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Charm

An individual's ability to positively influence others by power of the spoken word. Starting from convincing a single individual to do something they might have done anyway, an individual progresses in this skill to become adept at leveraging the power of the spoken word to diffuse heated arguments in high-stakes political situations. Progression in this skill also comes with the ability to understand others’ motivations, needs and wants. This skill acts as a counterpart to Intimidation, which deals with influencing others through aggression and coercion rather than understanding and diplomacy. The success of this skill depends on a target’s Resolve.

Charm +0: You can maintain polite and friendly conversations with others but struggle to persuade anyone to do anything they wouldn’t already do.

Charm +1: You have a better understanding of people's emotions and can identify common ground in conversations, though persuading others may require more effort. You can haggle prices to a small degree.

Charm +2: You can come into a volatile situation and diffuse it with some effort, able to sway both sides of a debate. You can regularly convince people to change their opinion on something.

Charm +3: You can negotiate, empathize, and charm your way to mutually satisfying conclusions with ease. You can convince people to do things that they were once strongly against. Conflict de-escalation and mediation have become your forte.

Charm +4: A shrewd negotiator, an expert diplomat and a charismatic salesman: you hold the floor in high-power meetings. Able to navigate complex situations with multiple sides wanting different things, you find common ground and mutually beneficial solutions. Your debating skills can lead people to doubt their core beliefs

Charm +5: You sell sand on Tatooine. Anakin Skywalker is your best customer.

Related Feats: Bad Cop, Built Bridges, Crooked Smile, Cry No More, Fear Will Keep Them In Line, Fosh: Mockingbird, Golden Envoy Presence, Good Cop, I Know That Feel, Bro, Nagai: Soothing Siren, Silver Tongue I, Silver Tongue II, Silver Tongue III, Sociopath, The Pen is Mightier, True Colors, Your Reputation Precedes You, and Zeltron: Sun's Getting Real Low

Prerequisites: None

2023/11/08 / 2023/11/08
Intimidation

Your character's ability to force a target into acting a certain way, be it based on your demeanor or your reputation. Intimidation does not typically cause an individual to actively believe something different, it simply forces that individual into a course of action out of fear for their own survival and well being. Initially, this skill would allow an individual to bully a mentally weak target into an action he or she is hesitant to take, while subsequent levels of the skill allows an intimidator to coerce more unwilling targets into action or giving up sensitive information. This skill acts as a counterpart to Charm, which deals with influencing others through understanding and diplomacy rather than aggression and coercion. The success of this skill depends on a target’s Resolve.

Intimidation +0: You know that the promise of danger can sway others into action, but not enough to fashion those threats into a weapon of your own.

Intimidation +1: You have learned the effectiveness of threats towards individuals and the use of appearance in order to gain cooperation from others. While it can be useful against the weak minded, it would take longer than is worthwhile to influence others. You struggle to get good information out of others during interrogations.

Intimidation +2: Not only do you understand the effectiveness of physical threats towards an individual and non-verbal aggression, you also can leverage fairly apparent external factors like a nearby ally. Given enough uninterrupted time with a target, you can poke and prod until the cracks begin to form without actually having to follow through on your threats.

Intimidation +3: You have reached an efficiency with threats that is almost routine. You can gauge the weaknesses of a target and leverage their fears in just the right way to get your desired outcome in most situations. It is a mundane task to influence those of weaker minds, and it's only a matter of time for those of stronger wills once you find something to exploit. You may not be able to crack seasoned agents or spies into giving up valuable secrets, but you can extract most other information from them.

Intimidation +4: At this level, an experienced individual can weave threats, both physical and implied, like an emotional terrorist. You are skilled at knowing just what weakness to poke, which expression to wear, and how much leverage to apply in order to get the desired result from even a strong-willed target. You can crack seasoned agents or spies to give up valuable information.

Intimidation +5: No longer merely experienced, you have mastered the nuances involved in weaving any kind of threat to gain your desired results from a target. Even the smallest of openings can be touched upon and pried wide open to your methods, surgically applying leverage to the right weakness. You can extract the darkest, most sensitive secrets from the most hardened of spies.

Related Feats: A Warrior's Call, Bad Cop, Explosive Chicken, Fear Will Keep Them In Line, Go Ahead, Make My Day, Golden Envoy Presence, Good Cop, Is That The Best You Got?, Let Them Hate, So Long As They Fear, Resistance Is Futile, Silver Tongue I, Silver Tongue II, Silver Tongue III, Spoken Probing, You May Have Heard Of Me, and Zeltron: Sun's Getting Real Low

Prerequisites: None

2013/07/20 / 2023/11/08
Resolve

Resolve is your character's willpower and their ability to handle stress, keep a level head, and stand firm in the face of danger. It is also your character's mental resilience against both skills and the effects of Force-based intrusions of the mind such as Charm, Intimidation, Mind Trick, Suppression, Illusion, Telepathy, Terror, and Force Interrogation. The higher a character’s Resolve is, relative to an attack/threat Skill or Force Power, the less effective the attack's result is in conjunction with that character's skills. Only in the scenario of an extreme disparity in ability could Resolve outright prevent the onset of an ability.

Resolve +0: Basic willpower. You can resist the temptations of eating something unhealthy in favor of something healthy. Unless you're really really hungry. Sticks and stones can break your bones, but so can words.

Resolve +1: Idle threats bounce off of you, but a clear threat of danger can give you pause. Conflict between allies and foes alike won’t stress you out, as long as they don’t stretch out for an extended period of time.

Resolve +2: You can fend off stronger temptations such as substance addiction for short periods of time. You can keep calm while someone fires a blaster next to your ear on a battlefield or on the noisy bridge of a capital ship.

Resolve +3: You could quit an addictive substance by willpower alone. Words are wind.

Resolve +4: Your character can face down an angry rancor, in its den, without so much as blinking, and can think clearly on any battlefield, whether the odds are in your favor or not.

Resolve +5: You have been fighting a losing battle for weeks, but can still stand in the middle of a warzone facing a superior foe that outnumbers you 10-1 and has you surrounded without losing heart, and carry on the fight.

Related Feats: Barabel: Defensive Measures, Battle Mind I, Battle Mind II, Battle Mind III, Channel I, Channel II, Channel III, Envoy's Will, Is That The Best You Got?, Ivory Tower, La Resistance I, La Resistance I, La Resistance I, La Resistance II, Nine Out of Ten, Steel Curtain, This Is Where We Fight!, You Killed My Father, Prepare To Die, Zealot, and Zygerrian: Victory or Death

Prerequisites: None

2013/07/20 / 2023/11/30