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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7894556" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>Not at all, I keep telling you this and giving you examples of how it doesn't but you just keep repeating it like it's some unquestionable truth. Grab one of those motorized carts & visit costco on a busy weekend. Push a food cart up to many work sites & watch how far you get while you still have hotdogs/sandwitches/etc. buy or Print out a verizon/att/etc shirt, add a proper hat, clipboard & lineman set... people will fall all over themseles to escort you int secure areas then wander off while you check readings & argue on your cellphone or walkie talkie with someone. Show up with a clipboard,l, hardhat, & tapemeasure at a construction site & don't do anything dangerous while taking notes & wandering around, watch how fast "I'm just doing the survey for $ActualPerson at the code office" makes you <em>invisible</em>. Wander around a hotel barefoot in pajamas, moving with purpose... act a little drunk stoned orconfused if questioned. Walk into a walmart <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-dressed-armored-truck-driver-walks-out-walmart-75-000-n387751" target="_blank">dressed like a security guard</a> from loomis & leave in a chevy lumia after being given a bag with 75k in it. Walk into a <a href="https://www.foodbeast.com/news/vendor-beer-thief/" target="_blank">store dressed like a vendor & walk out with <em>16</em>cases of beer</a> between customers... so on & so forth. </p><p></p><p>All of these kind of things should fall under int & wisdom skills that don't exist or int/wis+skills that do exist but don't account for these kinds of things. The result is that expertise stealth & expertise persuade/deception are absurdly powerful & badly applied too often while walling off characters who are skilled in things that allow this kind of activity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7894556, member: 93670"] Not at all, I keep telling you this and giving you examples of how it doesn't but you just keep repeating it like it's some unquestionable truth. Grab one of those motorized carts & visit costco on a busy weekend. Push a food cart up to many work sites & watch how far you get while you still have hotdogs/sandwitches/etc. buy or Print out a verizon/att/etc shirt, add a proper hat, clipboard & lineman set... people will fall all over themseles to escort you int secure areas then wander off while you check readings & argue on your cellphone or walkie talkie with someone. Show up with a clipboard,l, hardhat, & tapemeasure at a construction site & don't do anything dangerous while taking notes & wandering around, watch how fast "I'm just doing the survey for $ActualPerson at the code office" makes you [I]invisible[/I]. Wander around a hotel barefoot in pajamas, moving with purpose... act a little drunk stoned orconfused if questioned. Walk into a walmart [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-dressed-armored-truck-driver-walks-out-walmart-75-000-n387751']dressed like a security guard[/URL] from loomis & leave in a chevy lumia after being given a bag with 75k in it. Walk into a [URL='https://www.foodbeast.com/news/vendor-beer-thief/']store dressed like a vendor & walk out with [I]16[/I]cases of beer[/URL] between customers... so on & so forth. All of these kind of things should fall under int & wisdom skills that don't exist or int/wis+skills that do exist but don't account for these kinds of things. The result is that expertise stealth & expertise persuade/deception are absurdly powerful & badly applied too often while walling off characters who are skilled in things that allow this kind of activity. [/QUOTE]
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