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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 316134" data-attributes="member: 1331">Charisma doesn't only specify physical attractiveness. Simply being good-looking does not help you run a con game (Bluff), or fit in at a court function (Diplomacy), or get a prisoner to reveal secrets (Intimidate). That is all covered by "force of personality" -- basically an ability to project the face that you want the world to see.An ordinary magic device has no sentience and cannot understand language, so it can't be fooled by lies per se. But it is able to sense its wielder in some manner, so it can tell when its power should be activated. The UMD skill lets you put forth a false image to those sensors, and then warp and change that image until you find the combination that triggers the item.</blockquote>