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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2750237" data-attributes="member: 17296">Yes. You are just old-fashioned that way. Not that I'm saying that's bad, mind you. More I'm saying the game is bad for not better supporting it! I've been known to put a high (ish) score in Charisma just because I wanted the character to be, well, charismatic. It's fun, it's role-play... and unfortunately by RAW it's also heavily punished. As I've learned on more than one occasion, while you're less likely to get killed for failing to talk someone into something ... as Henry stated, sometimes you will get killed for being a charismatic person instead of a strong one, or dexterous one, or a "healthy" (Con score) one. Or even instead of an intelligent one or perceptive (wisdom) one. It's true that charisma skills suffer the same from skill points as any other ability. But OTHER abilities do other things than minorly help out related skills. Every single class can carry more and hit harder/more often in melee for having a high strength stat. Every class gets hit less often and makes more saves and is better at hitting things at range with a high dex. Every class gets more HP's and better saves from a high Con. No class fails to get more skill points from having a high intelligence. All classes at the very least get better will saves from a high wisdom score. What do you get from a high charisma score? A good feeling in your role-playing heart and killed off at an early level because you put your 10 in Con for "role-playing" reasons instead of putting that 14 there, the 14 you used for Charisma. (Or at least that's what happened to me last time I had a high charisma because it fit the character better to do so.)</blockquote>

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