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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5007642" data-attributes="member: 56189">Charisma comes in all shapes, sizes and flavours.I roleplay an 8 Charisma Avenger who is pretty jovial and well-meaning. It's just that he always manages to say the wrong thing and usually manages to say it at the wrong time. It's not even that he's a social retard so much as it is, that he tends to speak before thinking.Despite this, he's friendly enough and tries to do the right thing by his comrades, he just fails more often than not.On the flip-side I have a 20 Charisma Paladin who is all sweetness, light and politeness, and yet gets on people's nerves because of her rigid adherence to moral values and ethics and the laws of the land (ie. lawful stupid).I also have a 20 Charisma Warlock who generally keeps quiet. However, when he does speak, although his words may be polite, every syllable drips menace and the promise of dark, writhing agony should you cross him.Then there's my swordmage with an 8 Charisma who was a genasi slave to eladrin elementalists overlords that ruled a portion of Akunul before it was Akunul. Kept in stasis with the rest of his kin as a private army, the magical bonds of his prison recently broke, setting him free into the world. But without a master, he doesn't understand the world or how to live in it. Despite being exceptionally intelligent (20), I roleplay him as a bit slow. He always refers to the most charismatic person in the party as "Master", and does almost anything they say, because he grew up and was trained to think like that.In other words, he doesn't have his own personality and that's something which I would develop through roleplaying over the course of the character's life.So... there's a lot of ways you can roleplay charisma. A haughty, in your face, pompous wind-bag elf could have a 20 Charisma because when it comes right down to it, his demeanour really is commanding and his presence is expectation of being listened to is hard to deny. Or he could be an 8 charisma elf with the same detractions, only with him it's all just hot-air and no substance and nobody listens to him because he just can't carry himself like the 20 Charisma guy does.</blockquote>

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