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From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@****.CAIS.COM>
Subject: Re: Social Pool
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 00:42:18 -0500
On Fri, 18 Nov 1994, Sean Holland wrote:

> Re: Social Pool (INT+CHR/2) for all social skill but not magic in
> any form.
> I have thought about this from time to time, mostly to make CHR a
> more useful stat for non-mages. My question is how often are you going
> to allow it to refresh? Once per scene, one per adventure, one per day?
> That has been my primary stumbling block on this problem...

That's an interesting thought. In RL, once your "charisma" has
won people over, they tend to _stay_ won over until you make some major
mistake -- but it'd be _real_ confusing to try to create some rules that
reflect this. So, what do we do?

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