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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1428998" data-attributes="member: 158">The funny thing, as I always tell my wife, is that you shouldn't be afraid of the big, strong-looking, ugly guys - it's always those skinny, wiry, dead-eyed mother<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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /> you need to fear. When you see someone who has "soulless" eyes, you'll know what I'm talking about.Big strong guys usually mean what they say - and can often be talked down out of violence. (Did that a few times as a high-school kid.) Guys who look like (as an example) the rapper Snoop Dogg to me look like guys who you don't KNOW what they're going to do. The meanest fight as a kid I ever saw was two high school students and two teachers whom it took to subdue a small 120-pound student who was VIOLENTLY angry. (To this day, I don't know if it was drugs, or just sheer anger, but MY GOD that was nasty.)To put in in D&D terms, force of personality often flies in the face of burly looks. A guy can look burly (18 STR and 16 CON) but have a voice like Mike Tyson and the personality of the meek little woman from Police Academy. Similarly, a Halfling could be a stick (STR 5, CON 6) but have the forceful impression and dead-eyes of Hannibal Lecter, (CHA 20), and know exactly what to say to get someone to do his will.I've never run into someone who had both a big build AND the "dead-eyes" - but I pray I never do.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></blockquote>

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