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'Beautician' is in the Eye of the Beholder
The 'Beautician' skill would be far more useful if the point of the game was to make characters beautiful.
It isn't. At least not for most players it seems.
The purpose of this skill is to make people appear more...appealing, but I noticed that most of the examples apply the skill in a way that misses this point. Using the skill to become an Avon lady to sneak into a house is akin to Homer Simpson getting a book about "How To Break Out of Jail" while in jail and then using the book to knock someone out and escape.
Successful use of a skill like this should affect the way other characters FEEL about a character.
To make it applicable to 'Disguise' just feels like a feeble attempt to justify its presence in the game to players who don't see the point to being able to enhance a character's natural beauty. And this is probably because most game mechanics do not support in game effects beyond killing something, stealing something, detecting something, or enabling a character to avoid such occuring to them.
Does Con X 2.0?
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