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With our RPG Month still going strong, we have another surprise for you in the form of an RPG Contest! This time we want you to think about a video game skill you would like to have in real life and explain why.

The best answers will win 1 of 15 game bundles, including 9 titles such as Windbound, Tyranny, Disco Elysium and more!

You have time to enter the contest until September 30th, 3 PM UTC.
Does reloading a previous save count as a skill ? Because it would be incredibly handy.

Although the game characters don't realize that the save has been realoaded and that they are making different choices. Therefore I perhaps already have that skill and I can't know it. If that's the case I'd like to have a word with my player.
I would like to have the power of the girl of Iron Danger game, to stop and rewind time, so I this way would screw things in an infinite ways, an infinite times.
I want to restore health with pizza... ^^ COWABUNGA!
Force Persuade [KOTOR]: *This is the best answer you are looking for*. ^_^
Post edited September 21, 2021 by lumengloriosum
I want all the skills. And therefore I would choose a "copy skill" skill. It allows its user to learn the skill of any opponent, or sometimes simply a skill that is used around. Such characters as Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat (though he essentially turns himself into an opponent's copy), Emerl from Sonic Battle and Blue Mages from some of Final Fantasy games (their skill is just called Learn) have that skill.
Witcher senses from the Witcher 3. Think about it. Those socks of yours you keep losing? Those nerf bullets that dissapear into another dimension? Those pens you drop that invisible gremlins steal from you? You could find all of them!

Plus you get awesome cat eyes!
The power would be healing. My poor hands and arms can get so many scratches from my cat!!
Limitless inventory carrying capacity. I don't really think think this one requires any explanation.
Post edited September 21, 2021 by Longcat
I'd like to have the power to make myself irresistible to attractive women by solving fast-paced puzzles (as demonstrated in HuniePop) because who wouldn't want that?
Thieving.

I'd break into GOG offices, I'd steal all the game bundles and I'd donate them to the Community Giveaway. 15 x 9 games = 135 happy GOGers!

Just like a modern Robin Hood! ;)
Flying! To get high safely effectively and efficiently. The wings are stylish yet any mini mechanism can be durable still levitating and will power flying is best. To see over the houses, to reach highest mountains and finally to rip the space and see other side of the sheet. I want to fly like an Eagle ⛰️
A turn-based life.
Having as much time as you want to consider every decision or dialogue answer would be really useful in real life. Although waiting for everyone else to finish their turns could be quite tedious...
One video game skill that I consider worth having in real life is the 'Bottomless Stomach' skill from Yakuza Zero.

While initially the gameplay mechanics prohibits the player from eating excessively at the restaurants by limiting the amount of food they can order based on their current health, unlocking this skill allows Kiryu and Majima to eat as much as they want. Ordering everything a restaurant has on offer and watching the player characters gorge on an array of scrumptious delicacies is a remarkable in game achievement in terms of both immersion and lack of it (however, as the narrative and gameplay in the Yakuza games hinge on overdramatization and suspension of disbelief, this almost unreal act of overeating adds to the surreal charm of the game).

I believe this would be an interesting skill to possess in real life. Imagine going to a party, or a restaurant or more importantly to any all-you-can-eat buffet and being able to eat anything you want unhindered by one's biological limitations. This would be an amazing boon for any gourmet.
I choose Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines.

*Auspex*!

There is simply no competition. You perceive all living beings over a certain distance, see their auras, can guess their intentions and in advanced p&p game lore? You can do much, much more! The boost to firearms is also nice. In real life, having such a skill would be really invaluable. And thankfully, it is cheap (costs like, 1 blood?).

No crazy powers or fancy stuff. No need to break things, if you can see straight through them. No need to be all powerful yourself, if you detect the weaknesses in others. No threat or Masquerade breach, either. Fully maxed.
In some MMOs, you can do pointless things like chopping wood. I could use those skills to prepare the perfect spuds, which would level up my Lancashire hot pot.