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Message: <blockquote data-quote="payn" data-source="post: 9544286" data-attributes="member: 90374">Charisma is for sure used by leaders, but its not only intended for leadership itself. Its force of personality! How effectual a character is on those around them. Your level of presence is determined by charisma. Which is why a character can be absolutely beautiful from a conventional standpoint, but go largely unnoticed as a wallflower becasue they do not accentuate their beauty. Or, how a fugly scarred pirate captain keeps his sailors in line through pure intimidation and a stout command. Id have issues making the high cha character being the defacto leader. Morale seems more like a wisdom domain, and initiative would be better suited for intelligence for a group. Now, bolstering morale, or leading a group for initiative maybe. I dont like the idea of locking it down to a specific ability.It seems, they wanted to open up all ability attributes in 5E. Though, the completely lackluster skill system leaves it too open to interpretation to the point the stats have no general meaning amongst players. For some thats a boon becasue they thrive in rulings over rules play, but other want more guidance. Which is why I wish there was a skill module to expand 5E more in this area.I'd rather role play the situation than randomly roll a die to find out what a character thinks. Seducing something is contextual and shouldn't be something you can just declare and roll a D20 to make happen. YMMV.Thats how its been intended to work for some time. Again, I think that there is no direct series of skills to highlight these actions, players are often at a loss of what is capable. Also, it really depends on GMs. Some may look at the skill chart and ask, "do you have X?" and thats the end of it. Others might say, "great roll a Str check for me..." So, I think how the game works is soemthing players and really GMs ought to negotiate at the beginning and during play.I'd say adventure modules that illustrate how a GM can/should make all attributes more useful in social situations would be more helpful then adding rules. YMMV.</blockquote>

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