Appearance

Appearance is a combination of overall physical attractiveness, how your character carries herself and her typical degree of grooming. It covers her ability to make a good first impression and to generate an instinctive response in others.

Trait Effects: Someone with Appearance 1 is either very plain or downright ugly. Someone with Appearance 3 is quite good-looking—many people look at him when he walks down the street. Someone with Appearance 5 is likely the most attractive and desirous individual most people have ever met—even the most jaded sovereigns turn their heads when he enters the room.

Social Combat and Appearance

In Social Combat, characters affected by a social attack made by a being of lower Appearance add a modifier to their mental DV equal to (their Appearance – the Appearance of the attacker). Characters attacked by beings of greater Appearance suffer a DV penalty of (the aggressor's Appearance – their own Appearance). This modifier cannot exceed +3 or -3.

Characters with a hideous visage have a higher effective Appearance rating for the express purpose of intimidating others or resisting intimidation (Appearance 1 = Appearance 3, while Appearance 0 = Appearance 5).