Possible House Rule

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Keeping in mind that I didn't actually play the game and I was more interested in the history and survival in the post-apocalypse aspects than the rules themselves, I think a minus 5 to Charisma is too harsh.
You only have 10 points for those stats, a bit of acid scarring isn't going to be so dramatic compared to the widespread disease problems, scarring from combat injuries, radiation sickness, people wearing the same clothes without washing & bathing for months on end and so on. I would think a minus 2 would be harsh enough.

If the material used is bleach rather than acid, you might stand out from the crowd for actually being clean

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Keeping in mind that I didn't actually play the game and I was more interested in the history and survival in the post-apocalypse aspects than the rules themselves, I think a minus 5 to Charisma is too harsh.

I've always had a problem with altering Charisma vs. looks, probably because I've always felt that looks and attractiveness are two different things. Lots of people are good looking -- much fewer are attractive. I'm sure you all have been set up with that blind date with a girl who is model-beautiful, but five minutes after you met her, are fighting an instinct to strangle her, because of her personality? That's a good example of someone who is very good-looking but also quite unattractive.

Attractiveness would not be affected nearly as much as looks by an acid burn.

Abraham Lincoln is a good example of this -- most women of the day thought he was ugly. They also though he was very attractive.