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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8927537" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>I guess the question here is, does it make a difference? I'm not trying to be flippant, this is obviously something you want to be in the game. But as it stands, appearance has no mechanical relevance whatsoever in the game. It's up to the DM to decide whether or not it applies, and in what circumstances.</p><p></p><p>So if you say "I'm beautiful and have high Charisma", whether the game allows you to state that or not, it doesn't really matter- you have high Charisma. You could even say "I'm beautiful <strong>because</strong> I have high Charisma", since "inner beauty" is a concept.</p><p></p><p>So the only thing the game doesn't let you say is "I have high Charisma because I'm beautiful"; ie, that you have average social skills that are balanced out by great beauty. This is important because you'd be saying, in such a case, that your ability to play a lyre or intimidate an orc would be the same as your ability to lie to others or convince them that you and your companions are humble travelers and certainly <strong>not </strong>the people who assassinated the Duke by virtue of your looks, since the game gives the same bonus to all these circumstances*.</p><p></p><p>*Certainly, the DM can adjust target numbers or grant advantage/disadvantage on circumstance, but we're simply going off of the actual bonus granted by the ability- no matter what the source, your Charisma attribute grants the same bonus to these activities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8927537, member: 6877472"] I guess the question here is, does it make a difference? I'm not trying to be flippant, this is obviously something you want to be in the game. But as it stands, appearance has no mechanical relevance whatsoever in the game. It's up to the DM to decide whether or not it applies, and in what circumstances. So if you say "I'm beautiful and have high Charisma", whether the game allows you to state that or not, it doesn't really matter- you have high Charisma. You could even say "I'm beautiful [B]because[/B] I have high Charisma", since "inner beauty" is a concept. So the only thing the game doesn't let you say is "I have high Charisma because I'm beautiful"; ie, that you have average social skills that are balanced out by great beauty. This is important because you'd be saying, in such a case, that your ability to play a lyre or intimidate an orc would be the same as your ability to lie to others or convince them that you and your companions are humble travelers and certainly [B]not [/B]the people who assassinated the Duke by virtue of your looks, since the game gives the same bonus to all these circumstances*. *Certainly, the DM can adjust target numbers or grant advantage/disadvantage on circumstance, but we're simply going off of the actual bonus granted by the ability- no matter what the source, your Charisma attribute grants the same bonus to these activities. [/QUOTE]
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