Convincing Speech
Step: Rank + Charisma Step
Action: Sustained
Requires Karma: No Strain: None
The Convincing Speech talent uses a character's powerful voice to arouse an audience to a basic emotion such as fear, love, hate, happiness, anger, or joy. The audience directs the basic emotion at the subject of the speech: If the character talks about a king, the audience feels the emotion about the king.
The character makes a Convincing Speech Test against the highest Social Defense in the audience. The success level determines how many members of the audience the character affects. An Average success indicates that one-quarter ofthe audience is affected by the speech. A Good success affects half the audience, an Excellent success affects three-quarters, and an Extraordinary success means that the entire audience is affected by the speech.
The effects of the speech last a number of days equal to the character's rank in Convincing Speech. During that time, affected characters are more susceptible to suggestions related to the emotion of the speech. Characters making such suggestions add 2 steps to any Interaction Tests (see ED2, pg. 332). Characters making suggestions counter to the Convincing Speech suffer -2 steps to Interaction Tests.
If a character fails a Convincing Speech Test, the crowd is not swayed by the speaker's words and the character may not use Convincing Speech against members of that crowd for seven days. Consecutive uses of the Convincing Speech Talent do not have a cumulative effect.

Hier schon mal die englische Version, Übersetzung kommt bald. Ralf