03-25-2011, 06:20 AM | #11 | |
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Re: Resistance to Sex Appeal
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03-25-2011, 06:23 AM | #12 | |
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03-25-2011, 06:31 AM | #13 | |
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One of the Reasons why I bought Seduction Tolerance (modeled on Alcohol Tolerance 1cp/level) (3e IIRC mebbie 1e) back in the day when I was running a priest who really needed not to. (Former Merc Priest for God of War...Sex allowed but Not Until Married. And with the Lifestyle of a PC....)
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03-25-2011, 06:33 AM | #14 |
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Re: Resistance to Sex Appeal
Well there are the Disads and a lot of GMs even have a written character backstory to refer to...so it isnt necessarily as nebulous as that...
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03-25-2011, 06:36 AM | #15 | |
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But as commented above, Sex Appeal isn't just about getting the person into bed (or a discreet summerhouse in the rose garden). It's the skill in use when Cameron Diaz smiles sweetly up at you and asks if she can just nip in and use the employees' bathroom, because she's desperate. The clanking noise in her purse is almost certainly not high-tech surveillance/hacking kit... And yes, pretty people, along with the other kinds I listed above, will have developed a resistance. Imagine Cameron turning up to a party. She's Beautiful, Very Wealthy (multimillionaire many times over), High Status (major movie star)... How many sleazebags will be trying it on? Of course she's going to have some resistance! The question is how to model it? It could be a new skill, which you could develop to a very high skill, or some other approach. It's up to you whether you choose to penalise an attempt at Sex Appeal (penalty to the success roll) or boost the chance to resist it (have a better Will roll to resist). And it will work better if it is separate form the normal Will roll, as the examples above make clear very well. Otherwise every beautiful person would have either a huge Will or a very loose reputation. |
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03-25-2011, 06:42 AM | #16 |
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Re: Resistance to Sex Appeal
Depends on your point of view...if the above is true than poor Cam may be very lonely. A practitioner with skill may BE a scumbag but the skill lets him appear to be something different...
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03-25-2011, 06:42 AM | #17 |
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03-25-2011, 06:44 AM | #18 |
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Re: Resistance to Sex Appeal
Agreed and perhaps a good dose of the Detect Lies skill. ;->
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03-25-2011, 07:00 AM | #19 | ||
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As a good example, in a 3e game one of the PCs had a quirk "Loves Heads" and an unknown enemy who was sending a string of assassins out after him. A redhead approached his character right after they made it to the town center and started flirted him up, the player yelled out "Dang! I'm going get stabbed with an Icepick during sex, aren't I?", but his character still went into the hotel with her due her high skill and his low will plus the fact that he had been drinking. CP were dolled out for good roleplaying.
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03-25-2011, 07:08 AM | #20 |
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Re: Resistance to Sex Appeal
Lech are so much worth because for the first people don't have to use sex appeal on you to get you to go after 'em. And having to hit on the kings daughter can lead to all kinds of trouble.
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heterosexuality, homosexuality, kromm explanation, new skill, sex appeal, social engineering |
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