A sucker born every minute...

[STARP_Social_Officer]

Barnam was right - there is indeed a sucker born every minute. And to reflect the fact that a good liar can usually recognise a bad one, and that a con artist knows a con when he sees one, we have a very basic house rule in our campaigns - anybody who has 5 ranks in the Bluff skill gets a +2 synergy bonus to Sense Motive, and vice versa.

Make sense?

 

[Griffith Dragonlake]

Barnam was right - there is indeed a sucker born every minute. And to reflect the fact that a good liar can usually recognise a bad one, and that a con artist knows a con when he sees one, we have a very basic house rule in our campaigns - anybody who has 5 ranks in the Bluff skill gets a +2 synergy bonus to Sense Motive, and vice versa.

Make sense?

I like it. You might want to adjust it so that for every 5 ranks rather than the first 5 ranks. This might encourage characters to put more points into Bluff & SM.

 

[Vrecknidj]

It seems to me that a skilled conman knows cons simply because he's seen so many. Just like a skilled martial artist can react to a punch.

And, it seems to me that if skilled conmen have a good Sense Motive check, it's because they know that, in order to avoid being Bluffed themselves, they'd had to put ranks in the skill.

Dave