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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5365124" data-attributes="member: 92511">OO! What about making the secrets/stone be effective at the same time! Hear me out.So, you look into the persons eyes for 1 round, you get your secrets, if you desire NOT to turn them to stone, you avert your eyes, close them, look at the ground, whatever. It could be a skill check or worked out like a feat. If you don't avert in time, then the person gets petrified. If you do, no worries.Also kinda de-powers the gaze attack in that you REALLY have to stare at the person...look at them for more than 1 round, before the petrification starts. If they fail their save in round one, you get their secrets, they fail it in round too, they're stone.If this option works for you and your DM, I'd HIGHLY advise investing in some potions or a (highly charged up) wand of Stone to Flesh..ya know, for those times you don't mean to turn someone into stone...Nobody's perfect. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />This would also allow you to keep your &quot;social&quot; nature in that you could be in a tavern full of people and have a grand ole time...long as you simply avert your eyes/don't make eye contact with anyone you chat with...Of course, as a DM, if you were drinking/got drunk I'd be sure to make you make checks every few round to remember/control yourself enough not to look directly at anyone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 5365124, member: 92511"] OO! What about making the secrets/stone be effective at the same time! Hear me out. So, you look into the persons eyes for 1 round, you get your secrets, if you desire NOT to turn them to stone, you avert your eyes, close them, look at the ground, whatever. It could be a skill check or worked out like a feat. If you don't avert in time, then the person gets petrified. If you do, no worries. Also kinda de-powers the gaze attack in that you REALLY have to stare at the person...look at them for more than 1 round, before the petrification starts. If they fail their save in round one, you get their secrets, they fail it in round too, they're stone. If this option works for you and your DM, I'd HIGHLY advise investing in some potions or a (highly charged up) wand of Stone to Flesh..ya know, for those times you don't [I]mean[/I] to turn someone into stone...Nobody's perfect. ;) This would also allow you to keep your "social" nature in that you could be in a tavern full of people and have a grand ole time...long as you simply avert your eyes/don't make eye contact with anyone you chat with...Of course, as a DM, if you were drinking/got drunk I'd be sure to make you make checks every few round to remember/control yourself enough not to look directly at anyone. [/QUOTE]

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