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Special
Ability: Credibility
The ability to be believed: by your viewers, by
the police, by important and powerful people
Career Skills:
Awareness/Notice, Composition, Education
(Journalism), Persuasion,
Human Perception, Social,
Streetwise, Photo & Film, Interview
Composition is the
ability to write a story.
Persuasion is the ability of
the Media to talk someone into telling their secrets or
to get them to believe your story.
Human Perception is the
ability to pick up non-verbal cues.
Social refers to the ability
to handle oneself with proper etiquette for various
situations.
Photo & Film is the
technical ability to operate cameras and video
equipment.
Interview is the skill of
eliciting anecdotal information from a subject.
For other skill descriptions please see Skills.
Optional Education
Pack: The Journalism Education Pack is available
for the career skills of your media. This pack is based on
the assumption that the character has attended a journalism
school, college, or university, majoring in Journalism. You
cannot take a higher education pack than your INT stat. The
number of career skill points and pickup skill points (yes,
you must spend both since you are assumed to have had little
time for extracurricular skill pickup) spent to acquire that
level is indicated following the degree. The level of each
skill is indicated following the skill.
Education Packs are an extremely generous way to pack
your character with skills, based on the assumption that
while in school you spent all your time learning and
therefore got, hello, an education. Remember that you
can't level higher than the stat associated with any skill
or higher in a career skill than your Special Ability
level.
Associate of Journalism (3, 12)
[Position limit: Staff Reporter] [Minimum
Age: 24 - INT]
Education / General Knowledge (3) -- You have an AA in
jouranlism with the following skills:
- Reading/Writing (7) -- You read War and Peace.
Twice.
- Math (5) -- You know Trigonometry.
- History (6) -- You have a basic understanding of
world history.
- Second Language (3) -- You can order in a
restaurant and the waiter won't snicker.
- Interview (1) -- You can get someone to give their
name.. maybe not their real one, but hey.
- Oratory (1) -- Work on those verbal pauses, will
you?
- Composition (1) -- You know a preposition isn't a
good thing to end a sentance with. And invest in a
spellchecker.
- Human Perception (1) -- You can spot a story when
someone grabs you by your elbow and says "Hey, you're
a media right? I got a story for you."
- Photography and Film (1) -- This is a camera.
Point the round part at the person and take the lens
cap off.
Bachelor of Journalism (4, 16) [Position
limit: Producer] [Minimum Age: 26 - INT]
Education / General Knowledge (4) -- You have an BA in
jouranlism with the following skills:
- Reading/Writing (7) -- You read War and Peace.
Twice.
- Math (5) -- You know Trigonometry.
- History (6) -- You have a basic understanding of
world history.
- Second Language (3) -- You can order in a
restaurant and the waiter won't snicker.
- Interview (4) -- You can get some fun anecdotes
for the Life & Style section.
- Oratory (4) -- You can do a field segment and look
good.
- Composition (4) -- You can write a decent and
interesting story.
- Human Perception (4) -- You can spot the edgy guy
glancing at you from two booths away.
- Photography and Film (4) -- You can work your own
cam and put together a good segment, but not quite
Pulitzer material.
Master of Journalism (5, 20) [Position
limit: None] [Minimum Age: 28 - INT]
Education / General Knowledge (5) -- You have an MA in
jouranlism with the following skills:
- Reading/Writing (7) -- You read War and Peace.
Twice.
- Math (5) -- You know Trigonometry.
- History (6) -- You have a basic understanding of
world history.
- Second Language (3) -- You can order in a
restaurant and the waiter won't snicker.
- Interview (7) -- People volunteer some good bits
when you're talking to them.. or at least think
they're volunteering them.
- Oratory (7) -- You even know how to pronounce
those wierd Scottish cities.
- Composition (7) -- You put out some gripping
drama.
- Human Perception (7) -- You can smell a story just
by following someone's sweat glands.
- Photography and Film (7) -- You can syndicate what
you record. And edit the truth if it needs to be
done.
Playing the Media in
FFRP:
Medias are always looking for the next big
scoop. If a player knows that you are a media, even if
their character is unaware of your role, they will be
more likely to tell you things and believe whatever you
tell them. However, remember that credibility is earned,
and if you lie too often you will lose that skill.
Earnings:
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Stringer
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Staff Reporter
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Section Editor
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Producer
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Personality
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Nat'l Personality
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1,000/month
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1,200/month
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3,000/month
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5,000/month
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7,000/month
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10,000/month
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