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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6077377" data-attributes="member: 7006">Very true... but indeed like I said, you have to specifically build the rogue in that way (and in many ways short-change the exploration aspects of your rogue) to do so.  Which is why I would think that *if* the Interaction pillar was to get a more robust mechanical side beyond just CHA checks... I think we might be better served having a class that was mainly Interaction with side branches for Exploration/Combat, just as the Rogue is mainly Exploration with side branches for Interaction/Combat.It's basically the same argument that is given as to whether Ranger should be their own class or not.  Some folks say that you shouldn't have it as a class, as you can have a Ranger just by taking the Fighter class and the correct Background and Specialty.  Whereas others then say that you've now removed the possibility of different types of Rangers, because rather than having choices for Backgrounds and Specialties to make the Rangers different... you lose that character choices in order to just get to the "base Ranger" off the Fighter chassis.  Same thing with the Courtier (or whatever you might call it).  You could certainly get there using the Rogue chassis and careful application of Scheme, Background and Specialty... but then all Courtiers are mainly all the same.  As opposed to having a Courtier class... which then allows differentiation by allowing players to take different Backgrounds and Specialties.At the end of the day it really doesn't matter though... cause I don't think a Courtier type of class will get made.  Mainly because I suspect that any sort of robust social interaction game system is very, very far down their line of stuff to create/work on.  And if you don't have that kind of system (and the Interaction pillar is meant to suffice with just CHA checks within the Skill system), then anyone with Backgrounds and a good CHA can participate in the pillar with little to no problem.</blockquote>

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