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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4316445" data-attributes="member: 40961">Well, it depends how you want to go about doing things.First of all, most of that is roleplaying.&nbsp; You can give him a high charisma, but to make the players feel like he's &quot;dark&quot; and &quot;drips with charisma,&quot; you're going to have to act it out, and describe him doing things that can only be done by a person who is dark and dripping with charisma.Likewise, controlling others by manipulation and magic- do you mean as in a combat technique?&nbsp; Or long term.&nbsp; Because long term you're back to roleplaying again.And escaping from any situation?&nbsp; Well, there are some mechanical ways to make a character escape more easily, but a lot of it is going to involve roleplaying.&nbsp; Mechanically, consider teleportation, or shapechanging (doppleganger, maybe?).I can come up with a few gimmicks, but in the end its going to be up to your creativity in writing plotlines.Here's one: He constantly out maneuvers his foes, and seems like he's in multiple places at once.&nbsp; Its because he is.&nbsp; There are actually three of him, which never meet, but communicate telepathically as if they have only one mind.&nbsp; This leads to many rumors about his true location, intentions, and actions, but no one guesses that all the rumors are true at once- and they all work towards the same dark goal.They don't have separate names by which they refer to themselves, because they have no concept of self apart from the whole.&nbsp; Killing one of them causes pain to the whole, but no permanent damage, because a raise dead ritual performed upon a piece of the flesh of one of the surviving individuals results in a resurrection of the dead one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4316445, member: 40961"] Well, it depends how you want to go about doing things. First of all, most of that is roleplaying. You can give him a high charisma, but to make the players feel like he's "dark" and "drips with charisma," you're going to have to act it out, and describe him doing things that can only be done by a person who is dark and dripping with charisma. Likewise, controlling others by manipulation and magic- do you mean as in a combat technique? Or long term. Because long term you're back to roleplaying again. And escaping from any situation? Well, there are some mechanical ways to make a character escape more easily, but a lot of it is going to involve roleplaying. Mechanically, consider teleportation, or shapechanging (doppleganger, maybe?). I can come up with a few gimmicks, but in the end its going to be up to your creativity in writing plotlines. Here's one: He constantly out maneuvers his foes, and seems like he's in multiple places at once. Its because he is. There are actually three of him, which never meet, but communicate telepathically as if they have only one mind. This leads to many rumors about his true location, intentions, and actions, but no one guesses that all the rumors are true at once- and they all work towards the same dark goal. They don't have separate names by which they refer to themselves, because they have no concept of self apart from the whole. Killing one of them causes pain to the whole, but no permanent damage, because a raise dead ritual performed upon a piece of the flesh of one of the surviving individuals results in a resurrection of the dead one. [/QUOTE]

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