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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The oWoD does as well, technically.

It usually crops up as a secondary skill (which means it's only in the Players' Guides, not the core rulebooks), but it definitely shows up as a useful skill in both Vampire and Mage. In Technocracy-focused games, it's almost mandatory.

OMG, welp next time I'm forced to play oWoD I'm going to try and convince the GM to let me be a boring bureaucrat who's a vampire.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Bureaucracy isn't a primary skill in 5e D&D because most players will never use it. They're usually the sort of people who solve bureaucratic problems by punching their way through, not going with the overly elaborate and usually redundantly unnecessary flow.

I may just have a love for weird things, and having a character who's really f***ing into something useless and hamfisting it in every situation is honestly pretty fun.
Bureaucracy and Geology characters for me all day every day.