David_Aselrik
Newbie
OrcFighterFTW said:If you can learn OOG skill with weapons with practice, you can also learn OOG social and diplomatic skills with practice. As an earlier post mentioned, the rules are for things that need clear explanations for simulated effects; it's not to completely level the playing field for OOG skills (for example, the rule book has an example of not playing a bard if you can't even carry a tune).
If this skill is something that interests you and you want to increase your OOG skill in it, there are many books available on negotiation strategy and theory- check out your local library or bookstore. Personally, I recommend the best-selling "Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury of the Harvard Negotiation Project.
The thing is that you can turn your first sentence around on itself. "If you can learn IG skill with weapons through BP, you should also be able to learn IG social and diplomatic skills with BP." In no way am I advocating social skills bought with BP. What I believe is that the very mechanics of how the game is played should be enhanced with more social opportunities.
Imagine I'm a new player and I tell you I want to become the best Shield Fighter I can be. Can you think of all the things you'd tell me about? All the IG skills, the OOG skills, the sections in the rulebook about that.
Now imagine I'm a new player and I tell you I want to become the best Merchant I can be. What kinds of things will you tell me about? How does the game engage a player like that? (This is a very real question, one of the people I recently recruited wants to be a merchant and not much else).