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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Connoisseur
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11-30-2014, 09:49 AM | #22 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Connoisseur
I thought it was a weird Vampire: The Masquerade kind of thing?
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11-30-2014, 09:50 AM | #23 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Connoisseur
My character in a friend's current monster hunter one-shot has the BtVS equivalent: a point of Wildcard: Style. Since she also has Talentless, she can't do anything creative with clothes, accessories, or grooming, but she can tell where anyone else shops and she knows what's current or trendy.
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11-30-2014, 11:55 AM | #24 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Connoisseur
I read somewhere that "shaken vs stirred" was a cult argument among fans of the particular cocktail that Bond drank.
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11-30-2014, 12:04 PM | #25 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Connoisseur
I have yet to hear anyone say the Bond version was correct. It's always been how stirring is the proper best method of mixing it.
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11-30-2014, 12:12 PM | #26 |
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Anyway - I should point out that Connoisseur has applications in the Memetics rules in Changing Times (which is one reason why it shows up on some characters sheets in the Personnel Files series). Actually, it should be somewhat useful in any campaign in which some factions are powerful and subtle enough to employ insidious forms of propaganda (whether you call the underlying theories "memetics" or something else). Propaganda can be inserted as a payload into many forms of art. It's also useful to the sort of character that Broken Dreams calls an "Edgehunter". That's very appropriate to truly Gibsonian sort of cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk campaign. In a hyper-saturated media environment, an educated understanding of forms of media is often useful, whether you want to disrupt the media flow or acquire control of it.
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11-30-2014, 01:27 PM | #29 |
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Aaaand ... just as I'm posting this stuff. my media player, set to random, throws up "First We Take Manhattan".
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...
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11-30-2014, 01:36 PM | #30 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Connoisseur
Connoisseur (Music) and Connoisseur (Fashion) thy name is teen ;)
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