52 minutes ago, Richardbuxton said:Social encounters in FFG Star Wars are excellent, well structured, well supported by the rules and the pc options available, and can entirely rely on skill checks. "I'm not an inspiring leader but my character is, I don't know what they say but it works by the looks of the dice roll" is an entirely acceptable and functional part of that system.
This is also an entirely acceptable and functional part of L5R's system, the same as any other kind of skill check: the GM either sets a TN or makes it opposed, you roll, and that can be the end of it. The scenario described above was a failure of GMing ("you don't know anything about this OOC so you fail IC because I won't allow your sheet to matter"), not a failure of the system.