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Liartes wrote:Just one question though. How do we know if the person disguising themselves has switched out their cloak, boots, etc?
Melakin Skywieder wrote:So how does Barkskin or stoneskin come into play?
Jordicus wrote:so simply put, having Barkskin alone is not enough to claim as a disguise, but it could enhance other disguising steps
Me wrote:So I'd say that barkskin of itself, would be a fairly effective disquise, but not foolproof. I hope that is clear enough.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote:The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prosperity, but in the development of the soul.
Bear wrote:First, just because someone can see an item doesn?t mean that he can identify it.
Second, just like a disguised individual needs to RP the event, I suggest that a witness also has a similar obligation.
Finally, I trust that DMs will not perform the analysis for the player.
Aloro wrote:Basically, Barkskin, like most things that act to disguise you, effectively raises the difficulty to identify the person. This check is further modified by other factors, the most important of which is knowing the person well. Kira is married to Delen and knows him intimately, and so she has a very high modifier to identify him in any disguise. On the other hand, someone who's only met Delen once or only had him described to them could very possibly be fooled by even a minor disguise.
- Aloro
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote:The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prosperity, but in the development of the soul.
Bear wrote:There is a specific (in-game) skill that we should really rely on to "see" through a disguise -- Spot skill.
Aloro wrote:Agreed, Bear. The Spot skill is the appropriate means for players to see through physical disguises. However, the Listen skill is the appropriate means to identify someone by voice, and I would argue that a straight Intelligence check is probably the best way to test to see if a player can remember the little details of someone's appearance and piece together clues. Because the mechanics are complicated, we're not setting DCs or giving precise rules for this. General guidelines will have to do.
- Aloro
Vanor wrote:CPU wrote:*sniff, sniff - recognizes your scent*
Considering the time frame we're working with here, reconizing someone by scent is unlikely at best.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote:The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prosperity, but in the development of the soul.
Diamond wrote:*chuckles* I've already had one PC in-game standing next to my "concealed" character identifying her as female by her "perfume".
I thought it was pretty cute, OOC, and it didn't disrupt the game flow at all.
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