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<blockquote data-quote="Keldryn" data-source="post: 3699279" data-attributes="member: 11999">I did use it back in the day, and for a short while into 2nd Edition, but I don't think that it has a place as an &quot;Ability Score&quot; alongside the other six.&nbsp; Charisma is already generally viewed as the &quot;weakest&quot; for the six scores, and adding a 7th would just make for two weak scores.&nbsp; Comeliness would not have enough of an effect on the game, mechanics-wise, to justify its existence.I prefer to leave it up to players to decide how their characters look, and Charisma does play a role in physical attractiveness.&nbsp; Many women have told me that confidence and how a man carries himself is usually far more of a factor in attraction than how &quot;pretty&quot; his face is.&nbsp; And we've already got Strength and Constitution as highly-correlated to physical attractiveness.If a DM really wants to have some sort of system mechanic for handling physical beauty, I say go the GURPS route (beauty as an Advantage) and just create a Beautiful feat that perhaps gives you a +4 on Bluff and Diplomacy checks with members of the opposite sex.&nbsp; Or some such thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Keldryn, post: 3699279, member: 11999"] I did use it back in the day, and for a short while into 2nd Edition, but I don't think that it has a place as an "Ability Score" alongside the other six. Charisma is already generally viewed as the "weakest" for the six scores, and adding a 7th would just make for two weak scores. Comeliness would not have enough of an effect on the game, mechanics-wise, to justify its existence. I prefer to leave it up to players to decide how their characters look, and Charisma does play a role in physical attractiveness. Many women have told me that confidence and how a man carries himself is usually far more of a factor in attraction than how "pretty" his face is. And we've already got Strength and Constitution as highly-correlated to physical attractiveness. If a DM really wants to have some sort of system mechanic for handling physical beauty, I say go the GURPS route (beauty as an Advantage) and just create a Beautiful feat that perhaps gives you a +4 on Bluff and Diplomacy checks with members of the opposite sex. Or some such thing. [/QUOTE]

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