2.11 Acting skill
Governing characteristics:
PE, WP, IQ
Represents: The skill of convincingly pretending to be someone else, to
feel different emotions and/or to believe something that is untrue (i.e.
lying). Use of the skill includes disguising, mimicry and other pretenses.
Broad specialisms:
- Physical disguise (e.g. applied through the use of costumes and
make-up);
- Feigning emotions;
- Acting like a typical person of a certain type (i.e. pretending to be
a different kind of person, for example, a peasant, a guard, etc.);
- Lying convincingly (i.e. maintaining a convincing pretense when
directly challenged);
- Mimicry (i.e. making your voice sound like that of another person);
- Fast talk (i.e. bluffing your way out of a difficult situation by
talking sufficiently quickly and convincingly that the person you are
talking to is confused and gives you the benefit of the doubt).
Narrow specialisms:
- One specific physical disguise;
- Feigning one particular emotion;
- Acting like one particular type of person (e.g. peasant);
- Mimicing one particular sound;
- Pretending to be one particular person;
- Spotting impostors;
- Judging another's Acting skill score.
Use with the following characteristics in
dice rolls covering: