Connoisseur

"... I'm the first one they call when they discover a new piece of art--and I'm the one they're scared to call, because I'm the best in the world at discovering a fake.." -- Jacob Stone, The LibrariansSeason 2, Episode 3Connoisseur (IQ/Average) is the skill regarding an educated understanding of art and luxury items.Basic Set, p.185 Requires specialization. It can be used to predict what the critics will think, assess how much an item will fetch on the market,+1 to Merchant skill when trading it and to impress the culturally literate.+1 to Savoir-Faire or reaction rolls at the GM's option.
Defaults: IQ-5 and others -- Each specialty defaults to the skills used to study or create the art at -3.
== Examples ==
* Art
* Literature
* Music
* Visual Arts
* Weapons -- useful for telling weapon quality as it covers all weapons, compared to Armory covering a smaller category
* Luxuries -- Collected together in the DFRPG
** Wine, cloth, perfume, etc.
== Modifiers ==
* Lack of a Cultural Familiarity may give a penalty to Connoisseur
* Killjoy gives -3 
==Where referenced==
* GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 2: Dungeons™, p. 14, on evaluating loot
* GURPS Martial Arts, p. 56, on taking Weapons as a specialty
* GURPS Low-Tech Companion 1: Philosophers and Kings, p. 13, on the application of iconography to Connoisseur (Art).
* While Dungeon Fantasy RPG mentions Connoisseur, it seems superfluous, as Merchant assays prices and Forgery tells fakes. 
==Kromm Quotes==
Sean Punch has commented on Connoisseur in the following posts to the SJG GURPS Forums:
* On the breadth of possible specialties 
* On its usefulness to a black-market dealer 
* On spelling it 
==Classic==
* Appreciate Beauty was a VH Classic skill that became Connoisseur (Beauty) in 4e.
** There's a remnant of this accidentally mentioned on Iotha's "Elf" template in Basic Set (p.316); Connoisseur (Natural Environments), although this isn't on her character sheet proper.
==See Also==
* Cultural Familiarity
* Killjoy
* List of Skills
==References==
*GURPS Update, p.18, 21
Category:Skills