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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thasmodious" data-source="post: 5376965" data-attributes="member: 63272">Not really.  You'd have a clumsy character that has learned some skills, with some difficulty.  For a real world example - I am not particularly dexterous (I wouldn't put myself at a 7, but I am not rolling in the positive modifier department).  I can, however, skate like the wind, due to years of playing street hockey (inline skates, but I can skate on blades, too).  Forwards, backwards, transitions, crossovers, anything short of pulling off lutzes and double sow cows.  While skating I look pretty dexterous.  I use top of the line gear, with the best bearings, built for speed and control.  Yet all of that, and I still sometimes fall while standing still on the sidelines.  All those skill points, but I'm still a clumsy lug (and a bruising defensemen <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).  I can't escape my low dex.As a GM, one thing I do at the start of any campaign is spend some time with the character sheets.  I look them over and see what the players spent their resources on, what seems to be important to them, and what impressions I can get from their sheets.  I am looking for lots of things - background notes to work into the game, player preferences (if a guy spends a lot of time and space on mundane equipment lists, he wants that to come up in game), and I look at the character with an eye to how others in the game world will perceive him.  Stats play a big roll in this.  Regardless of developed skills, clumsy is clumsy and socially awkward is socially awkward. A player has the right to play his character as he sees fit, but his attributes affect how he appears to others.  Someone may be a slick lawyer/businessman type, but if they are a snivelling, obsequious worm with a CHA 7 (perhaps James Spader in Wolf), it's going to have an affect on every interaction.Long and short of it, I think, is that roleplaying is always the great equalizer in "fixing" system shortcomings.</blockquote>

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