Disguise

From Masq
Category: Abilities
Subcategory: Secondary Skill
Prerequisites: None
Reference: Vampire Storytellers Companion (1st edition/WW02301), page 19.


Disguise allows you to alter your own appearance and those of others with the proper application of makeup, clothing and props, and, at higher levels, prosthetics. All of these tasks are extremely difficult without access to the proper materials.


x Unskilled: A wig and a prayer...
• Novice: You've taken a basic class in stage makeup. You can do some very basic and subtle effects, but impersonating someone else is beyond you.
•• Practiced: You can fool someone who knows neither you nor the person you're impersonating. You could put together horror-type makeup for a haunted house.
••• Competent: You can effect substantial changes in your appearance and Appearance. You can pass casual glances from casual acquaintances.
•••• Expert: You could find employment as a cinematic makeup technician, and can create a hundred different faces for yourself or your subjects. Gender-switching is not out of the question if your subject can do the voice and body language.
••••• Master: You can accomplish transformations that most people would think impossible.


Possessed by: Entertainers, Spies, Con Artists, F/X Technicians
Example Specialties: Theater and Television, False Wounds and Disfigurements, Concealing Identity, Impersonating Others