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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 137333" data-attributes="member: 546">Smear Campaign [Social][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)Smooth Talk [Social][Adapted from Forgotten Realms]You are accustomed to dealing with others withoutthe need to draw blades.Sorcerous Bloodline [Social][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.Steely Gaze [Social][Adapted from Pulp Heroes d20]Just looking into your eyes can be a frighteningexperience... determination and danger lurk there.     Normal: Attempts to Intimidate are generallyfull-round actions.Street Smart [Social][Adapted from Forgotten Realms]You have learned how to keep informed, askquestions, and interact with the underworld withoutraising suspicion.Streetwise [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You know your way around the black market andorganized crime.     Benefit: You are familiar with the underworldand criminal activities. You know how to contact thecriminal underworld or acquire illegal goods orservices, including black market items.     You can attempt to hire an illegal or shady service(leg-breaking, breaking and entering, murder, etc.).Make a Gather Information check to find the rightman for the job (usually DC 20), and then a Bluff orDiplomacy check to successfully hire him at the goingrate (DC 25). If he is caught in the act, he will fingeryou as his boss, unless your check result was at leastfive points higher than the required DC.  Theologian [Social][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.Trustworthy [Social][Adapted from Song & Silence]You have a naturally occuring or carefully constructeddemeanor of friendship that inspires feelings of trustin others, even when they know they shouldn’t.Twin [Social][Adapted from Forgotten Realms]You have a twin brother or sister.     Benefit: As Thunder Twin feat, but not restricted to dwarves.     Special: You may only take this feat as a 1st-levelcharacter.Trendsetter [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You are the epitome of fashion. Whatever you wearquickly becomes fashionable everywhere, and yourinterests soon become “the next big thing.”     Benefit: Others seek you out for fashion advice ortips on what one should be reading or thinking thisseason. Even if you don’t go out of your way toimpart this wisdom, others will copy you. Being seenat a particular show is enough to ensure it’s a hit.Your presence at a party is enough to make it notablein the society pages. Your public approval of apaintingg is enough to launch an artist’s career.     You can almost always get into any party orhigh-class affair to which you have not been invited.You can take a number of people with you equal toyour Charisma modifier (if positive). In public placeswhere you have specifically been barred fromentering, you can still get in by making a Charismacheck (DC varies with how hostile the host is towardyou).     In addition, it is rare for an NPC you have nevermet to have a hostile attitude toward you.Tyrant [Social][Adapted from AEG’s EVIL]You can gather and control a huge horde of evilhumanoids and other monsters.     Prerequisite: Character level 6+, evil alignment.     Benefit: See EVIL, p. 60.Veteran [Social][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.Well-Traveled [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You have been there and done that. You know a lot ofthings about the places and people you’ve seen,although you can’t necessarily remember them whenyou want to.     Prerequisite: Any character class level 3+     Benefit: Acts as the Bardic Knowledge ability.You may make a Knowledge check modified by yourlevel + your Int modifier to see whether you knowrelevant information about a person, place or thing.The DC varies with the obscurity of the topic.Withering Insult [Social][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 [Social][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>

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