If I'm say, trying to convince a group of soldiers to follow me(a player) into a fight, or a crowd to riot, or otherwise convincing a large group of people via oration to do something (maybe it's a more modern setting and I'm trying to convince people to vote for me), would this be a persuasion check? (I want you to do x…) or a performance check (I'm doing something in front of a large crowd of people, trying to get something out of it).
If it's a performance check, at what scale do I need to switch between persuasion to performance?
Or is it both?
Best Answer
Persuasion to Convince a Crowd
The core rules include cases of groups in their examples of persuasion checks:
Performance is about Entertainment
Performance:
Combination
One might attempt to use a combination to overcome an obstacle where the end goal is to convince a large crowd. The character might begin with performances to attract enough people to form a sufficiently large crowd, and then transition to persuasion to convince the group of something.