So, I'm about to start playing in a game as a Rogue (Charlatan) and I was originally going to play a Fetchling but after seeing some things in the ARG I'm considering changing to a Dhampir because of the Natural Charmer feat and the ability to get rid of Light Sensitivity. My character is more social oriented than anything else as I will be a character that comes and goes in the campaign and I'm a Courtier of a Major House in the country. Anyway, what I'm wondering is, can Natural Charmer be used when I use the Rumormonger Rogue Talent? If so, does this make the Bluff check take twenty times as long does it take 20 times as long to spread the rumor?
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I would imagine no. Natural Charmer only works on people that are Friendly or Helpful in regards to you. An entire town/hamlet/city/whatever isn't going to be considered 'Friendly' when using Rumormonger.
But if you come across a settlement where everyone is 'Friendly', then there is no reason why you couldn't use it. Maybe talk to you GM into using Diplomacy (and Natural Charmer) to make the town Friendly in regards to you, then use Rumormonger.
Also, keep in mind, Natural Charmer takes 20 times the natural time. So if it takes at least 1 week to start a rumor, to use Natural Charmer would take 20 weeks. However, for every 5 points that you exceed the DC, you reduce the time by 1d4 days.
I was really wondering about the time limit's on it. It says you make a Bluff check and then it takes a week to propagate throughout the town so I wasn't sure if that meant that only the Bluff check would take 20 times as long or the whole ordeal would. My has already said you could just make a Diplomacy check and if they became friendly to just use this ability so I could possibly use it on a whole town. However, I think I might just go with a Fetchling as I already have the character built and the Natural Charmer feat would only help me in certain situations and I imagine I'll be using Bluff on people with at least indifferent attitudes towards me a lot more than people with friendly attitudes (although Diplomacy could still fix that).