04-03-2021, 11:41 AM | #11 | |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
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04-03-2021, 12:46 PM | #12 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
That should only really happen if either a) the "diplomat" doesn't actually have a diplomatic passport or b) the host nation does not respect the diplomatic privileges from the diplomat's nation.
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04-03-2021, 12:50 PM | #13 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
Or if the country the diplomat serves is extremely strict about not using it except for official purposes.
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04-03-2021, 01:15 PM | #14 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
Depending on how you're defining 'useful'. Only using the diplomatic pouch for its official purposes is a big problem if your campaign doesn't actually have any interest in the diplomat's job. It might barely be any constraint at all if the proper use of the pouch aligns with the focus of play.
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04-04-2021, 02:35 AM | #15 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
That's a Catch-22: it can't know whether the pouch is being used for official purposes or not because it can't know the contents of the pouch without looking inside. So the only way to deny the pouch restrictions against search . . . is to outright deny the pouch restrictions against search.
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04-04-2021, 04:00 AM | #16 | |
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04-04-2021, 06:01 AM | #18 | |
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04-04-2021, 06:20 AM | #19 | |
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Which is no problem if you're a classic cultural-attache-hem-hem, but a problem if you're a junior trade official trying to get their superhero mask and utility belt into Latveria.
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04-04-2021, 06:38 AM | #20 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
I’m now also imagining Legal Immunity taken with a Requires a Skill Roll limitation. (Administration? Law? Fast Talk?) Your Immunity is frankly questionable, but argue hard enough and it works.
Benefit of Clergy seems to have devolved into an interesting slightly limited version of the advantage by the Renaissance...
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