From:	Shadowdancer <BRIDDLE@*****.VINU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: ReSubmission: Social Pools
Date:	Sun, 20 Nov 1994 23:40:37 EST

SHADOWLORE
SOCIAL POOLS
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The Social Pool is a pool used to augment any social skill roll. It is a
representation of a character's ability to intuitivly know when a "Faux
Pas" is about to be commited, and allows the character to use some
of his/her force of personality. Any skill that falls under the "Social"
subheading may be augmented, as well as any Charisma skill web
rolls. It is equal to Int+Cha/2 and all characters may use it. NOTE:
The Social Pool cannot be used by magicians to augment Charisma
for conjuring purposes.

The Social Pool refreshes on a case by case basis. The GM should
use his/her own discretion when deciding when it refreshes. Some
examples would be if a character is negotiating his/her way out of
being killed, then the pool would refresh after final negotiations are
concluded. If the character is negotiating with his/her fixer, the pool
would refresh after every round of negotiations.

If at any time, Social Pool successes exceed base skill successes,
the person the character is using the skill on will become enrapt with
the character. If the character ever uses social skills on that
particular person again, the character gets to roll three times, taking
the best result of the three. If at any time, the character rolls all ones
on the social pool dice, he/she has made a major blunder. Even if the
skill succeeds, the person will regard the character as an uncouth.
Any subsequent rolls suffer a +2 to the TN and -1 die. Blunders
cancel out enraptments, but it takes _five_ enraptments to cancel out
a blunder. This reflects the fact that it is harder to correct a first (or
really bad) impression.