[Social Engineering] Hostage Negotiator Style

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by Donny Brook

Play for time seems more like something that would fall under the Acting skill, and seems like it is incongruous with the honesty attributes you list as well.

I see that as endemic to the genre.


In most Negotiator type films (I don't know about books) you have two types:

Honest and Above Board to a fault and Honest But Will Lie A Little to Save Hostages. I see 'playing for time' as being an occasional acceptable lie to the first type and SOP to the second.