Roleplaying a four Charisma...

[Desdichado]

4 is low, but it's not that low. I think it'd be fun to be a no-name character, but it's not like the character would literally have no sense of self.

Another idea is simply to make him the equivalent of your local cat-piss man gamer nerd stereotype, except instead of being a gamer nerd he's a military nerd or something like that. Y'know, talks a bit too loud and too long about stuff nobody else wants to hear, can't take a hint that he should shut up and leave you alone, etc.

 

[Torm]

For some reason, when I think about this Warforged character, I think of Marvin the Paranoid Android. Do you think Marvin had a Cha of 4?

No. Marvin was very Charismatic, up to and including {WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE BOOKS AND/OR SEEN THE UPCOMING MOVIE} causing the police ship to commit suicide on Magrathea, his effect on the Frogstar Scout Class D Battle Robot, his stint as an almost god-like leader for the people in the past of Squashnella Zeta (sp?) before his discussion with a matress in the swamp some millions of years later, causing a change in attitude in ALL of the Robots of Krikkit, and his ability to make everyone around him feel his depression. Except Zaphod, who was just really oblivious and/or uncaring. (low Wisdom, bad Sense Motive)

 

[Desdichado]

D'oh! What book are you talking about? I thought Marvin the Paranoid Android was just a character in a Dr. Demento song from the 80s. I thought it odd that you were posting spoiler warnings for it...

 

[Torm]

Another idea is simply to make him the equivalent of your local cat-piss man gamer nerd stereotype, except instead of being a gamer nerd he's a military nerd or something like that. Y'know, talks a bit too loud and too long about stuff nobody else wants to hear, can't take a hint that he should shut up and leave you alone, etc.

Except - those people can be kind of intimidating sometimes - a Cha based skill.

I think I like the nobody-notices approach that has been suggested best. It accounts for a lack of diplomacy AND intimidation, and with a Warforged, you can use the excuse that he is still in the charge of someone else in the party to explain why he didn't have to be at least charming enough for the rest of the party to want him to join with them when they all met in that tavern.

 

[Kemrain]

Josh, the Increasingly Misnamed Hitchiker's Trilogy.

- Kemrain the Totally Ashamed of Knowing That.

 

[Torm]

D'oh! What book are you talking about? I thought Marvin the Paranoid Android was just a character in a Dr. Demento song from the 80s. I thought it odd that you were posting spoiler warnings for it...

A book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until recently, never seen or heard of by any Earthman.

Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.

In fact, it is probably the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor - of which no Earthman had ever heard either.

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.

First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words "Don't Panic" inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

(An excerpt from the beginning of the book, by Douglas Adams - soon to be a major motion picture. Can't tell I'm a fan, can you? )

 

[Desdichado]

Odd, I checked that book out (audio) from my library a few years ago and listened to it while commuting back and forth to work (didn't take long) but I have no memory of that character.

That song from Dr. Demento, on the other hand... that rocks.

 

[Kemrain]

Can't tell I'm a fan, can you? )

What on earth would give us that impression?

- Kemrain the Hoping Torm Didn't Type that from Memory.

 

[Torm]

Hoping Torm Didn't Type that from Memory.

No, I looked it up at Google to get the quote - I could have come VERY close, but I wanted to be as true to the author as possible. And don't EVER be ashamed to be the sort of hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.

 

[Tonguez]

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.

Wow something just struck me - is Wikipedia the earth version of the Hitchhikers Guide? Is it (and Google) become the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom