Disguise

-disguise

: Disguise character. 

"Your character attempts to conceal or alter their appearance. If you use -disguise, then whenever someone uses the *looks* emote, they will roll spot and you'll roll the higher of your bluff and perform; if they roll lower then they won't get any details about you. "

With points in Bluff or Perform, a character can use -disguise to disguise himself from others. Their disguise can be emoted to whatever the player wishes, but once the disguise is up, the *looks* command will indicate the character is disguised, and thus the character should not be "recognized" IC, unless the first *looks* succeed to see through that disguise. Skilled disguise artists have a chance of breaking exiles.

A character in disguise will have (disguised) appear after their name in the translated text on the right hand server window. If a disguised character is speaking Common, the text will now be 'translated' on the right hand side so that people can tell they're disguised.

Otherwise there's no mechanical change to characters when disguised at the moment. OOC displayed name above head of your character and description remain the same. You can change your characters' description by using the command -description.

Fireboar, on IG-earned titles

-disguise is a disguise feature, NOT a description feature. Acceptable uses of -disguise should either make yourself inconspicuous (e.g. "Grubby Man") or look like someone you're not (who may or may not exist). Don’t use it as "titles in names", to describe character or as a name change feature. Keep it short.

An example of this being used wrong would be Commander John (Disguised) or Mayor Jill (Disguised), UNLESS you are pretending to be that person, and then, it's best to keep it to John or Jill.

Description by Arelithian: (corrected by Mith)

The higher of your Bluff and Perform skills are used as your Disguise skill

Anyone who uses *looks* on you while you are disguised makes an opposed Spot check against your Disguise

If you win, you both get a message saying that they failed to recognize you.

If they win, you both get a message saying that they recognized you, and they get the standard *looks* output.

Mithreas: "skill focuses and gear count in the disguise roll (on both sides)"

Note: True Seeing does nothing to the disguise check.

Please, read Mithreas' response to future changes on disguise before making suggestions on its change.

Disguise roleplay notes

When it forces the character to see something thats not mechanically there

Mithreas:

"I spoke to a kobold who was wandering the surface RPing being disguised as a Dwarf. Now, he was RPing it just fine, and I didn't have issues with his approach. But his character still looked like a kobold... and anyone who saw him from a distance or from stealth (or before he pressed his quick-slotted emote) would just see a kobold.

To me, this is a great example of RPing beyond what the mechanics of the server allow. -disguise doesn't allow you to change your racial appearance (a half orc is still obviously a half orc, a kobold is still a kobold) and thus if you RP your character as resembling another race, you're now in the territory of 'can only be done with the consent of other players' - i.e. they are freely allowed to ignore your claims to look like something that you plainly don't resemble mechanically.

Or the simple version: No using -disguise to resemble a different race. -disguise means that people should ignore the floaty name over your head, but does NOT let you ignore what your avatar physically looks like.

And before you ask, yes, -disguise may be extended in future. But until that time, the above holds."

..."the decision is what it is because of the need to preserve the overall RP environment of the server."

Recognizing disguise

Situation 1

Mithreas:

"Person A is wanted in town X.

Person A is in town X and is recognized by person B. Person B points out that person A is, in fact, despite appearances, person A. Guards must choose whether to believe person B or not.

i.e. if your source is good, you can trust them. NPCs will by default continue not to respond. (I'm looking forward to someone accusing some random bystander of being Krad in disguise)."

Situation 2

Person A spends 90% of his/her time in disguise. Person B has recognized them a few times, and sees them yet again, but this time rolls poorly. A is wearing the same clothing A always wears.

Mithreas:

"If A is using the same disguise as always, B can recognize the disguise. If you have enough information without the floaty name to conclusively recognize someone, then you have enough information. A good RPer will occasionally mistake A in disguise for someone other than A who wears similar clothing, if applicable.

In all cases, we have logs that will be used as the ultimate arbiter, if people are playing silly buggers (on either side). Good advice to all players is to try and bias yourself AGAINST your own character in cases like these."