Particle_Man
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Is there a feat or other ability or magic item that allows one to "take 10" on charisma ability checks even when one is threatened or distracted?
Taking 10 on charisma checks when distracted
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You can't take 10 on an ability check, full stop: the "take 10" rule is for skill checks. If you mean "charisma-based skill checks", then as far as I'm aware, the answer is "no", or nearly so.
There are class features that allow you to take 10 on certain charisma-based skill checks, such as Feint Mastery (Invisible Blade 4: take 10 on Bluff checks to feint in combat), Deceive Item (Warlock 4: take 10 on Use Magic Device checks) and the Rogue's Skill Mastery (can take 10 when threatened or distracted on your choice of 3+Int-mod skills). There are also some slightly more obscure stunts you can pull such as dipping to Binder to get the vestige Naberius (take 10 on Diplomacy when threatened).
However, there's no feat, ability or item I know of that'll let you take 10 on Charisma-based checks across the board, and nothing at all that will do it for actual ability checks (because it's the wrong mechanic).
Which Charisma checks are you hoping to do this with? In general, particularly with Cha-based skills, you're better off going for a build that renders the d20 bit largely irrelevant than worrying about how to take 10
There are class features that allow you to take 10 on certain charisma-based skill checks, such as Feint Mastery (Invisible Blade 4: take 10 on Bluff checks to feint in combat), Deceive Item (Warlock 4: take 10 on Use Magic Device checks) and the Rogue's Skill Mastery (can take 10 when threatened or distracted on your choice of 3+Int-mod skills). There are also some slightly more obscure stunts you can pull such as dipping to Binder to get the vestige Naberius (take 10 on Diplomacy when threatened).
However, there's no feat, ability or item I know of that'll let you take 10 on Charisma-based checks across the board, and nothing at all that will do it for actual ability checks (because it's the wrong mechanic).
Which Charisma checks are you hoping to do this with? In general, particularly with Cha-based skills, you're better off going for a build that renders the d20 bit largely irrelevant than worrying about how to take 10
IronWolf
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You can take 10 on ability checks according to the SRD.
Hypertext d20 SRD; Using Skills said:
Particle_Man
Explorer
So far, it seems that I can take 10 on charisma ability checks, but nothing has come up to allow me to do so when distracted or threatened. Ah well. I was hoping for a cheap way to save some grief for someone casting a Planar Binding spell, where it says that rolling a 1 (which to me means "before adding modifiers" so a natural 1) means the bound entity breaks free (and probably ruins your afternoon).
