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<blockquote data-quote="Tuft" data-source="post: 5983206" data-attributes="member: 60045">After 4E failing for us, my GM has been running his Feng Shuei-derived homebrew.He uses a simple way of spreading the social play around in that *each and every skill* can be used as for a social check in the appropriate context. You can use your shoot skill when talking to military personnel or gun nerds, melee skill when talking to martial artists, maneuver skill when talking to acrobats, etc. The two social skills, charm and impress, can be used in all contexts, but with different interaction flavour.For example, in a sci-fi setting, when we needed to gain entry to a particular building, one character noted that the planetary military had an office in the same building. He reasoned that there ought to be at least one member of that office's staff that was a member of the lokal gun club. So he went out to the shooting range to make friends, using his Shoot skill.In my personal opinion, having each skill have an explicit and clearly defined social element works better than &quot;doing push-ups to impress the duke&quot;, and this is after trying both approaches...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tuft, post: 5983206, member: 60045"] After 4E failing for us, my GM has been running his Feng Shuei-derived homebrew. He uses a simple way of spreading the social play around in that *each and every skill* can be used as for a social check in the appropriate context. You can use your shoot skill when talking to military personnel or gun nerds, melee skill when talking to martial artists, maneuver skill when talking to acrobats, etc. The two social skills, charm and impress, can be used in all contexts, but with different interaction flavour. For example, in a sci-fi setting, when we needed to gain entry to a particular building, one character noted that the planetary military had an office in the same building. He reasoned that there ought to be at least one member of that office's staff that was a member of the lokal gun club. So he went out to the shooting range to make friends, using his Shoot skill. In my personal opinion, having each skill have an explicit and clearly defined social element works better than "doing push-ups to impress the duke", and this is after trying both approaches... [/QUOTE]

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