Author Topic: Make Intimidation alternatively scale off of Strength  (Read 1014 times)

Drizzle

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Make Intimidation alternatively scale off of Strength
« on: November 04, 2019, 05:13:05 pm »
Even if you fully spec Yell, you won't see any good results. As it stands, Psi builds don't have enough points for dodge/evasion (nor do they see much use for it since they have their own damage avoidance spells), and other builds don't have much reason to allocate precious ability points into the otherwise useless Will. However, many do go for Strength (either as a main or side stat), and I think this would give some much needed synergy to dodge/evasion. This would also let a lot of builds take a social stat other than the always useful Mercantile.

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Re: Make Intimidation alternatively scale off of Strength
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2019, 06:04:01 am »
You're right. Intimidation just doesn't have room on any normal build. Maybe add a feat to make intimidation a 1 feat + 1 full-skill requirement for effectiveness outside of Psi-characters? Maybe the feat could look like this:

"Menacing Presence"
Your intimidation skill is now valued off of your Highest Base Ability value instead of normally, which would then be your Will stat. You also gain a multiplicative +15% value to your effective Intimidation skill.