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<blockquote data-quote="The-Magic-Sword" data-source="post: 8532761" data-attributes="member: 6801252">Notably, DBZ is actually a really interesting example because its a fantasy world where 'level' actually trumps everything, rather than being an abstraction like we normally imagine it is in trditional conceptions of DND, the reason that second smaller guy is more intimidating (aside from the fact that he's creepy and uncanny valley most of the time) is that he literally outpaces the first guy to a ridiculous degree, the first guy realistically couldn't injure him even if the second guy just stood there T-Posing, and the first guy (as well as everyone else with fighting experience) can literally feel that.That first guy is weaker than the person the second guy is fighting in this clip:[MEDIA=youtube]pSnuAkBzA-Y[/MEDIA]What you can sort of take away from this, is that even your low charisma Barbarian is very intimidating but it depends who she's intimidating because someone as powerful or more powerful won't be as impressed with her power. Similarly even your high charisma character will struggle to intimidate someone they aren't much of a threat to, but will be able to put people off balance better by unnerving them, or coming across as ruthlessly cruel, or calling their enemies assesment of their power into question, or simply by making the consequences for losing seem so imposing that the enemy has trouble fighting confidently.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The-Magic-Sword, post: 8532761, member: 6801252"] Notably, DBZ is actually a really interesting example because its a fantasy world where 'level' actually trumps everything, rather than being an abstraction like we normally imagine it is in trditional conceptions of DND, the reason that second smaller guy is more intimidating (aside from the fact that he's creepy and uncanny valley most of the time) is that he literally outpaces the first guy to a ridiculous degree, the first guy realistically couldn't injure him even if the second guy just stood there T-Posing, and the first guy (as well as everyone else with fighting experience) can literally feel that. That first guy is weaker than the person the second guy is fighting in this clip: [MEDIA=youtube]pSnuAkBzA-Y[/MEDIA] What you can sort of take away from this, is that even your low charisma Barbarian is [I]very intimidating [/I]but it depends who she's intimidating because someone as powerful or more powerful won't be as impressed with her power. Similarly even your high charisma character will struggle to intimidate someone they aren't much of a threat to, but will be able to put people off balance better by unnerving them, or coming across as ruthlessly cruel, or calling their enemies assesment of their power into question, or simply by making the consequences for losing seem so imposing that the enemy has trouble fighting confidently. [/QUOTE]

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