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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8901928" data-attributes="member: 20564">Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.&nbsp; One may find a dragon beautiful, another not.&nbsp; Yet the dragon has the same charisma to both.I have had high Charisma characters who were imposing, commanding, had presence, but weren't beautiful.&nbsp; My nest example of this was years ago seeing on Broadway a show of Sir Patrick Stewart doing a reading of Dicken's A Christmas Carol.&nbsp; It's him, not in costume, with a simple table, chair, and stool.&nbsp; Just him.&nbsp; He got up there and started to do the reading.No one in the whole place even coughed during either act.He was magnetic.&nbsp; He had such presence and gravatas.&nbsp; It was astounding.&nbsp; He had Charisma oozing out of his ears.But he's not beautiful of visage.&nbsp; Put a picture of him alongside more conventionally beautiful people and show them to someoen who hasn't seen him and is just basing on that picture and he won't get rated above the others.I also know people who are very fair of face and form but just damned annoying to deal with.&nbsp; They don't have Charisma, even though they have beauty.Charisma can contain beauty, but does not need to.&nbsp; And vice versa.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8901928, member: 20564"] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One may find a dragon beautiful, another not. Yet the dragon has the same charisma to both. I have had high Charisma characters who were imposing, commanding, had presence, but weren't beautiful. My nest example of this was years ago seeing on Broadway a show of Sir Patrick Stewart doing a reading of Dicken's A Christmas Carol. It's him, not in costume, with a simple table, chair, and stool. Just him. He got up there and started to do the reading. No one in the whole place even coughed during either act. He was magnetic. He had such presence and gravatas. It was astounding. He had Charisma oozing out of his ears. But he's not beautiful of visage. Put a picture of him alongside more conventionally beautiful people and show them to someoen who hasn't seen him and is just basing on that picture and he won't get rated above the others. I also know people who are very fair of face and form but just damned annoying to deal with. They don't have Charisma, even though they have beauty. Charisma can contain beauty, but does not need to. And vice versa. [/QUOTE]

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