On being Feared

[acrosome]

Originally Posted by whswhs

acrosome mentions have the character "dress down" as a way of foregoing the advantage. But being able to hide your belonging to a certain category of person isn't always that simple. Consider, for example, the classic bodyguard who puts on a nice suit and looks like a bodyguard wearing a nice suit that hides neither his muscles nor his shoulder holster. It might be possible for Nergul to hide her being a necromancer, but that could take, say, a Disguise roll—and again we have "you have to roleplay it and make some skill rolls." Or maybe Nergul can do the equivalent of the king showing up in a military uniform and being addressed as "general so-and-so" to short circuit some of the protocol; that might be a way to use Savoir-Faire.

But the bodyguard doesn't have Social Regard. We're talking about a CEO, or a bishop, or some such. Dressing like a teamster would work just fine for such folks. Just take him out of his finery and put him in painter's coveralls and how would you recognize the pope, if you don't know his face?