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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2897125" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>I decided one day to postulate what a character with 18 Int, 18 Cha, and 1 Wis would be like.&nbsp; This character your player made would be less extreme, but could share some of the characteristics.&nbsp; She is a genius who can answer academic questions and logic puzzles almost immediately.&nbsp; She has a powerful personality and strong opinions, and people find themselves agreeing with her and listening to what she has to say.&nbsp; However, she is incrediby unobservant and misses out on body language and innuendo.&nbsp; In fact, though she can always solve for the right answer in theoretical questions, in practise, she is so overwhelmed with stimuli, many of which are worthless but seem interesting to her advanced intellect, that she can't pick out the useful ones, as she could in a hypothetical situation with only a few elements involved.&nbsp; As such, she creates extremely simple-minded a priori heuristics to help her come to real-world solutions without being paralysed by the amount of information.&nbsp; For example, she has trouble deciding who to trust and who to believe, in other words, who is 'good' and who is 'bad'.&nbsp; Eventually, she grasps onto the heuristic that pretty things are good until proven otherwise by their actions and that ugly things are bad until proven otherwise by their actions.&nbsp; This actually works in the majority of cases and allows her to make snap decisions, although every so often, it causes her to make a big mistake.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 2897125, member: 29014"] I decided one day to postulate what a character with 18 Int, 18 Cha, and 1 Wis would be like. This character your player made would be less extreme, but could share some of the characteristics. She is a genius who can answer academic questions and logic puzzles almost immediately. She has a powerful personality and strong opinions, and people find themselves agreeing with her and listening to what she has to say. However, she is incrediby unobservant and misses out on body language and innuendo. In fact, though she can always solve for the right answer in theoretical questions, in practise, she is so overwhelmed with stimuli, many of which are worthless but seem interesting to her advanced intellect, that she can't pick out the useful ones, as she could in a hypothetical situation with only a few elements involved. As such, she creates extremely simple-minded a priori heuristics to help her come to real-world solutions without being paralysed by the amount of information. For example, she has trouble deciding who to trust and who to believe, in other words, who is 'good' and who is 'bad'. Eventually, she grasps onto the heuristic that pretty things are good until proven otherwise by their actions and that ugly things are bad until proven otherwise by their actions. This actually works in the majority of cases and allows her to make snap decisions, although every so often, it causes her to make a big mistake. [/QUOTE]

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