12-12-2018, 06:44 PM | #31 | |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
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12-12-2018, 08:13 PM | #32 |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
Yes, quite. Voice is specified as giving bonuses to particular Influence (and other skills), so it follows that it does not give bonuses to the skills not listed. Sex Appeal is listed as getting bonuses from appearance, and double penalties for negative appearance, so other Influence skills that don't list appearance presumably don't gain from it. You can't just say, "Oh, well, I have a total of +N in reaction modifiers, so I make this roll at +N."
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12-12-2018, 09:15 PM | #33 |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
It would also result in talents like Allure giving doubled bonuses if you used a skill they covered on someone that they gave a reaction bonus against.
B359 notes that: "Modifiers: All your personal reaction modifiers (although the GM or the skill description may rule that some modifiers do not apply)...", which I take to mean that when I read the description for a skill (for example, Fast-Talk), and it says that Voice works, and lists some disads that apply, but mentions no other advantages, etc. that Fast-Talk is not intended to get a bonus from Reputation or Appearance except in exceptional circumstances.
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12-12-2018, 10:37 PM | #34 |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
Voice and so on give bonuses to skills even when those skills are not being used as Influence skills. That doesn't mean the general statement about reaction modifiers applying to influence skills is not also true.
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12-12-2018, 11:00 PM | #35 |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
I don't think it's reasonable to suppose that Voice gives you a bonus to Influence rolls based on Intimidation, nor probably on Streetwise. I suppose I could see it working with Savoir-Faire (High Society), but not necessarily with the other version.
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12-13-2018, 12:51 AM | #36 | |
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12-13-2018, 03:17 AM | #37 | |
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12-13-2018, 03:57 AM | #38 | |
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As for (almost) always counting reaction modifiers for influence rolls - if this is done, Charisma isn't just mostly better than 'influence talents' (Smooth Operator, Allure, etc.), but is insanely better.
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12-13-2018, 04:22 AM | #39 | |
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As a side note, depending on your singing style you might have learned some quite Intimidating vocal tricks anyways - but they wouldn't be good for synergizing with, say, Sex Appeal. Well, not unless the person you're using it on has a thing for death metal growls (valid quirk?). Seems like a straight up synergy attempt though.
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12-13-2018, 06:33 AM | #40 | |
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Sure, there are skill rolls which aren't Influence Rolls, but those aren't normally directly influenced by reaction mods either (though some traits may give both the RR bonus and a direct skill bonus, which of course do not stack). |
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