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==When and How to Use Social Combat==
You should NOT use Social Combat for every single non-Combat conflict characters get into, or even a large proportion of them.  Most non-Combat conflicts can be resolved through either role-playing without any rolls at all, or a simple unopposed or opposed skill test.  Social Combat should only be used for those critical or climactic scenes (the Big Trial, the Presentation before the King, etc.) that warrant a detailed way to resolve them, as well as a lot of actual game play time spent on them.

Social Combat can be used when two characters are opposed and want some from each other, but it can also be used when two characters are opposed and want something from SOMEONE ELSE (a single person or a group of people).  This person is called the Audience.  There are only slight differences in the procedure, see below.