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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzeentch" data-source="post: 1210305" data-attributes="member: 13222">-- Memetics is a cross-disciplinary school of knowledge and would probably be best served as Knowledge: Memetics or even Profession: Memetics. It should probably qualify for skill synergy with a number of skills such as Bluff, Diplomacy and Sense Motive. You use the skill itself to craft new memes (probably want to wait until Toxic Memes comes out with the "memecrafting" rules you can adapt).-- I would say that crafting memes (as in, the 'thought virus' carefully engineered and planned type) is not possible without memetics. Untrained memetics is the realm of Bluff, Diplomacy, etc.-- Also keep in mind that in TS memetics is NOT mind control. It works in large populations and is not targeted at individuals. It does not cause your head to explode if you hear a memetically crafted joke or force a noble Paladin to change alignment (Memecrafter: "The Dark Side is more powerful then the Light Side!" Goody Goody: "D'oh! You're so right! The pieces all fall into place! Let's go kill some Jawas!"). It's a more scientific and substantial development of advertising, psychology and cultural anthropology. Some fiction takes the idea of memetics and makes them linguistic weapons.</blockquote>