Magic Armor Abilities - Hideous
A suit of armor or a shield with this property helps you intimidate your enemies. Armors or shields with this property are embellished with scalps, skulls, bones, dried viscera, and other countless horrors. This armor emits a faint odor of rancid meat and a faint illusory miasma of flies. The flies give off a buzzing sound seem to taste the embellishments of flesh and bone. Armor or a shield with the hideous special ability automatically grants its wearer its bonus.
Hideous armor provides a +5 competence bonus on Intimidate checks and a -2 penalty on Diplomacy checks.
Variants Two more powerful versions of the hideous special ability are sometimes used. The improved version grants a +10 competence bonus on Intimidate checks, costs +7,500 gp, +600 XP, +15 days and has a market price of +15,000 gp. The greater special ability grants a +15 competence bonus on Intimidate checks, costs +16,875 gp, +1,350 XP, +34 days and has a market price of +33,750 gp; Weight: -; Price: +3,750 gp.
Aura: Faint conjuration
Caster Level: 4th.
Requirements: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, creator must have 5 ranks of Intimidate
Price: +1,875 gp, +150 XP, +4 days (add to the cost of the armor being improved).
Champions of Ruin