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Old 08-20-2010, 07:05 PM   #5
Daeglan
 
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Default Re: When does one use Scrounging?

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Originally Posted by Anaraxes View Post
How about the skill exhibited by Radar O'Reilly on M*A*S*H, various characters on "Baa Baa Black Sheep", or the James Gardner character in "The Great Escape", involving coming up with some needed item by whatever means, often via a perhaps complicated chain of trades, and often enough something somewhat underhanded? This could be a particular style of Merchant and occasional other skills like blackmail, but the details come across to me more as a special effect of Scrounging. Characters usually refer to the activity as "scrounging" but of course that doesn't mean much in game terms.
Probably a mix of skills. Scrounging to locate the desired item and social skills depending on how you are going to get it.
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