Basic Size and Shape

[KingoftheCanucks]

Heylo

One of my PC's in my Pathfinder 1st edition game is a Ratfolk and has this item:

Mask, Stalkers

Preserved sections harvested from several different human faces cover this mask. When worn, the mask desaturates the wearer’s color, making him appear shadowy and granting a +5 competence bonus on Stealth checks. Once per day as a full-round action, the wearer can cause the mask’s features to take on the appearance of any creature of the wearer’s basic size and shape within 60 feet that he observes, allowing the wearer to adopt that creature’s appearance for 1 hour. This grants him a +10 bonus on Disguise checks made to appear as the creature. The mask also grants the wearer a +1 bonus on attack rolls and weapon damage rolls made against the creature he is disguised as, as the mask builds upon the wearer’s rage and jealousy of the target’s appearance.

Being category small as a Ratfolk, he wouldn't be able to take on the guise of a medium sized person, would that be how one would interpret the same basic shape and size statement.

Thanks for your aid.

GM Colormage

[Taja the Barbarian]

Ratfolk are Small Humanoids by default, so any creature of Small size and more-or-less humanoid shape should be valid...

[Azothath]

KingoftheCanucks wrote:

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One of my PC's in my Pathfinder 1st edition game is a Ratfolk and has this item:
[!]Stalker's Mask[head] $3500
Being category small as a Ratfolk, he wouldn't be able to take on the guise of a medium sized person, would that be how one would interpret the same basic shape and size statement.

Thanks for your aid.
GM Colormage

the item is banned in PFS. Likely due to the untyped bonuses and attack bonuses that accumulate/stack with anything along with the item being underpriced. A GM should give them a bonus type. Duration should be 50min. A home GM should give the item penalties so the price discounts have (formal) meaning.

1) the shadowy coloration IS noticeable and always active. +5 comp Stlth but kinda looks weird like "bleaching"(see Gnome). How noticeable? up to you as the GM but likely a circumstance(crcm) bonus/penalty on determining race or 'looking normal'.

2) full round action "appearance", "size & shape" target within 60ft gives +10 (untyped) disguise & +1(+1) (untyped) vs target for duration 1hr. The rest is fluff but as a GM you can interpret the fluff as a crcm bonus/penalty, the attack seems to be a morale bonus. The spell used to create the item is disguise self:I1 so if you need more info see the spells in the Requirements of the item (not always helpful).
from the spell; cannot change creature type (small humanoid), illusion is only visual, Illusion Will DC 12 to disbelieve {5th Lvl-> Int 13(+1)}. Cannot be tiny or medium sized (even though the distance of change supports that alteration - it's a Game thing). Could be a human child as young template reduces size. Given the theatrics, gnome and wayang seem the best targets.

[KingoftheCanucks]

Thank you for the reply Taja and the detailed breakdown Azothath !!

[Melkiador]

It’s probably banned in PFS for the “evil” description. Can’t have pathfinders carrying around skinned human faces.