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Stephen_Zuckerman · 04-08-06, 04:26 PM

I'd like to offer my input on the importance of charisma.

As I've been playing the two characters, Pyyran and Cynn Reyer, I've come to notice something: Cynn, despite having a much, much lower charisma score, is much more well-liked by those she interacts with. Perhaps a lot of this issue is simply my own possibly sub-par roleplaying in this area, but my attempts to play a higher WIS, lower CHA, and roughly equal INT have essentially made a more likable person in Cynn than Pyyran. Pyyran is flamboyant, occasionally loud, and rather persuasive. He's an attractive fellow who fills the shoes of your archetypal swashbucklery rogue. But he has a low wisdom score, and doesn't often read into people as well as he probably should. (By low, in his case, I mean 10.) His temper's a bit shorter, and he has a tendancy to speak less plainly than Cynn.

Wisdom and Intelligence are just as important to roleplay as Charisma.

In the case of someone with an 8 charisma trying to copy a Perform check of 36, well... They could get a 19, theoretically, but the basic idea is that they would butcher whatever the other person did. Badly. We have to remember that a Perform check of 10 is Farmer Joe singing the Drinkin' Song of Annie Lou - dead average for a normal person. 36... That should be a performance to sweep away the soul, and it represents, for someone with, say, 20 ranks in Perform, a not inconsiderable effort. If someone's just singing a diddy, they'll usually not do anything more than about a check of 20, even if they have more ranks than that - it's just a matter of them not putting in thier full effort. Myself, as a person... I've got about 3 ranks in Perform, if I had to rate myself. Then a +2 to a check for making music, thanks to a moderate CHA, and I could make up to a 25 check, assuming I were a character in D&D with those stats. However, as I sit here and whistle to myself, it's nothing more than, say, a check of 12, because I'm not putting any real effort into it.

D'you follow?

04-08-06, 04:26 PM	#16
Stephen_Zuckerman Ancient Dragon Characters Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do... Posts: 4,067 Thanks: 2,999 Thanked 349 Times in 255 Posts	Re: Roleplaying Charisma I'd like to offer my input on the importance of charisma. As I've been playing the two characters, Pyyran and Cynn Reyer, I've come to notice something: Cynn, despite having a much, much lower charisma score, is much more well-liked by those she interacts with. Perhaps a lot of this issue is simply my own possibly sub-par roleplaying in this area, but my attempts to play a higher WIS, lower CHA, and roughly equal INT have essentially made a more likable person in Cynn than Pyyran. Pyyran is flamboyant, occasionally loud, and rather persuasive. He's an attractive fellow who fills the shoes of your archetypal swashbucklery rogue. But he has a low wisdom score, and doesn't often read into people as well as he probably should. (By low, in his case, I mean 10.) His temper's a bit shorter, and he has a tendancy to speak less plainly than Cynn. Wisdom and Intelligence are just as important to roleplay as Charisma. In the case of someone with an 8 charisma trying to copy a Perform check of 36, well... They could get a 19, theoretically, but the basic idea is that they would butcher whatever the other person did. Badly. We have to remember that a Perform check of 10 is Farmer Joe singing the Drinkin' Song of Annie Lou - dead average for a normal person. 36... That should be a performance to sweep away the soul, and it represents, for someone with, say, 20 ranks in Perform, a not inconsiderable effort. If someone's just singing a diddy, they'll usually not do anything more than about a check of 20, even if they have more ranks than that - it's just a matter of them not putting in thier full effort. Myself, as a person... I've got about 3 ranks in Perform, if I had to rate myself. Then a +2 to a check for making music, thanks to a moderate CHA, and I could make up to a 25 check, assuming I were a character in D&D with those stats. However, as I sit here and whistle to myself, it's nothing more than, say, a check of 12, because I'm not putting any real effort into it. D'you follow? __________________ That his heart is a seething mass of black evil, there can be little doubt. ~ Darkstorme, on Barret Glib.