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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9713114" data-attributes="member: 4534">In the early 90s, there was a little magazine published for Cyberpunk 2020 called Interface.  It was a quarterly magazine that introduced new cyberware, weapons, drugs, NPCs, organizations, etc., etc. to use in your Cyberpunk game.  In 1991, Peter Christian wrote an article for Interface called "Getting Along:  Interpersonal Relationships in Cyberpunk," and what prompted him to write it was encountering Cyberpunk GMs and players who treated Empathy as little more than a stat to be used to purchase as much cyberware as possible without going cyberpsycho.  Christian believed a character's attributes should shape their personality to a degree.  In Cyberpunk, Christian argues a low Empathy low Cool individual is a social outcast.  They lack the ability to connect with other people and lacks the self-control to refrain from acting in an inappropriate manner.  Whereas someone with a high Cool and Empathy are born leaders, people who have self-control and the ability to motivate others because they understand people.  This is an article that's stuck with me for nearly thirty-four years, and I still think of it when I make an NPC or a player character.  I consider their attributes and how it would affect their personality.  I can't be the only person who does this.  Do you incorporate a player's attributes into their personalities at all?  How?  Which games do you do this?  How would you play a D&D character with a low Wisdom but high Intelligence?  In Savage Worlds, what does it mean to have a low Spirit and high Intelligence?</blockquote>

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