See, but I've also watched characters who are very skilled on their own, but don't have the ability to substantially organize their side to do great things. In fact I think this is far more common... I see it a lot with goodies. The one guy that sucks it up against bad odds and keeps trying to retrieve, but dies because he's up against a horde and the rest of his cabal mates are either ghosts (because they went in seperately too), or off somewhere else doing their own thing.

I can say with confidence that there are characters whos pk ratios may not even be that great (although they're usually not bad either), but when given some moderately-skilled allies to work with, they're much stronger then the sum of the groups parts would indicate.

I can't say WHY these characters have the ability to get people to listen to them, then do the right thing, but I'm pretty sure it works.

Aarn