Disguise: Minor details only

[Weirdo]

What is considered minor details only?

Just a change of clothes and how you wear your hair? Dirtying/cleaning your face? Adding/removing simple makeup like lipstick or eyeliner? False birthmark? Cane and limp?

[Claxon]

I guess minor changes would include anything that does not attempt to disguise yourself as a different gender, race, age category, or size category.

[Weirdo]

That seems odd - you'd jump immediately from +5 to -2 on your check.

Edit: seems like a +0 area would exist at least

[Claxon]

Weirdo wrote:

That seems odd - you'd jump immediately from +5 to -2 on your check.

Edit: seems like a +0 area would exist at least

Without more guidelines from the skill it's hard to say.

Clearly gender, race, age, and size aren't minor because of how the rules are presented. But nothing else is mentioned to provide even the slightest clue.

And I guess it really doesn't matter when all it comes down to is the modifiers to your disguise roll. If a person's perception check beats it then they realize you're disguised, and if not they don't. I'm not sure if more detail is really necessary or not.

[GralphidB]

Here's a proposal: Maybe making yourself not look like yourself is a "minor change" worth +5, and making yourself look like somebody else (but with the same gender, race, age, size, etc.) is the +0 area.

So the boundary is concealing vs. imitating? Just a proposed house rule, since the RAW is silent on the issue.

[Weirdo]

Just trying to figure out if there's a RAI or general consensus on where to draw the line.

At the moment my issue is I'm trying to deal with a player who was hit by a magical effect that gave his character's skin a stony texture. The character doesn't want it to draw attention so a Disguise check is called for to hide that single feature. I'm trying to decide whether this qualifies as a "minor detail."

[Balgin]

I'd say that with what you've just described......

wrapping up warm & covering as much skin as possible to reduce the chance of someone noticing it would be possible with the disguise skill.

Finding some kind of special ointment/makeup to rub into the skin to make it appear less unusual might take magic to achieve successfully (although if covered with mud and dirt people might not notice the difference).