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Revision as of 23:41, 20 April 2014

Your influence attribute indicates your charisma, personality, and the overall development of your allure.

Influence Skills

Main article: Skill

Your influence control is used to determine the default score for all your influence skills: Command, Negotiate, and Perform. The starting score is 5, plus your control. You may spend points to increase specific skills. If your control improves, all influence skill scores likewise increase. Modifiers for influence count towards all influence skills as well.

Skill Description
Command Intimidation and leadership.
Negotiate Diplomacy and trade.
Perform Art and deception.

Insight

Main article: Insight

Insight is a special form of retort. You may use a Guard against any attack that targets you. You roll your defense using your influence against the attacker's check. Range, language, and other penalties apply to your check. If you win the attack is stopped before it happens, no ammunition is used and no other targets are affected.

Language

Main article: Language

Your influence control is the number of languages you can learn. You can leave languages unassigned, which allows you to learn new languages during the game. You add a tension Penalty (-2) on any influence or influence skill checks against a target who does not share a language with you. The languages you know also reflect your cultural background, and affect what knowledge is common, obscure, or simply unknown to you. You may learn a language by dedicating a full respite to it and making a successful influence check.

Sway

Main article: Sway

You have sway equal to your influence score. Every scorn result you take eliminates one of your sway. Excess scorn causes a trouble check. Having sway at all marks you as a personality in any dispute. Your social rank is equal to your current sway. If you have the highest sway you are either the leader or the largest threat to the current leader. Certain abilities add benefits to followers within range equal to your sway. Note that if your sway has been reduced to 0 it still affects adjacent Areas. Some circumstances or abilities require that you have more sway than your target.

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Trouble

Main article: Trouble

When you suffer insult that isn't absorbed by your own sway bubbles (see Sway above) you must roll a trouble check against your influence score. If the check fails, you'll gain a Trouble marker. If the attack deals more than one insult, your success margin must equal or beat the number of extra insult to avoid the marker. Every 10 insult automatically causes a marker, and then you check for any remaining insult normally.

Example: Pounded Pete has an influence score of 12, and 12 sway. He is struck by 15 insult. First, his 12 sway bubbles are eliminated, leaving 3 insult. He must make a trouble check with a target of 12, but he needs a success margin of 2 or more. Pete rolls a 10 and barely succeeds, avoiding a Trouble marker. Pete is hit again for another 15 insult. With no sway bubbles left to absorb any, he suffers it all. The first 10 automatically cause a Trouble marker. That leaves 5 insult left, so Pete is rolling against his usual 12- target, but he needs a success margin of 4 or higher to avoid a second Trouble marker.

Wit

Main article: Wit

Influence attacks use the Perform skill against a target within close range. If you are attacking with words you use your taunt effect, regardless of whether you are insulting, slandering, flattering, misdirecting, or so on. A taunt rolls effect dice equal to your influence control. Green results deal no effect at all, blue results deal scorn, and red results deal agony.

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Attack Tier Keywords Dice Blue/Red

Purchasing Influence

Score Points Control
7 0 1
8 0 1
9 0 1
10 1 2
11 1 2
12 1 2
13 2 3
14 2 3
15 2 3
16(*) 3 4

(*) Only available from a 15.

See Also


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