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<blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2750294" data-attributes="member: 24969">It depends a great deal on what the character does. The low Cha character can always just decide to shut up, sit in the back, and let the face man talk for the party. Then they are &quot;that guy&quot; in the back that nobody knows and those who meet just sort of decide never to talk to them again. Then there are the ones who like to make it evident that they have a low charisma. They get into trouble, insist on talking (or insulting) people, and can get the party kicked out of an otherwise friendly spot. That's the thing with adventuring parties, they assume the Cha of whoever does the most talking for the group. One example of a low Cha hero I can remember happened after the adventuring group met a noble on the road and was camping with him. He told his life story and his bard sang his praises and then he asked for the party to tell theirs. The DM was offering RP XP for telling a good story and impressing the noble and each character's story got greater and greater and they embelished their accomplishments and praised themselves as was socially expected. Everybody was havign a great time in and out of character as the stories got bigger and more flowery. Finally, everybody except for the low Cha thief (1E) had told their story and the noble asked the theif &quot;What do you do?&quot; which was an interesing case since you you had to disguise what you did because it was socially unacceptable to say you were a thief. He just looked up and said &quot;I kill evil priests.&quot; and went back to cooking his dinner on the fire. The backstory was that his family had been killed by an evil preist and he would go to any lengths to get a backstab on one. This was a pretty ballsy thing to say because in the campaign, getting reputation for hunting down evil priests was a sure way for them to come looking for you. It pretty much killed the evening and everybody went to bed and the noble got up the next night and left with a brief goodbye and probably never mentioned us to anybody ever again (unless he informed an evil priest about us).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="painandgreed, post: 2750294, member: 24969"] It depends a great deal on what the character does. The low Cha character can always just decide to shut up, sit in the back, and let the face man talk for the party. Then they are "that guy" in the back that nobody knows and those who meet just sort of decide never to talk to them again. Then there are the ones who like to make it evident that they have a low charisma. They get into trouble, insist on talking (or insulting) people, and can get the party kicked out of an otherwise friendly spot. That's the thing with adventuring parties, they assume the Cha of whoever does the most talking for the group. One example of a low Cha hero I can remember happened after the adventuring group met a noble on the road and was camping with him. He told his life story and his bard sang his praises and then he asked for the party to tell theirs. The DM was offering RP XP for telling a good story and impressing the noble and each character's story got greater and greater and they embelished their accomplishments and praised themselves as was socially expected. Everybody was havign a great time in and out of character as the stories got bigger and more flowery. Finally, everybody except for the low Cha thief (1E) had told their story and the noble asked the theif "What do you do?" which was an interesing case since you you had to disguise what you did because it was socially unacceptable to say you were a thief. He just looked up and said "I kill evil priests." and went back to cooking his dinner on the fire. The backstory was that his family had been killed by an evil preist and he would go to any lengths to get a backstab on one. This was a pretty ballsy thing to say because in the campaign, getting reputation for hunting down evil priests was a sure way for them to come looking for you. It pretty much killed the evening and everybody went to bed and the noble got up the next night and left with a brief goodbye and probably never mentioned us to anybody ever again (unless he informed an evil priest about us). [/QUOTE]

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