5, and noticing an Emotion or Subtle effect is difficulty value 20. You can use this task to notice effects on yourself in addition to other creatures.

Discern Hidden Message: You can make an opposed Social Insight vs. Deception check to recognize when a hidden message is being conveyed in a conversation.

Discern Lies: You can make an opposed Social Insight vs. Deception check to recognize when a creature is intentionally lying or concealing the truth.

Social Assessment: You can make a Social Insight check to get a general assessment of a social situation after a minute of observation. The base difficulty value is equal to 10. Simple and familiar social situations are easier to understand, while complex and unfamiliar social situations can be much harder to understand. Success means you learn relevant information about the situation, such as a general understanding of expected behaviors or a rough understanding of the social hierarchy.