You have the ability to deal with people of all types and creeds. Even when handling touchy subjects, you are able to get results without ruffling too many feathers. You are a skilled at delicate negotiations and mediating disputes, getting along with others without overt manipulation and without letting your own aims fall to the wayside. You are skilled at bargaining and can reduce another’s price or get some other concession, under most circumstances. This ability involves knowledge of the formal rules of give-and-take, as well as the official cultural rules of conduct and politeness.

In the End of Eternity game the Diplomacy Ability is also used in the brokerage of Prestation. Those kindred who are apt in Diplomacy may make an Opposed Social Challenge versus another vampire to lower the burden of debt or to convince the subject that the matter before them is of a greater importance and thus involves a higher rate of return. Basically, any Kindred with this Ability owing a Boon may test to lower it by one level; for example, a Minor Boon can be lowered to a Trivial Boon.  On the other hand, they may convince the other party that a Minor issue incurs a Major level of return. This Ability can also be used in negotiations concerning the use of the Allies or Mentor backgrounds. Finally, characters with the Diplomacy Ability are able to diffuse conflict amongst the kindred’s clan and coterie lines by swaying the slighted parties back to the negotiation table without breaching status or protocol on a successful Social Mob challenge.

Diplomacy Ability
Possessed by: Ambassadors, Attaches, Councilors, Diplomats, Personnel Officers, Politicians, School Teachers, Traders, Tycoons, Union Negotiators
Specializations: Haggling, Market Trader, Mediation, Negotiation, Inter-clan Relations, International Relations, Industry, Personal Relationships

***** Master – You can defuse almost any situation, from an industrial dispute to a religious war.
**** Expert – You could be a professional union negotiator or ombudsman
*** Competent - You could shine in management or personnnel.
** Practiced – Allies ask you to deal with things for them.
* Novice – You can iron out schoolyard disputes.
 
 

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