Nanopast disguise rating, can't find it Options

[Midas]

Sounds interesting. A few of my players have characters with wigs. I called it as 100 new yen for a wig and 500 for a fiberoptic one (that changes colour but not shape). Clothes I would cover in lifestyle costs, although if you want a nicely cut power suit for your Japanese salaryman mode I would probably ask you to shell out a few hundred for it if you didn't want to just get Armoured Clothing. Feel free to suggest these ballpark ideas to your GM and see what he says.

[Midas]

If you don't want to be identified as yourself, whether it's disguising yourself as a specific person or as just a random individual, a roll should be made. Otherwise people will still be able to identify who you are with just a passing glance no matter how much you ruffle up your hair.

As GM I never get to play characters, but I did design an elf assassin character with Blandness, Human Looking and fiberoptic hair. The idea was that she could change fairly rapidly from a brown-haired human to a fair-haired elf by just changing the hair colour and tying it back to reveal the ever-so-slightly pointy elf ears. She has the disguise skill via the Stealth group, but I figured that the above quality/cyber combination would allow a good quick-change on the fly.

[Midas]

From what you says, the character seems to be using his natural face almost only when he's under the shower at home (opening the door to the mailman or pizzaboys ranks as miscellaneous encounter in my book). Living that way is likely to have a noticeable effect on the character's personality.

A lot of players on my table have developed different "personalities" for their characters under their various fake IDs. I see that as good roleplaying more than anything else. I don't see it as being much of a strain for runners though, as most of the time they will be pretending to be somebody else anyway. It is never good to let the cops passing by see that you are a lean well-oiled fighting machine after all ...

[Saint Hallow]

My thoughts exactly. I've spoken with my brother (a NYPD cop) & some associates from prior work (SEC & CFTC federal agents)... you never wanna look like a person who's in shape. The bald, ugly, fat guy who's sweating while eating a donut is less suspicious (or at less desired to be seen) than the un-naturally fit guy with great hair. Either suspicion, jealousy, or something that makes you stand out in a positive way will draw attention. Now if you look like crap, you'll get hassled to leave the nice area (triple AAA neighborhood sec guard tossing the bum/street trash out) or be treated like an invisible piece of scum.

My character concept is that depending on their neighborhood & job, that's the ID/face that will be used. There's still the daytime hours or non-working hours available for personal/free time that the real face can come out once in a while.

[Mardrax]

From what you says, the character seems to be using his natural face almost only when he's under the shower at home (opening the door to the mailman or pizzaboys ranks as miscellaneous encounter in my book). Living that way is likely to have a noticeable effect on the character's personality.

Really, for the diguise-proficient mys-ad I'm playing at the moment, with Facial Sculpt, Melanin Control and the Makeover spell, choosing a face to wear for the day comes as as much a part of his morning ritual as choosing the clothes to go with it. The concept of having your own face is nice, but in the end, you don't really notice anything of it, unless walking past a mirrored surface.

[Ol' Scratch]

As GM I never get to play characters, but I did design an elf assassin character with Blandness, Human Looking and fiberoptic hair. The idea was that she could change fairly rapidly from a brown-haired human to a fair-haired elf by just changing the hair colour and tying it back to reveal the ever-so-slightly pointy elf ears. She has the disguise skill via the Stealth group, but I figured that the above quality/cyber combination would allow a good quick-change on the fly.

Only if the Disguise (or possibly Con) skill test was successful. Otherwise people would still recognize her, albeit with a bit of an issue of describing her to others courtesy of Blandness.