Social Attributes
DESCRIPTION
Kindred are manipulative creatures, using humans (and one another) as building blocks in their attempts to advance personal schemes. Social attributes describe a character’s appearance, charm, and ability to interact with others. If your character has few Social attributes, she is awkward, shy, or just plain-looking. A character with a high rating in her Social attribute is attractive, compelling, and smooth, more capable of convincing others to do as she desires.
EXAMPLE
Rose the Toreador needs to find a way to get past the bouncers at the most popular nightclub in town: a socially oriented challenge. Depending upon her attribute level, her Social focus, and her ranks in an appropriate skill, Rose can attempt this in a variety of ways. She might flirt with the bouncers, relying on her Appearance focus and the Performance skill. If she has focused in Charisma, she might charm the bouncers with her ready Wit, using her Empathy to figure out what they want to hear. If Rose has focused in Manipulation, she might try to convince the bouncers that she’s part of the band playing that night, using her Subterfuge to make the lies as believable as possible.