[Basic] What skills for a long con or ...

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by whswhs

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I think the primary skill for a long con is either Acting or Psychology (Applied) to get the mark off guard and/or tempt them. I think that each specific con starts out as one of those. Then if you make a specialty of it you can turn it into a technique and buy it up from the primary skill.

If this is an actual con rather than the undercover work also mentioned there's soem means of tranferring wealth from the mark. That probably needs Merchant or possibly Finance for very large value cons dealing with that sort of thing.

The undercover job still need Actign to carry out but planning would use Streetwise, Criminology or both.

At any rate you're going to need multiple rolls v. multiple skills but I believe the Skills in question probably already exist.

If your really want just one "Skill" to roll agaisnt I think you're looking at Con!.