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Ioskeha · 09-22-05, 12:03 PM

I'm relatively new to playing DnD. I've only been playing it for seven or so months now. I have no experience with playing DnD outside of NWN; all my role-playing experience has come from playing MUDs. With that said I think the hardest stat for me to role-play is Charisma.

In MUDs that have used this stat I've always thought of them as your characters base personality. If you have a high Charisma your character will most likely have a positive outlook on life, if it's low then they'll tend to have a negative outlook. Now I'm not saying that a character with a high Charisma score couldn't have a negative personality or vice versa, but more along the lines of decision making. Like lets stay that you're in a party. This party has decided to setup an ambush. A charcter with a higher then average Charisma would think that this ambush would work with little to no harm to the part, while a character with a lower then average Charisma would think that this ambush is a bad idea and that too many people would be injured, and a character with average Charisma would follow the general flow of the party.

How far off is my reasoning with this?

09-22-05, 12:03 PM	#1
Ioskeha Adamantium Golem Characters Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Somewhere in the South; currently Chattanooga Tennessee Posts: 294 Thanks: 5 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Roleplaying Charisma I'm relatively new to playing DnD. I've only been playing it for seven or so months now. I have no experience with playing DnD outside of NWN; all my role-playing experience has come from playing MUDs. With that said I think the hardest stat for me to role-play is Charisma. In MUDs that have used this stat I've always thought of them as your characters base personality. If you have a high Charisma your character will most likely have a positive outlook on life, if it's low then they'll tend to have a negative outlook. Now I'm not saying that a character with a high Charisma score couldn't have a negative personality or vice versa, but more along the lines of decision making. Like lets stay that you're in a party. This party has decided to setup an ambush. A charcter with a higher then average Charisma would think that this ambush would work with little to no harm to the part, while a character with a lower then average Charisma would think that this ambush is a bad idea and that too many people would be injured, and a character with average Charisma would follow the general flow of the party. How far off is my reasoning with this?