09-11-2018, 04:06 AM | #21 |
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Re: Empathy with low IQ
I believe that there is a mistaken conflation of two different effects of the advantage in question. If you read the text, the lying part is in the paragraph relating to first impressions, not the paragraph relating to telling the whether someone is telling the truth. So, if someone failed on a first impression roll, I would tell them that the Queen appears to be secretly in love when she is not, that she is happy due to being pregnant when she is neither happy or pregnant, etc. In any case, I am hiding the results of any information roll because I do not want the player to know that their characters are suffering from mistaken impressions.
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09-11-2018, 05:21 AM | #22 |
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Re: Empathy with low IQ
I created a separate tread for people with good ideas about what the GM might say when the Empathy roll fails:
Brainstorm: False Empathy plots
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09-12-2018, 01:59 AM | #23 | |
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This isn't like torture, where you can get specific data and then test if it was right or not. If 50% of the time you think non-possessed people are possessed by ghosts and possessed people were non-possessed, you wouldn't find it useful when you're actually able to correctly detect them without knowing which are the correct times. "Skills for Everyone" in GURPS Powers could be a solution. If it's a skill instead of an attribute check then you can get a +5 bonus to it by spending 30x as long on the task. Someone who knows from experience that their hunches are usually wrong (or only right half the time) could know not to trust their gut unless they spend 30 seconds examining that gut. |
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09-12-2018, 02:59 AM | #24 | |
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* Which if the Character has an IQ of 10 or lower, Sensitive would almost always be wrong. |
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09-12-2018, 10:20 AM | #25 |
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Re: Empathy with low IQ
If my brother says he's 100% certain, then he is without fail, wrong. He kept doing it for a couple of years even after I called him on it. Eventually he stopped, but for a while he was like a reverse psychic.
So I wouldn't even call this form of sensitive unrealistic.
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09-12-2018, 10:38 AM | #26 | |
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09-12-2018, 02:49 PM | #27 | |
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Anecdotally: I have a fantastically poor memory for names. If I'm trying to remember a name and can't, then usually a letter pops into my head, and I'll be 100% certain that their name starts with, or has that letter in the first 2-3 letters. I'm always 100% wrong. In fact, I'm always so wrong that the letter is usually not even in their name at all. I used to cling to that letter and try everything to figure out a name from there. But I eventually realized "Hey, every time a letter pops in my head like this, it's completely wrong", so now, I immediately discard that letter and try names without said letter. Now, I usually figure out the forgotten name in a few minutes (instead of randomly several days later after I've given up trying) or I never remember it. |
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09-12-2018, 03:53 PM | #28 | |
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09-12-2018, 04:53 PM | #29 |
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No. He was certain. He was just wrong whenever he was 100% certain.
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09-12-2018, 09:49 PM | #30 |
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Re: Empathy with low IQ
You're in luck whenever he is 100% certain when a lottery ticket does not guarantee the jackpot.
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