08-14-2018, 05:50 AM | #21 |
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Re: Using Erotic Art Skill
Though chefs (or courtesans for that matter), who were fluent in English, French, and Spanish would probably find themselves with a rich variety of employment opportunities.
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08-14-2018, 10:33 AM | #22 |
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Re: Using Erotic Art Skill
I find it odd that it doesn't default from Sex Appeal. It's a cliche that 'the most sensitive erogenous zone is the brain' but in my experience it's often true. Most of the work in great sex (even fairly technical BDSM stuff) is in presentation and reading your partners.
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08-14-2018, 10:40 AM | #23 |
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Re: Using Erotic Art Skill
I'm not sure that it should have defaults at all. After all, it represents some rather specific knowledge that isn't necessarily widely available.
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08-14-2018, 11:44 AM | #24 |
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Re: Using Erotic Art Skill
I don't think most of the sex workers who I know would be making job rolls against Erotic Art in GURPS. (Maybe the ones who spend an extended period of time hands-on with one client).
I would probably call for an Erotic Art roll to make a partner really sleepy before you steal the crown jewels of Strackenz or the Kist of Avlen. A professional skill might be a good way to cover knowledge of birth control and safer sex, all the local laws and customs which they have to work around, local places to work and their advantages and disadvantages, advertising and the laws and customs which affect that ...
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08-14-2018, 11:47 AM | #25 |
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Re: Using Erotic Art Skill
The description in the Basic Set ('advanced sexual technique') makes it seem like it's only for weird stuff, but Social Engineering strongly implies that it is the skill for 'vanilla' sex too.
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08-14-2018, 12:30 PM | #26 |
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Re: Using Erotic Art Skill
Most people seem to get by at DX-5, for better or worse.
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08-14-2018, 12:44 PM | #27 |
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08-14-2018, 12:55 PM | #28 |
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Re: Using Erotic Art Skill
Sex Appeal is described pretty explicitly: It's the ability to suggest your own sexual availability or interest as a way to get other people to give you what you want. "What you want" doesn't have to be sex and you can get sex by methods other than Sex Appeal. But also, people who aren't particularly good at social manipulation or who would never overtly come on to people may still know where the erogenous zones are, how to judge a partner's responses, how to time their own responses, and so on. So I don't think either skill is a prerequisite for the other.
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08-14-2018, 12:56 PM | #29 |
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Re: Using Erotic Art Skill
My take on this is that basic sexual technique is Erotic Art+5, which equates to DX (or Per or HT or whatever) if you haven't made a study of it.
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08-14-2018, 01:04 PM | #30 |
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Re: Using Erotic Art Skill
"Advanced technique" can involve doing ordinary things better.
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