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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 5857134" data-attributes="member: 150">I'm finding Beauty as a Terror a little problematic.  The Charm stuff is all right, but it seems like hitting beauty with axes is a lousy way to deal with the terror that beauty represents.  Of course, hitting things with axes is what we do in D&D most of the time, but I think that if you really want to run with the big idea here, you could break out of that mold to some good effect. The trick is settling on which effect you want to have. What is really the terror represented by beauty?  I think, in the end, what's terrible about extreme beauty is the way it makes people around it feel inferior -- the way it bleeds away self esteem and will.  That's the terror of beauty as a weapon, IMO.  So how do you represent that in game terms?  Beauty feeds off the self esteem of others -- draining it away.  So, rather than thralls, she's surrounded by supplicants -- mortals who have lose their will to do anything faced with the way the feel about themselves after seeing how beautiful she is.  For the PCs, the danger of her beauty is complex. The PCs in her aura (which is big) are subject to some variable effects. So..... Some powers for Beauty.Come Hither Aura(Aura 10)-Any PC who can see Beauty and who starts his/her turn within the aura must make a save or spend his or her move action moving closer to beauty (follow charge rules -- each space must bring the character closer to Beauty)-Any PC who can see Beauty and who starts within the aura or enters it is weakened-Any PC who can see Beauty and who ends his/her turn within the aura and weakened becomes dazed (SE)-Any PC who can see Beauty and who ends his turn adjacent to beauty falls proneTriggered ActionsElusive Beauty (Free; at-will: when a PC moves into a space adjacent to Beauty)Beauty shifts 1.  Beauty's Protectors (Free; At will: when Beauty is targeted by a ranged or melee attack)Attack: +XX vs. WillHit: The attack instead targets another target of Beauty's choice. SpecialPCs may voluntarily avert their eyes -- effectively blinding themselves (-5 to hit with melee and ranged attacks).This will end up being REALLY FRICKING ANNOYING for the PCs.  She's going to be junebugging away from them every time they try to step closer, and if they shoot at her then end up shooting each other.  They can splash her with area attacks, hit her with reach weapons, or close their eyes and try to fight her blind. That's why this only lasts until she's bloodied.  Make sure her attacks are relatively weak at this stage -- the PCs will be hurting each other a bit, until they figure things out, and she'll slap them sill for a little while if you don't keep her ratcheted waaaay down. Use roughly 50% of the normal damage a monster her level would do. Then, finally, they bloody her....Once she's bloodied, she goes into a much more typical mode -- the aura goes away, her attacks are much more juiced up, and it's a big slugfest until the end.  Boost her damage now by the 50% you took away before she was bloodied. Hmmm..... might be a little over the top. Not sure.  What do you guys think? -rg</blockquote>

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