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Pathfinder Unchained / Diseases and Poisons / Poisons

Charisma Poison Track

Source Pathfinder Unchained pg. 140

Healthy—Weakened—Impaired—Pliable—Catatonic—Dead



Weakened: A character whose sense of self is weakened by Charisma poison takes a –2 penalty on all Charisma-based skill checks and ability checks. A character with spellcasting based on Charisma decreases his DCs by 2 and can no longer cast his highest level of spells.

Impaired: A character impaired by Charisma poison doesn’t add his Charisma bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as lay on hands) and doesn’t gain bonus spells per day from his Charisma. He takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Charisma-based rolls. A Charisma-based caster reduces his DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast his 2 highest levels of spells.

Pliable: A character rendered pliable by Charisma poison has little sense of self and will go along with nearly anything. Bluff, Diplomacy, and Intimidate checks automatically succeed against a pliable character, except Diplomacy checks to improve a pliable character’s attitude, which have the normal DC. This still does not allow characters to whom the pliable character is unfriendly or hostile to make requests of the pliable character using Diplomacy.

Catatonic: A character rendered catatonic by Charisma poison can see, hear, and process his environment, but has lost all agency and can’t interact with the world in any way.

Dead: The character loses even autonomic functions, and dies.