Storytelling

Telling stories.

Ability Score(s): Rhetoric

Usage: This skill is used when telling stories, and determines the reception of the crowd as well as the quality of the story. Different cultures prefer different themes in their stories.

• Elves prefer stories of redemption and hope.

  • • Elven stories often start slow, focusing on characterization and short story arcs to establish characters. They are also very dialogue heavy.

• Orcs prefer stories of lone knights astray from their lords such as Ronin.

• • Orcish stories have a blend of characterization and action focuses, embellishing heavily in heroics and extravagant displays of acrobatics and skill.

• Dwarves prefer stories of defending one's home from a foreign threat.

• • Dwarven stories take their first act to establish the villain and why they are the villain, then moving to the heroes for the subsequent acts to show them surmount great odds.