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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wuyanei" data-source="post: 2260659" data-attributes="member: 28913">Very interesting concept, but the legalese needs some work. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I suggest you phrase the cloak as:'As long as the owner is wearing this cloak, his face will become deformed and grotesque, imposing a -3 penalty to his charisma score.'and'Upon a successful strike, the target of the strike suffers a 1-point charisma penalty for two hours, while the wearer gains a +1 bonus to his charisma for the same duration.'However, IMHO, a meager -1 ability penalty is not worth wasting a standard-action on. I suggest that the '-3 penalty to his charisma score' be changed to: '-3 penalty to all Charisma checks and Charisma-based skill checks'and the effect of the Ugly Strike be changed to:'Upon a successful strike, the target of the strike suffers a 2-point charisma penalty for two hours, while the wearer gains a +1 bonus to to all Charisma checks and Charisma-based skill checks for the same duration. The penality to ability scores caused by a Cloak of Ugliness stacks with itself, but not with any other penalty to ability scores. The penalty due to a Cloak of Ugliness cannot reduce any ability score below 1.'The first change is so that sorcerers, bards and spell-like ability users can still cast spells effectively, even while all social skills suffer what amounts to a -6 penalty to Charisma. Sorcerers have their spells based on their inner personality, not on their looks, so being hideously ugly should not weaken their spells anyways. (Bards still suffer when using their Bard song, ie. Performance skill.)The second is simply to give the cloak a minimum of bite. It's still nothing compaired to RoE, though. And by the time you reach 16 char lvl, save or die spells are flying like hail anyways.</blockquote>

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