Lore Leaders

[Kinaed]

Greetings,

Any view as to what the replacement for Lore Leaders ought to look like or include? In particular, we want different levels to align with different skill. I'd prefer to make learning who is spending influence in the city to be more than a flat skill value and more like an investigation, for example.... any further thoughts on what you'd like it to look like?

Please remember, it's supposed to ICly reflect how urbane your character is, how well connected with NPCs, and an ear for secrets. That is, it's an IC skill.

Warm regards,
Kinky

[Tremere]

I would still like the functionality of who is the most well connected people. Maybe not the most -current- influence, but maybe the most weekly gained influence people would be good? I think that is reasonable to learn if you are well connected. I think perhaps the ability to spend IP to find out general current IP levels of specific people can be good? So if you have a name like say I wanted to investigate tomas and his level of IP I could investigate and find out if he has no ip, a little ip, a moderate amount, a good sized amount, a large amount, a huge amount or a staggering amount of IP.

I would also love to see some ability through either lore leaders/ip/qp of investigating subversion in some IC way. I don't know how that could be done, but I think it plays into the same thing. You could use lore leaders to maybe start trying to untangle the web of support in some ways.

[BattleJenkins]

Your amount of skill in 'City Lore' could give you a weekly pool of 'points' to draw from that you could expend as needed to find out information, perhaps? Then again, the last thing we need is to pile MORE subsystems on top of the game...

I've actually been thinking lately that it'd be nice to get extra IP from having ranks in the City Lore skill - maybe 1 extra IP per week per 15 ranks or so? And then, maybe IP could be given more uses - spent to find out things like the information that was in 'lore leaders', or to find out who's supporting or subverting who and why.

EDIT: Also, I think the name of the skill should be changed to reflect its expanded usage - but that'll depend on what usage that'll be!