The Adams Manor (P/T)
Jul 16, 2014 23:45:08 GMT -7
Post by The Doctor on Jul 16, 2014 23:45:08 GMT -7
Learning Acting Skill 5 TP, 1 Die RollActing
Rank: "E" (5 TP at all times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: Acting enables a character to skillfully portray various roles.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Acting is most often used as a form of entertainment, though it can also be useful in aiding a disguise or pulling a scam. A skilled actor knows how to research their role in order to provide a realistic portrayal to include mannerisms, speech patterns, dialect or jargon. The Acting skill also confers a cumulative 5% bonus (per level above Unskilled) to Disguise skill check rolls. The list below gives examples of Mastery and what the character can do.
Unskilled Give a stereotyped performance.
Novice Pretend to be a person whose background is not too dissimilar from the character’s own.
Average Play a role convincing to an audience not overly familiar with the part he’s portraying.
Advanced By observing and interacting with a member of a class or profession, he can pass himself off as said.
Expert Can independently ‘invent’ a role such as a lord, member of a cult, wealthy merchant, etc., and can dress and act the part with such skill that he can pass as that person.
Master Can successfully imitate any person well enough to fool anyone not intimately familiar with the person (barring visual familiarity).
Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---
Current Skill 55/125
The Doctor began to remember something he noticed throughout the years of lieing. It was somewhat funny how it worked. The Doctor at a young age slowly began to figure out that in order to make a lie successful, it was to bring the lie up before being questioned about the matter.
It was always better to lie to a person in advance than to have the person question about the topic beforehand. This was especially useful for those who were considered nosey, and wish to get to the bottom of things. A person who discovers a misdeed or has prior knowledge before explaining could deduce what happened to a reasonable degree before ever having to question the liar.
This makes convincing that more difficult.
The Doctor remembered an incident that happened. When he was a young child there was a last piece of pie his father was saving for until he got home. He told the family not to eat the last piece. The Doctor's father kept the piece of pie out on a counter.
Well the Doctor as a child could not help himself and gobbled the pie up even though his father told the family not to. As his father came home the young Doctor laid on the couch reading a good book. Seeing his father enter he slowly looked up from his book and without a beat made a comment that the family Dog ate the last piece of pie.
His father walked into the kitchen to discover the pie was gone. Upset at the action he did not scold the dog luckily. However if the Doctor had said nothing, his father may have come out of the kitchen angry before assuming one of the family members ate it. Since the Doctor was the closest to his father at the time, he himself could have been the brunt of the force even though he did eat the last piece of pie. If his father was angry at the Doctor then the chances of his father being less receptive to the Doctor making a defense was incredibly high.
