[Social Engineering] Hinting, Elicitation, and Fortune Telling

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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

I'd rather refrain from further skill bloat.

Not that I thought about it, I recalled that an advocate is already canonically listed as using three skills on the job as actual prerequisites: Law, Diplomacy and Public Speaking. Of course, I see nothing wrong with lawyers using other skills as appropriate to the situation (e.g. the aforementioned Interrogation, or Detect Lies etc.).

I looked at doing a Courtroom Tactics style for Civil Arts, but the trouble was that there were too many different legal systems with different procedures for presenting a case. But the basic logic of the advocate trying to influence the decision maker to decide in favor of the client goes back at least to Aristotle.

Bill Stoddard