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Old 09-24-2014, 02:38 PM   #10
sir_pudding
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Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Animal / human / Plant / Spirit Empathy, Empath Ta

I really dislike Animal Empathy. It lets you use the same influence skills on non-sapients that you can use on sapients, however somehow these become different skills when you do this: Sex Appeal lets you convince a Goose that complying with you will help it find a mate, but you can't use Sex Appeal to convince a person of the same thing. This also means that you can't easily make a person who manipulates non-sapients without good skills in manipulating sapients too, which seems to make a common enough archetype difficult. I think I'd much prefer it if Animal Empathy just let you use Animal Handling as a cinematic Influence skill.
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