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How would you roleplay this character? A charismatic but stupid, small, monsterous songsmith.
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<blockquote data-quote="kagayaku" data-source="post: 7369625" data-attributes="member: 6876021"><p>This is a goblin bard for D&D 5e but I figure this applies to any edition or game, hence posting in the general forum. I'm just looking for ideas and tales of other people's characters really, but also just insight into the way other people treat the mental stats in general.</p><p></p><p>His Intelligence and Wisdom scores are both 8 (where 10 is 'normal human') so I imagine he's noticeably a bit dim; gullible, struggles with arithmetic, doesn't really plan ahead, fails to notice fairly obvious things, etc. Because he's of a monstrous race there's a limit to how good looking he can be, but maybe he's got a bit of a cheeky grin and big, round eyes. Or maybe he's ugly as anything but still charming.</p><p></p><p>I was thinking I could make him endearingly charismatic rather than impressively charismatic. Kind of like a bulldog that everybody loves, even though he's ugly, non-lingual, and won't stop eating things that reliably make him sick. He could be naive, trusting, outgoing, generally well meaning, and mischievous but far less cunning than he thinks is.</p><p></p><p>As for the bard part. What kind of songs would you give a stupid, but charismatic character to sing. Part of the appeal of playing a bard for me is rewording snippets of songs the group likes (or hates <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />) but maybe this guy's songs would be more like football chants, or all the songs would just have awful lyrics.</p><p></p><p>If you've played a dumb but charismatic bard (or any character) that was particularly good fun before, then I'd love to hear about it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kagayaku, post: 7369625, member: 6876021"] This is a goblin bard for D&D 5e but I figure this applies to any edition or game, hence posting in the general forum. I'm just looking for ideas and tales of other people's characters really, but also just insight into the way other people treat the mental stats in general. His Intelligence and Wisdom scores are both 8 (where 10 is 'normal human') so I imagine he's noticeably a bit dim; gullible, struggles with arithmetic, doesn't really plan ahead, fails to notice fairly obvious things, etc. Because he's of a monstrous race there's a limit to how good looking he can be, but maybe he's got a bit of a cheeky grin and big, round eyes. Or maybe he's ugly as anything but still charming. I was thinking I could make him endearingly charismatic rather than impressively charismatic. Kind of like a bulldog that everybody loves, even though he's ugly, non-lingual, and won't stop eating things that reliably make him sick. He could be naive, trusting, outgoing, generally well meaning, and mischievous but far less cunning than he thinks is. As for the bard part. What kind of songs would you give a stupid, but charismatic character to sing. Part of the appeal of playing a bard for me is rewording snippets of songs the group likes (or hates :lol:) but maybe this guy's songs would be more like football chants, or all the songs would just have awful lyrics. If you've played a dumb but charismatic bard (or any character) that was particularly good fun before, then I'd love to hear about it! [/QUOTE]
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