Persuasion

This skill is important for all Blessed Ones, especially for priests with a strong drive to evangelize. It allows you to influence people and helps convince them of your opinion or viewpoint. In conversation, a Blessed One can appear totally devoted to a person and at the same time raise serious questions about faith and sow doubts.

This skill is useful not only to Blessed Ones, however, for politicians, philosophers, and other orators use rhetoric as a device to convince others to accept their ideas. The same goes for demagogues and freedom fighters, who try to incite the common people to rise up against their rulers. Unlike Fast-Talk and Intimidation, Persuasion can change the target’s mind permanently, not just for a short time.

Check: COU/SGC/CHA
Applications: Conversation, Debate, Oration, Provocation
Encumbrance: No
Quality: you persuade more people, or the target adheres to the new belief for a longer time.
Failed Check: The target doesn’t believe the orator.
Critical Success: The target is completely convinced.
Botch: The target feels insulted.
Improvement Cost: B

• Convince villagers to donate money in times of plenty +5
• Convince a goblin of the similarities between his god and Firun +3
• Convince a farmer to make additional offerings, and to less-respected gods +1
• Prove your rhetorical skill in a political discussion +/-0
• Compose an effective diatribe -1
• Incite a group of farmers to rise up against the local baron -3
• Convert a dwarf to the Church of Efferd -5