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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Body Language
Clarity, interest value, and plausibility are subtly interwoven aspects of the skill once you get Writing past default.
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09-07-2014, 11:00 AM | #12 | |
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I could barely imagine suspecting someone of written lies only if given mass quantities of material to pore over. It's that sheer volume of information that makes me prefer to put it in Intelligence Analysis. Of all the unrealistic things I see on the television program Criminal Minds, Reeds' personality and deception analysis of writing seems the most extreme. ... I assumed your description of Body Language in that post was as to how it differed from Detect Lies. So the line about acting made me curious why or why not Detect Lies mentioned it. I couldn't remember off the top of my head, so...
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Body Language
-3 (SE37). You're using the skill of analysing the lie (Detect Lies), not the facial cues that happen to accompany it (Body Language).
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Writing could be used to convince someone of truths they aren't comfortable with. People will try to find reasons to think you're inconsistent or unconsciously or even consciously lying. We all do this, not just conspiracy nuts.
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09-07-2014, 11:24 AM | #16 | |
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If at all possible, Detect Lies is a social skill working off humans' "tells" as they unconsciously try to tell the truth. Weird, my brain simply ignored the parenthetical Detect Lies in your post.
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I added Detect Lies after your post. My point is a comparison of BL and Empathy. |
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09-07-2014, 11:53 AM | #18 |
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That would be the penalty for only hearing the subject's voice but not seeing them. Neither seeing nor hearing them means at least a double penalty.
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09-07-2014, 11:55 AM | #19 | |
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Without even getting into the fact that if your definition of virginity is different than mine you would come to the wrong conclusions even if you come to the correct conclusion that I'm telling the truth. If you had scores of my writing about my sexual experiences you could further pin down the most likely veracity of such statements. That's not detect lies as it only involves conflicting information and logical analysis, not hoodoo interpersonal mind reading. I consider empathy as it's written in Gurps to be supernatural, so I don't have a problem with combining it with a more realistic Body Language skill. Interesting conflicts may arise if your psychic empathy tells you someone is off but Body Language says perfectly normal. That could give you more information than either alone. That combination would pique my interests and inner alarm bells in any supernatural game. What types of setting creatures can so fully mask their alien nature? Going the other way, BL says off kilter, but Empathy says nervous but normal which leads to the likelihood of social disabilities.
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;) I wonder if a super intelligent dog could train for such a penalized but still possible skill use.
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