Taunt:
You may be small, but your remarks cut others down to size.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Small size or smaller.
Benefit: You can demoralize opponents using Bluff rather than Intimidate (see the Intimidate skill description for details) and take no skill check penalty for being smaller than your target.
Bluff:
Bluff is an opposed skill check against your opponent’s Sense Motive skill.
Common uses:
- Convey secret message
- Deceive or lie
- Feign harmlessness
- Feint in combat
- Suggest course of action
A lot of bluff boosts apply only to specific activities, like the Mask of Stony Demeanor (+10 to lie, +5 to feint, -5 to hidden messages) or glibness (+20 to lie).
I have two questions about the use of Taunt:
(1) Does it convert demoralize attempts into sense motive checks or is it the usual intimidate roll but using the Bluff skill instead of Intimidate?
(2) Does the taunt fit into one of the existing categories (i.e. lying or feinting) or is it a brand new thing? In other words, do things like glibness and the mask of stony demeanor apply to demoralize attempts using taunt?
1) It functions just as if you were using the demoralize function of the Intimidate skill, though you use Bluff instead of Intimidate. The DC is the same as it would be before, but since you're not using Intimidate, you get to avoid the penalty for being smaller than your target.
2) In this sense, you are using Bluff to demoralize, rather than lie, feint, coerce, etc. While the action of taunting may in fact include lies ("I slept with your mother", etc), the goal is to demoralize, rather than convince them something is true, so most items that key off of subfunctions of Bluff don't apply here.