Appearance and disfigurement

[WaterAndWindSpirit]

Hello all!

So, how would someone who would normally have a high physical Appearance were it not for heavy scarring due to a well proportioned body and who keep being pretty if you look at them from too far away to see their scars (Glasgow grin, burn scars all over, the works) be treated rules wise?

Thanks!

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by WaterAndWindSpirit

Hello all!

So, how would someone who would normally have a high physical Appearance were it not for heavy scarring due to a well proportioned body and who keep being pretty if you look at them from too far away to see their scars (Glasgow grin, burn scars all over, the works) be treated rules wise?

Thanks!

Well ordinarily it wouldn't improve reaction rolls, so it it would be just an element in their physical description. I have designed a character who was disfigured but wore a mask. The mask was a mitigator on her Ugly and a Gadget limitation on her Attractive since the rest of her was unscarred except for her missing hand and forearm that were replaced with an attractive shiny metal prosthesis.

[tbone]

If the the unappealing features can be hidden in pretty easy ways – by presenting the left side instead of the right, or by wearing an eyepatch, etc., then I suppose changed Appearance with a cost mod, as David Johnston2 suggests, is the way to go.

If the circumstances are quite limited, you could follow the example of a few interesting perks that function as improved Appearance in limited circumstances – "Only in photographs" and "Only when in uniform" are two I can recall at the moment.

For the character you have in mind, I could imagine a similar perk that works as a level of improved Appearance "Only at distance of 10 yards+" or whatever distance works for you. ("Only at a distance of Per yards+" if you want to get needlessly fancy. : )

[CoyoteGestalt]

Originally Posted by tbone

If the circumstances are quite limited, you could follow the example of a few interesting perks that function as improved Appearance in limited circumstances – "Only in photographs" and "Only when in uniform" are two I can recall at the moment.
For the character you have in mind, I could imagine a similar perk that works as a level of improved Appearance "Only at distance of 10 yards+" or whatever distance works for you. ("Only at a distance of Per yards+" if you want to get needlessly fancy. : )

And correspondingly, there's at least one canonical quirk in the relevant Power-Ups book that offers a temporarily decreased appearance in particular circumstances (when a particular mental disadvantage is active), so you could perhaps have something similar for a decreased appearance under specific conditions that are mostly under the character's control, if you feel that suits the situation better.