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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon_Dahl" data-source="post: 5342922" data-attributes="member: 89822">Just to add my two coppers in, I've noticed more misconceptions about Charisma than any other ability score. It seems that the whole concept of Charisma is difficult especially for beginners.Charisma is a dump statIt depends really. If the party has a good spokesman, that goes a long way. Otherwise low Charisma can hurt you. For instance for a random munchin player Cha 4 might not seem like much, but if you roll untrained diplomacy checks you have as much as chance to make someone your enemy than your friend... and this just when you TRY to befriend them! Now that is hard IMOLow Charisma means that you're scaryFairly common misconception. Low Charisma means that you are repulsive, can't make yourself understood or something else like that. If you are 9 feet tall, you have a giant axe and you seem like an aggressive creature with hardly any intelligence, then you are threatening DESPITE your Charisma or any rolls.Low Charisma is dependent on your race and alignmentNo it isn't. You are still an irritating human scumbag with Cha 4, even if you have LG alignment.Low Charisma means you're quiet, especially if it's a PCNot necessarely. Many people (me included) like people who are quiet listener-types. It's possible to have amazingly beautiful woman who hardly ever talks or some ugly mutant who loves to hear his own voice. Low Charisma is not about how much you talk, it's about how and when you talk. Someone with a really low Charisma would talk at inappropiate times, interrupt people, talk too quietly or possibly yell all the time and commit faux pas after another.If your face gets mutilated, your Cha drops right?This is a hard one, because Cha is also about physical attractiveness. There is no clear answer to this, at least from Core. In my games I rule such mutilations as an additional effect, usually that people get shocked to see at first but it doesn't chance their attitude. After all they could feel pity for you or respect your struggles or just feel disgusted about your face.</blockquote>

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