One social trait, multiple society?

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Originally Posted by Kuroshima

One thing that surprised me in Social Engineering, is how many of the pieces were already in the basic set, almost overlooked by all. Part of the genius of SE is making them all fit together.

I learned a huge amount about the Basic Set by writing it, as I looked for every possible precedent for the mechanics of social encounters. A big part of that was looking at cases where there were two or more rules that seemed applicable to the same task, and figuring out the boundary conditions for when you would use one and when the other.

Bill Stoddard