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Plane · 06-16-2019, 01:58 PM

Perhaps a successful "Body Language" roll could help prevent being surprised by that?

This wouldn't help your average person though because it only defaults to Detect Lies or Psychology and not an attribute, so the "no double defaults" rule means people without either skill have no default in this.

B216 psychology does say "predict the general behavior of an individual" so that (defaulting to IQ-6) might be how an untrained person might predict a sucker-punch.

As B181 mentions "You can also use it to get a rough idea of what a party member is doing or about to do in a situation where he cannot communicate with you directly" it seems to imply that you would need direct communication with a person for Psychology to work...

So whereas Psychology might tell you the person you're talking to is about to punch you, Body Language might be needed to realize that guy sitting next to you who seems to be ignoring you, is actually preparing to attack you.

06-16-2019, 01:58 PM	#2
Plane Join Date: Aug 2018	Re: Examples of "surprise" from B393? Perhaps a successful "Body Language" roll could help prevent being surprised by that? This wouldn't help your average person though because it only defaults to Detect Lies or Psychology and not an attribute, so the "no double defaults" rule means people without either skill have no default in this. B216 psychology does say "predict the general behavior of an individual" so that (defaulting to IQ-6) might be how an untrained person might predict a sucker-punch. As B181 mentions "You can also use it to get a rough idea of what a party member is doing or about to do in a situation where he cannot communicate with you directly" it seems to imply that you would need direct communication with a person for Psychology to work... So whereas Psychology might tell you the person you're talking to is about to punch you, Body Language might be needed to realize that guy sitting next to you who seems to be ignoring you, is actually preparing to attack you.