POLL: Is how you Roleplay influenced by your character’s mental stats?

[JohnSnow]

Prompted by another thread, I thought it would be interesting to take the temperature of the community on this one. Because I’m willing to bet there’s variation.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Where's the poll?

 

[JohnSnow]

Where's the poll?

grumble

Typed it up and everything, and then it didn’t post. Just a sec.

 

[Hriston]

I voted for your fourth option because I prefer the decisions I make for my character (my roleplaying) to be an input to the fiction which comes before any mechanical resolution. If I'm being strategic about it and the situation allows for it, I might avoid stating actions that would rely on my weaker scores, in case a check is called for.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not as often as they should be. My characters tend to try to outsmart and, when that fails, out-talk the enemies, whenever they can, even when their INT and CHA stats aren't what they should be.

I'm working on it, though, whenever I get a break from Forever DM.

 

[dragoner]

Role playing someone of lower intelligence would be borderline mocking, so I avoid that, and play them as normal.

 

[JohnSnow]

As a point of interest, my fiancée, who didn’t vote in this poll, said that she tends to play characters much like herself, and finds it hard to do otherwise, so she specifically makes sure her character’s mental stats (at least nominally) reflect that.

In other words, since she’s pretty smart herself, she refuses to put a low score in a character’s INT stat, because “it feels like cheating.”

 

[Yora]

I assign the stats according to how I imagine the character to be.

 

[RuinousPowers]

I find low stats lead to "It's just what my character would do" moments, in the bad sense.

 

[Scribe]

My son would refuse to dump his Int, even when it would benefit him, for YEARS because he refused to accept he was dumb.

He grew out of it.