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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delta" data-source="post: 3392311" data-attributes="member: 40269">Very true. I was running D&D module X9 (I think), and it had this new undead creature, a big floating spirit-skull, that popped up and attacked. My players nixed it in one or two rounds. Then I showed them the full-page illustration in the module, and they said "Holy crap! There's no way we'd have fought that if we knew what it looked like!" (To this day I regret not showing them the illustration first.)On the subject of Charisma, I have no problem with physical attractiveness being part of the measurement. You may not think many politicians are beautiful, but in actuality they can't look that awful and still get elected (political workers are keenly aware of this -- consider the pains taken to make FDR not look frail, or how bitter Nixon was after pretty-boy JFK showed him up on TV, or how whichever presidential candidate is taller wins the popular vote about 2/3 the time! -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_U.S._Presidents" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_U.S._Presidents</a>) Also note that in AD&D Comelines was still closely "linked" to Charisma by way of a specific modifier to the roll.</blockquote>