11-24-2011, 12:36 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Connoisseur (Wine) and Connoisseur (Whiskey)
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11-24-2011, 12:56 PM | #12 |
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Re: Connoisseur (Wine) and Connoisseur (Whiskey)
I like Connoisseur skills mostly because they're great background color that can also have uses on adventures: impressing NPCs, making a little extra money, and identifying obscure clues ("He wouldn't have noticed the cyanide easily, as this vintage has almond-cherry overtones."). Still, as I see them as background color, I think it's important to let players choose the specialties they see as key distinctions for their PCs. In my current campaign, players have bought Connoisseur (Fashion), Connoisseur (Fast Food & Street Food), Connoisseur (Music), and Connoisseur (Vehicles), but I'd have no issues with, say, Connoisseur (Hats), Connoisseur (Food), Connoisseur (Rock n' Roll), or Connoisseur (Sports Cars). To make the narrower specialties equally valuable, the more specialized character gets +2 in Contests if his specialty is specifically applicable.
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11-24-2011, 01:47 PM | #13 |
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Re: Connoisseur (Wine) and Connoisseur (Whiskey)
Connoisseur (Cheese) would also be a good one.
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11-24-2011, 04:57 PM | #14 |
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Re: Connoisseur (Wine) and Connoisseur (Whiskey)
I'd be afraid any game with such a character would devolve into a reenactment of the cheese shop sketch. I know my players' tendencies.
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11-24-2011, 05:39 PM | #15 |
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11-24-2011, 06:50 PM | #16 | |
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11-24-2011, 11:14 PM | #17 | |
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This works fine for levels of Theology too, or anything else where you can make reasonable looking guesses about how many similar smaller units there are in a broader specialty.
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11-24-2011, 11:59 PM | #18 |
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Re: Connoisseur (Wine) and Connoisseur (Whiskey)
Insert obligatory Monty Python joke here.
But comparing, say, Spam to Vienna Sausages? That could derail a session for two hours in the one (Planescape) game I'm in.
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11-25-2011, 06:35 AM | #19 |
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Being Bavarian, I've got Connoisseur(Sausages) as part of my racial template, so the mere fact that you'd consider them part of the "canned" family could make me rant a couple of hours…
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11-25-2011, 07:54 AM | #20 | |
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