Social Maneuvering
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People often won’t do what you want just because you ask them to. You need to persuade them, make your offer or request as enticing as possible. You don’t have to use positive enticements — “Your wife won’t find out about your affair,” is often more effective than “Here’s fifty bucks for your trouble.”
You just need to find out what the other person wants. Under a strict reading of these rules, one character could use Social maneuvering to get another to do whatever she wants. That’s not quite fair, since it’s the persuader’s player making the rolls. His victim doesn’t get any option to say “no.” As such, this system should only be used by player-controlled characters on Storyteller characters.
Leave the manipulation of other player’s characters to roleplaying, and let the players determine their characters’ responses. Suggestions for using Social maneuvering on other player-controlled characters can be found in the The World of Darkness Rulebook or The God-Machine Chronicle.
