12-13-2018, 11:07 AM | #51 | |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
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As far as Voice is concerned, the appeal to Darth Vader appears to be rhetoric rather than demonstration; as Aristotle says, where demonstration relies on induction (that is, comprehensive survey of the evidence), rhetoric relies on striking examples. But "Darth Vader is a memorable villain and his striking voice makes him so" does not mean that everyone with a resonant voice is capable of being intimidating. Nor does it mean that people without striking voices can't be intimidating. Indeed, a Disturbing Voice, with a harsh rasp, can just as well be intimidating. I'd also suggest that while a movie villain, or for that matter an opera villain, might well have a memorable voice, that doesn't necessarily mean that a person who is intimidating in the real world would have such a voice. "I'm not a terrifying monster, but I play one on TV" might be what's going on. In purely literary terms, the most memorably scary line I've read in fiction is "You're going to be thumbs, my dear," in Panshin's first Villiers novel. It wasn't described as being delivered in a basso profundo!
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12-13-2018, 11:10 AM | #52 |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
So would Scary Voice be narrow enough for a perk, or require a one-skill Talent?
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12-13-2018, 11:50 AM | #53 |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
There's the precedent of the perk that lets you speak in a quiet voice, and get a +1 to Intimidation, as if you had shouted. So I'd say a perk would be fine. Though if your voice is *always* scary, that might be a quirk instead: You try to flirt with someone, or buy a kilo of tea, and the other people reacts as if you had threatened them, often inconveniently.
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12-13-2018, 01:20 PM | #54 | |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
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Darth Vader is way taller than any Stormtrooper <https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-82f70841eb992e5bf35dd39f385b19e6>, and Luke Skywalker is "short for a Stormtrooper." Mark Hamill is 5'9". Darth Vader has that creepy breathing sound wherever he goes. Darth Vader wears black robes and a scary black mask, and so far as anyone knows no one has ever seen his face. Darth Vader is THE Sith Lord, with unknown and dangerous powers. Darth Vader is known to effortlessly kill underlings who fail him. Most of the time, Darth Vader is IN CHARGE. There may be someone behind him, but HE'S the guy in the field getting what he wants. Just his voice? There's way more than that. |
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12-13-2018, 02:04 PM | #55 | |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
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The Discworld Roleplaying Game, which is admittedly not mainline canon, but which is written by Phil Masters who has a pretty good understanding of how GURPS works, mentions in an example on page 74 that Attractive appearance would give a +1 bonus to an influence roll with Savoir-Faire (but not any other sort of roll with that skill), so there is that.
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12-15-2018, 03:11 PM | #56 |
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Re: When do you use Reaction Rolls?
I use reaction rolls a LOT in my games and they have allowed PC to bypass a LOT of possible combat scenarios. But I also give huge modifiers to them based on the situation(much larger than RAW, bot in positive and negative).
In my current campaign all the PCs are kind of influence monsters as they are each trying independently to gain a following to become gods. The lowest reaction bonus is +9(+situation modifiers like talents) and the highest is +27(+situation modifiers like talents). |
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