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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1773039" data-attributes="member: 177">Here's the thing, Charisma isn't about how easy you are to get along with.&nbsp; It's about force of personality.&nbsp; There are multiple ways to motivate people to agree with you or do what you want.&nbsp; A person with high charisma is good at one or more of the methods.Being nice and pleasant is one way to do the trick.&nbsp; But so is humiliation.&nbsp; So is the ability to instill fear.&nbsp; All a high charisma says is that people will listen to you, and they will tend to do what you want.&nbsp; But there are many ways to skin the cat.It is possible that different people have different concepts of the character.&nbsp; To dispel that, you need to get on the same page about the stats and how they operate.&nbsp; I don't have context, but being a &quot;bitch to deal with&quot; has multiple meanings.&nbsp; It can mean that you are rude and nasty.&nbsp; It can also mean that you simply make life difficult by not going along with everyone else, even if you are polite about it.&nbsp; I don't know for sure what they meant.&nbsp; You want to make sure that you were reacting to the right meaning.Your DM would be wrong to dock your Charisma score.&nbsp; He has two possibilities - he can assign a circumstance penalty due to your inappropriate delivery, or he can decide that due to your charisma score, people still do what you want, because they figure you'll be a holy terror if they don't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 1773039, member: 177"] Here's the thing, Charisma isn't about how easy you are to get along with. It's about force of personality. There are multiple ways to motivate people to agree with you or do what you want. A person with high charisma is good at one or more of the methods. Being nice and pleasant is one way to do the trick. But so is humiliation. So is the ability to instill fear. All a high charisma says is that people [i]will[/i] listen to you, and they will tend to do what you want. But there are many ways to skin the cat. It is possible that different people have different concepts of the character. To dispel that, you need to get on the same page about the stats and how they operate. I don't have context, but being a "bitch to deal with" has multiple meanings. It can mean that you are rude and nasty. It can also mean that you simply make life difficult by not going along with everyone else, even if you are polite about it. I don't know for sure what they meant. You want to make sure that you were reacting to the right meaning. Your DM would be wrong to dock your Charisma score. He has two possibilities - he can assign a circumstance penalty due to your inappropriate delivery, or he can decide that due to your charisma score, people still do what you want, because they figure you'll be a holy terror if they don't. [/QUOTE]

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