User blog:Rasael/Comeliness and Disguises

These are TESTING additions to the Context Menu, allowing a character to inspect a creature and determine its comeliness, as well as to disguise or undisguise itself. (nothing is definitively approved here)

You can disguise in three different ways, but they may be used at the same time. -You can change your name (but it will be in brackets behind your new name), -you can change race and -you can change gender. Each added layer of disguise decreases the DC by a set amount.

The disguise can be discovered when a player appraises a disguised creature or PC. He then rolls a hidden spot check versus the effective disguise DC (check is revealed if he penetrates the disguises). This DC is lowered if the character is pretending to be an elf but has no face hiding helmet on. It is also lowered if the character is not wearing medium to heavy armor. Items can be introduced later on to complement this or boost the DC of the disguise. -Like thieves tools, except for disguises

Currently the initial DC is determined by a d20 roll + bluff / 2. If we can add a new skill: Disguise, then we can make that d20 + disguise skill. (with bluff remaning, for those who don't have the new skill) -We can also add spells to interact with this system, like detect disguise or disguise. Non detection would also fit very well.

When disguising players will have to change their biography themselves, but the in game tools for that should make that easy work since you can save templates.

http://imageshack.us/f/818/disguising.jpg/ (Here's the disguising system)http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/818/disguising.jpg

Comeliness is a variant ruleset in D&D, the aim is to give players a lot of freedom rather than mechanical penalties. Its also meant to keep characters congruent with their charactersheet. You can play a low charisma pretty fellow, or a high charisma ugly fellow - but not the best of both worlds unless you have the charisma for it.

http://imageshack.us/f/29/apraisecreature.jpg/ (see the details it reports in the text) http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/29/apraisecreature.jpg