Conversationalist

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Conversationalist is a social skill used by dwarves while making friends. Dwarves that are particularly good at this tend to make friends easily and will often rise to mayoral positions.

To train this skill, let dwarves idle and chatter amongst themselves. Dwarves who prefer to be alone can never learn this skill and bashful dwarves can only gain experience in this skill while under the influence of alcohol. Dwarves who are put off by friendship and dwarves who are offended by leisure time can gain experience in this skill.

This skill is, in fortress mode - in contrast to all other social skills - a measure of how many social interactions the dwarf had so far in the fort (although in case of migrants, the starting experience in this skill needs to be subtracted), since this skill is only gained via socializing, but not via anything else, and any social interaction gives exactly 1 experience.

A high skill level might increase the chance of a social interaction happening between two dwarves.

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