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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8678895" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>[USER=5889]@Stalker0[/USER] Players have skills too. I've had players do that kind of thing using arcana & "artificer's tools" but investigators tools or similar would probably work too. Just because a player <em>can</em> do it doesn't mean that doing it is suitable for the time constraints of the game. Take for example the Knox box & fire services elevator keys, those are almost always using a key that it documented in a way the public can simply look up for their area but you can't buy the blank or have it cut like that& can get in trouble for having one because it's literally a code enforced key that gives the actual key to every commercial building & secured elevator in the region. Even if the player gets the trace aura results tomorrow or next week it's not like they can just pop over to the local police arcane operations center & thumb through the aura imprints made on all of the guest passes & citizen records or whatever</p><p></p><p></p><p>The novels go into a lot more than the anime but this 100%. The way that nobles interact with lower rungs of society through proxies & other stuff like interacting with each other solves a lot of problems for a GM while really making it easy to set different groups apart.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8678895, member: 93670"] [USER=5889]@Stalker0[/USER] Players have skills too. I've had players do that kind of thing using arcana & "artificer's tools" but investigators tools or similar would probably work too. Just because a player [I]can[/I] do it doesn't mean that doing it is suitable for the time constraints of the game. Take for example the Knox box & fire services elevator keys, those are almost always using a key that it documented in a way the public can simply look up for their area but you can't buy the blank or have it cut like that& can get in trouble for having one because it's literally a code enforced key that gives the actual key to every commercial building & secured elevator in the region. Even if the player gets the trace aura results tomorrow or next week it's not like they can just pop over to the local police arcane operations center & thumb through the aura imprints made on all of the guest passes & citizen records or whatever The novels go into a lot more than the anime but this 100%. The way that nobles interact with lower rungs of society through proxies & other stuff like interacting with each other solves a lot of problems for a GM while really making it easy to set different groups apart. [/QUOTE]
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