[Basic] Skill of the week: Public Speaking

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by johndallman

I don't think I've ever seen this skill used by a PC, although the Weird War II campaign I'm in has potential for it. What have you done with Public Speaking?

Funny - I think of it as a skill that gets fairly regular use. You may recall that steampunk convention demo game I ran for the Wednesday group, John; I think that I handled the hasty end-of-evening wrap-up by requiring a contest of Public Speaking between the party faceman and the mad Catholic priest who was trying to turn the village against them...

I seem to keep playing geeks and solipsists at the moment, so I don't take it often, But when I'm designing convention demo PC groups, I tend to stick this skill on the leader/faceman/priest types, and I think it gets used fairly regularly in those games to get the archetypal bunch of dubious locals on side.