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[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Maybe you're saying that because you have Incompetence in it? ^_^

(I used to consider the existence of Influence skills cinematic, hehe.)

Are you confusing it with lucid dreaming, which while real isn't very useful as anything other than entertainment. The vast majority of dreams occur during REM, and humans only spend around 40 minutes there a night. So even cinematic dreaming doesn't have much time to work with.

When young, I considered influence skills as under handed mind control. My two brothers are masters at them, though in gurps terms one has boat loads of innate charisma and the other a manipulation skill talent.
Now I realize that it's all just the normal interaction game of social animals.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Are you confusing it with lucid dreaming, which while real isn't very useful as anything other than entertainment. The vast majority of dreams occur during REM, and humans only spend around 40 minutes there a night. So even cinematic dreaming doesn't have much time to work with.

Lucid Dreaming is the 3e name. In 4e it is the Dreaming skill. (It doesn't require TbaM either.)

[simply Nathan]

I thought Sex Appeal was cinematic until I got a girlfriend. Maybe I'm just Demisexual with an appreciation for the visual beauty of the female form.

[JCurwen3]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Are you confusing it with lucid dreaming, which while real isn't very useful as anything other than entertainment.

Eh, I'd argue for some decent self-therapeutic value if you use lucid dreaming to dream dreams that are a bit more than purely entertainment.

May be worth reducing accumulated Stress or Derangement by one (if you use those rules from Horror), or helping with some minor, short-term effects from failed Fright Checks.