Checks to impersonate someone you already look like

[Targen]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me what skill is used for checks to impersonate someone while you're in their body, using effects like Mind Switch and Magic Jar?

Thanks.

[Talcrion]

Myself I would call for a bluff check.

[Targen]

That's what I would have thought. My main concern is that the synergies table from 3.5 has bluff giving a bonus to disguise checks "to act in character". I haven't found anything apart from this about acting in character but I thought it might suggest some sort of precedent.

[Hayato Ken]

Actually it should be a disguise check. There are several examples for it, like most or all of the corresponding magic giving you +10 on disguise checks. That is if you look like someone.

[Turkina_B]

Bluff Checks as in Shattered Star AP

AP:

PC being in the body of Sorshen has to make Bluff checks to convince others that they are indeed Sorshen.

[IejirIsk]

disguise to look like, bluff to sound like... makes sense to me. Probably some bonuses, since they are looking correct, unless they go way outta character.

[Targen]

Thanks for your opinions, everybody. Hayako, I'm a little puzzled as to what you mean when you say the corresponding magic gives you +10 on disguise checks - Magic Jar is the closest thing to Mind Switch that I know of (I am less familiar with magic than with psionics), and it doesn't grant any disguise bonus. Disguise Self does, but that's just creating an illusion to disguise yourself - you're still using the disguise skill to determine the quality of the illusion.