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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 8900229" data-attributes="member: 6901101">As many people point out contrarian examples, if beauty is added as ONE of the descriptions for charisma, examples of normal people being persuasive can still exist. It is a skill after. One can have a low charisma, and still be persuasive. They can still be intimidating. There are backgrounds, specializations, and feats for such things. And again, to reiterate, it could be one of the characteristics. Not the characteristic, but one. Because, in the end, beauty is an important part of social interaction. To have all these species that follow all sorts of cultural norms that we follow, but exclude this one, seems silly.And I will say this: I can be biased as the groups I have played with for twenty years have all been able to be good players, good DMs, intelligent, reasonable, and mature. So maybe that is skewing my thinking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scott Christian, post: 8900229, member: 6901101"] As many people point out contrarian examples, if beauty is added as ONE of the descriptions for charisma, examples of normal people being persuasive can still exist. It is a skill after. One can have a low charisma, and still be persuasive. They can still be intimidating. There are backgrounds, specializations, and feats for such things. And again, to reiterate, it could be [I]one[/I] of the characteristics. Not [I]the[/I] characteristic, but one. Because, in the end, beauty is an important part of social interaction. To have all these species that follow all sorts of cultural norms that we follow, but exclude this one, seems silly. And I will say this: I can be biased as the groups I have played with for twenty years have all been able to be good players, good DMs, intelligent, reasonable, and mature. So maybe that is skewing my thinking. [/QUOTE]

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