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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LurkAway" data-source="post: 5738200" data-attributes="member: 6685059">Because of his level or because of his fame?Yes, let's be honest. Take 2 equally talented singers (ie., same singing level). One gets on American Idol and one stays out of the spotlight. Do they both get a diplomacy bonus because of their level? Does the former get a diplomacy bonus if I never watch American Idol?Getting to a high level might offer potential for fame, but I think that branding and marketing, how you advertise your 'level' is the clincher.For every story (in fantasy or real-life) of a hero who basks in the rewards of fame, I think there's another story where the hero is unknown and unloved.To me it seems, you get a diplomacy bonus if you're famous and you're fortunate that the person in any one locale has seen you or has heard of you and believes you are who you say you are.I think no edition of D&D has an instant fame-spreading medium, allowing the common citizen to recognize the faces of heroes, like TV and Internet. I'm pretty sure that's missing in all D&D. Being recognized at your local pub is one thing...There are stories passed, of course, being passed around orally, from village to village, but with all the different stories out there, all jumbled together like typical myths and tall tales, I just cannot picture a teenage girl in the Village of Holly, who sees a mud-splattered battered bloodied dangerous-looking fighter and assumes "Oh, my, this is not a knight returning from war, this is no mere bandit or maurauder, no, that is Michael Jordan, as I imagined in my head in the story that my ma told me who heard it from her neighbour who heard it from the shoeshiner who heard from the bartender in the village yonder who heard it from... yes, the details of his face, and his armour (which never changes), all come clearly to me now through that vague, possibly embellished, possibly inaccurate tale and I definitely recognize this man!!!!" [rushes off to greet the dangerous-looking warrior]</blockquote>

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