Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 131941" data-attributes="member: 546">Smear Campaign[Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You can attempt to ruin another’s reputation or instillhostility toward him in certain people.     Prerequisite: Cha 13.     Benefit: You can change other’s attitudes towardsomeone by spending time bad-mouthing him. Itusually takes at least one evening of carousing withthe targeted audience, similar to making a GatherInformation check. Characters normally makeCharisma checks to alter someone’s attitude for thebetter. You can alter it for the worse with your ownCharisma check. Whenever the object of your smearcampaign arrives, people’s attitudes toward him arewhatever you influenced them toward. The audiencedoes not need to personally know the person;reputation and name are enough.     See Fading Suns d20, p. 105 for more informationon setting the smear campaign DC.     Note: Add +5 to the DC if the people in the crowdknow the victim of your smear campaign personally.     Special: You can attempt this on a larger scale bygaining this feat multiple times. Each successie featincreases the area in which you can cast your net.     1st feat = Small town (checks take one evening)     2nd feat = Large town or province (checks takeone week)     3rd feat = Entire country (checks take one month)     4th feat = Entire World (checks take threemonths)Sorcerous Bloodline[Created by Kaptain Kantrip]You were born with the power to work magic.     Prerequisite: Charisma 10+     Benefit: You know and can cast per day a numberof arcane cantrips equal to 2 + your Charismamodifier. You are considered to be a 1st-levelsorcerer for purposes of determining your caster level.Theologian[Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You are recognized by your church as a worthytheologian, and your views influence church policy.     Prerequisite: Church Ordination, Knowledge(religion) skill 10+.     Benefit: You can introduce new interpretationsinto Church discourse, influencing the opinions ofthose who make policy. In such a way, you canattempt to transform heresies into mere differences ofdoctrine, and hence save their believers frominquisitorial persecution.     First, you must formulate your doctrine. Make aKnowledge (religion) check. The DC is 20 or 25 forbeliefs that fit well with current Church opinion, but30 or 35 for beliefs wildly divergent from currentthought. Beliefs that clash with core church valuesmay face DC 40+.     Once formulated, your doctrine must bepromulgated through oratory. Make a Diplomacycheck, opposed by those listening. Those who failagainst you are converted to your doctrine and maybegin to spread it (using their own Diplomacy skills).     You may eventually be invited to argue yourdoctrine before distinguished (high skill ranked)theologians, who will attempt to reveal the flaws inyour beliefs. This initiates a new Knowledge(religion) contest, but you can add +1 to your checkfor every 100 people you have converted. If yourviews hold out, your work will enter the canon ofcurrently debated theology.     You may then be invited to argue your doctrinebefore the College of Ethicalds, who determinechurch doctrine. If you win here, your belief becomesa standard teaching of the church--unless the supremehead of the church dislikes it. He may challenge youto a new debate, one in which he gains a +6 bonus forhis status. If you win this one, your doctrine is set forat least the next two or three generations.Twin[Adapted from Forgotten Realms]You have a twin brother or sister.     Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on allCharisma-based checks. You have a twin brother orsister (fraternal or identical). You may detect thedirection of your twin if he or she is alive, on thesame plane and you succeed in an Intuit Directioncheck against DC 15 (or a Wisdom check if you donot have that skill). A failure on this check gives noinformation. You may retry once per round as astandard action.     Special: You may only take this feat as a 1st-levelcharacter.Veteran[Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You are known for your prowress at a significantbattle, and may even bear a medal proving it.     Benefit: You may invoke your past to changeothers’ opinions about you and solicit their aid. Thismay be used against the same person only once. Itallows you to gain a +2 bonus to Diplomacy or GatherInformation checks against that person. In addition,you are considered (for just this one-time request) tobe one rank higher than normal, including gainingany skill bonuses the higher rank imparts.     Special: This feat may be bought multiple times.The effects stack, representing a greater deedperformed in battle or a more important medal. Twolevels of this feat provides a +4 bonus to Diplomacyor Gather Information checks, and so on with eachadditional level.Withering Insult[Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You may deliver an insult practically guaranteed toget a rise out of your rival.     Prerequisite: Int 13+.     Benefit: Social rank and the respect it providesare vital to survival in the chaotic world. People arerather protective of their reputations and don’t takekindly to people disparaging them. However, mostpeople can readily choose which insults to challengeor ignore. Nonetheless, some villains are particularlygood at baiting their rivals; their foul words rarely failto provoke a heated response.     Once per day, you may deliver a withering insultto someone. That person must fight to control histemper or lose all self-control, discarding all norms ofsocial propriety and common sense until he hasextracted an apology from you.     The insulted person must make a Will save. TheDC is equal to your Charisma modifier + your level.     Success means he can choose to deal with yourinsult however he likes, although he cannot pretend itwasn’t vile. Failure means he loses control andimmediately seeks satisfaction from you: either bychallenging you to a duel, attacking you then andthere, whistling for his gang of street toughs todescend on you, etc.     He will stop whatever he is doing, as long asdoing so doesn’t put him in obvious danger. In otherwords, he won’t turn his attention from a rampagingmonster just to deal with an insult. However, theinsult still hurts, and he will deal with it as soon asthe danger has passed.Xeno-Empathy[Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You have studied a race and know how to interactwith and read that race.     Benefit: This feat negates the -2 penalty for Bluff,Diplomacy, Gather Information and Sense Motivechecks against the type of race selected when this featis taken.     Special: This feat may be taken multiple times.The effects do not stack; another race must beselected each time this feat is taken.</blockquote>

Verification