Increase ability to Bluff


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Silver Crusade

I've got an Elf Wizard who has a great Dex and Intel, but a lousy Charisma (7). I'm trying to figure out how to increase his ability in Bluff for future use for situations where he might want to disguise the spell he's casting until last minute to avoid being counterspelled, etc. This could come in handy as he levels up. As far as bluffing in dialogue, etc., he just generally doesn't. Any suggestions, feats, etc. I could take to improve his ability in that regards?

Grand Lodge

Circlet of Persuasion: +3 bonus on all Cha based skills
Diefic Obedience Calistra: +4 bonus on all Cha Based Skills
Headband of Alluring Charisma: +2-+6 bonus on Charisma Ability
Tome of Leadership and Influence: +1-+5 on Charisma Ability
Rod of Splendor: +4 to Charisma Ability
Pink and Green Sphere Ioun Stone: +2 to Charisma Ability
Deceitful: +2 on Bluff and Disguise, +4 at 10 ranks
Skill Focus Bluff: +3 on Bluff checks, +6 at 10 ranks
Fast-Talker: +1 bonus and bluff is a class skill
Snake Familiar: +3 to Bluff

Think there is a trait that allows you to use INT instead of CHA on bluff, but not sure.

Using the best of the above, you can have a bluff of (1 rank) +24, (10 ranks) +38

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The trait is Clever Wordplay, which lets you use Int in place of Cha for one skill. But are you even sure your GM will let you use Bluff for that? For what you want, there's a feat called Spell Bluff, which increases the DC to identify your spells by 4.

Sczarni

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Mask of Stony Demeanor may help. It's a +10 to Lie attempts and +5 to Feint attempts. 500GP. Head slot.


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Mummer's Ruff 3,500 gp when imitating another's voice.
Glibness (Potion or UMD a scroll/wand).
Alter Self (when trying to mimic another race).-whoops this is disguise only.
Keeper of the Veil trait (*competence bonus, may not stack)

Silver Crusade

Thanks all for the great ideas.
On the glibness, is it possible to obtain somehow or forge somehow a ring of glibness rather than a potion, so that one wearing the ring would always have the effect?


Custom items are always up to the game master, but in general I personally think that always-on rings of spell-in-a-can are generally overpowered. (The glibness spell also doesn't do what you want; it only applies to lying and not to other uses of the Bluff skill.)

Silver Crusade

That's a good point.I suppose general "boost charisma" magical items are probably a better investment and more worth saving up for.

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