WarbossAohd: Having a high enough skill or stats can influence dialogue choices, giving you option you might otherwise not have.
Question, if i win can i gift this to someone?
Oh and remember, when your reading hints and walkthroughs, as you probably will end up doing, and it says you need an int of 8 to get the dialog choice and you only have an int of 6 remember that you can always munch a mentat chem to temporarily boost your Int by a couple (charisma and perception too IIRC)
You never get to perm boost your base stats though and the only equipment that does it is the power armour, as I said before so build your character wisely!
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Also, you can use the steal/pickpocket skill to plant stuff on people as well as rob them (as comes in handy exactly once AFAIK)
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