Then it is pretty useless if you can just force your will anyway if you fail.
Not really, from an RP perspective I much prefer to use a persuasion check even if I will take the "by any means necessary" approach in certain situations.
I actually got the execution scene to finally pass yesterday after I stack even more persuasion from some other gears.
There's one scene I failed on Nameless Isle though and a key npc had to die.
It's really ridiculous. Shopping around for +3 persuasion from gears and racial is something I better have at all time starting from Nameless Isle. Even if I flip a mage with some weird stat like 40 mem to go persuade them simply because I didn't wear persuasion gear on every possible body part.
I've had a frustrating time with finding loot that has a useful set of attributes, and have spent the past couple of days trawling vendors for that and others without even finding a +1 personality item. I did find a single-hander that boosted my two-handed though, so that made up for it.
