TOPIC: What the heck is "Enhance Disguise"?

Apologies if this has been asked and answered - but I was looking for more detail than I could find on tokendb...

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"Adds +5 to Disguise checks for the rest of the room

This is not a polymorph potion. It won’t change your shape, it just helps you to blend in with your surroundings."

Here's the thing... when has there been a disguise check in the dungeon... Just curious.... this is one of the most intriguing potions I've seen in a while... I just can't figure when or where to use it!

Thoughts?

I was once on a run where all to of us entered the room and turned in the disguise potion. We were all the wizard so the monster didn't know who to attack. That was just us being creative in grind though.

Tokens are designed months in advance. Sometimes the module changes because a mechanic is deemed too clunky or a monster is redesigned. Tokens which were once important get written out of a job in the middle of the Con, and sometimes before the Con even starts.

I’m pretty sure there are a few like that in the 2018 collection.

Picc wrote: I was once on a run where all to of us entered the room and turned in the disguise potion. We were all the wizard so the monster didn't know who to attack. That was just us being creative in grind though.

We did something similar in a different Grind, one of us disguised ourself as a cultist. Then proceeded to walk into the cult meeting and started attacking.

Picc wrote: I was once on a run where all to of us entered the room and turned in the disguise potion. We were all the wizard so the monster didn't know who to attack. That was just us being creative in grind though.

Grind - yeah - I could see some fun with that in grind!

Brad Mortensen wrote: Tokens are designed months in advance. Sometimes the module changes because a mechanic is deemed too clunky or a monster is redesigned. Tokens which were once important get written out of a job in the middle of the Con, and sometimes before the Con even starts.

I’m pretty sure there are a few like that in the 2018 collection.

I buy that. I just thought that this one in particular could have a lot of fun side uses.

Grekel! wrote:

Brad Mortensen wrote: Tokens are designed months in advance. Sometimes the module changes because a mechanic is deemed too clunky or a monster is redesigned. Tokens which were once important get written out of a job in the middle of the Con, and sometimes before the Con even starts.

I’m pretty sure there are a few like that in the 2018 collection.

I buy that. I just thought that this one in particular could have a lot of fun side uses.

Brad Mortensen wrote: Tokens are designed months in advance. Sometimes the module changes because a mechanic is deemed too clunky or a monster is redesigned. Tokens which were once important get written out of a job in the middle of the Con, and sometimes before the Con even starts.

I’m pretty sure there are a few like that in the 2018 collection.

The alternate possibility is that Jeff is just messing with our heads.

Fiddy wrote:

Grekel! wrote:

Brad Mortensen wrote: Tokens are designed months in advance. Sometimes the module changes because a mechanic is deemed too clunky or a monster is redesigned. Tokens which were once important get written out of a job in the middle of the Con, and sometimes before the Con even starts.

I’m pretty sure there are a few like that in the 2018 collection.

I buy that. I just thought that this one in particular could have a lot of fun side uses.

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N1: Disguise yourself as the ogre mage before heading into Rakshasha room?

N2: disguise entire party as giants as you enter the giant room?

N3: diguise the party as hellkyries before any combat?

Based on that it almost sounds like disguise could be a standard mechanism by which to get a surprise round before combat year over year.

Based on some of the other "useless" items from the year disquise was printed, I suspected there might have been a plan to have a mechanic where a character in a hood, who could not be identified by smell got to roll a disquise check to do something, maybe open a window to blinding sunlight or something that was scrapped from the final design. that's pure speculation though.

Picc wrote:

Fiddy wrote:

Grekel! wrote:

Brad Mortensen wrote: Tokens are designed months in advance. Sometimes the module changes because a mechanic is deemed too clunky or a monster is redesigned. Tokens which were once important get written out of a job in the middle of the Con, and sometimes before the Con even starts.

I’m pretty sure there are a few like that in the 2018 collection.

I buy that. I just thought that this one in particular could have a lot of fun side uses.

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N1: Disguise yourself as the ogre mage before heading into Rakshasha room?

N2: disguise entire party as giants as you enter the giant room?

N3: diguise the party as hellkyries before any combat?

Based on that it almost sounds like disguise could be a standard mechanism by which to get a surprise round before combat year over year.

Based on some of the other "useless" items from the year disquise was printed, I suspected there might have been a plan to have a mechanic where a character in a hood, who could not be identified by smell got to roll a disquise check to do something, maybe open a window to blinding sunlight or something that was scrapped from the final design. that's pure speculation though.

I'd be curious to see how often DMs would roll with it. I think I mulched most of my potions of disguise though.

I have kept 10 in one of those just in case situations.

I know I am necroing a thread, but I have to say that Origins' True Raid I drank 2 of these to attempt to guise myself as Lori to full Avery. It did not work but it was fun nonetheless.