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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2898147" data-attributes="member: 19675">There are all kinds of low wis archetypes out there.&nbsp; Add charisma and Intelligence...1)&nbsp; The Born Leader: He right, he KNOWS he's right, and he's persuasive enough to convince those around him that he's right...despite his history of forgetting itty bitty details about this or that that might convince others that Plan A needs a bit of revision (like needing an escape plan).For example, consider Dr. Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis.&nbsp; He knows more about Ancient tech than most other humans in the whole Stargate continuum...but he can't see his own blind spots and recognize when his intellect isn't up to the challenge.&nbsp; In one episode, his hubris almost got everyone killed when he thought he could solve a problem with a kind of energy source that the Ancients themselves could not control.2)&nbsp; The Ivory Tower Genius:&nbsp; Knows a lot about a lot on an academic level, but has little or no practical experience with the real world.&nbsp; Result: he may have a theory about what will happen when party A attacks location B with plan Z...and may well be surprised that plan Z (which was devised by military genius Shaun Tzoo 500 years ago) doesn't work as well with more modern weaponry.&nbsp; Think of a young nobleman with no combat experience, fresh from officer's training school, who is sent to the front lines in a decade's old war...3)&nbsp; Ladies Man.&nbsp; Woos them, wows them, then leaves them...even if they happen to command armies of undead.As for survivability, all of these guys have an element of a &quot;suit of Teflon armor&quot; around them.&nbsp; With enough charisma, you can convince people to take the fall for you, or throw themselves on a sword for you...even without asking.&nbsp; &quot;He is a great man, destined for great things- I'm not letting you take him down...&quot; may have been uttered in his defense multiple times.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 2898147, member: 19675"] There are all kinds of low wis archetypes out there. Add charisma and Intelligence... 1) The Born Leader: He right, he KNOWS he's right, and he's persuasive enough to convince those around him that he's right...despite his history of forgetting [I]itty bitty details [I]about this or that that might convince others that Plan A needs a bit of revision (like needing an escape plan). For example, consider Dr. Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis. He knows more about Ancient tech than most other humans in the whole Stargate continuum...but he can't see his own blind spots and recognize when his intellect isn't up to the challenge. In one episode, his hubris almost got everyone killed when he thought he could solve a problem with a kind of energy source that the Ancients themselves could not control. 2) The Ivory Tower Genius: Knows a lot about a lot on an academic level, but has little or no practical experience with the real world. Result: he may have a theory about what will happen when party A attacks location B with plan Z...and may well be surprised that plan Z (which was devised by military genius Shaun Tzoo 500 years ago) doesn't work as well with more modern weaponry. Think of a young nobleman with no combat experience, fresh from officer's training school, who is sent to the front lines in a decade's old war... 3) Ladies Man. Woos them, wows them, then leaves them...even if they happen to command armies of undead. As for survivability, all of these guys have an element of a "suit of Teflon armor" around them. With enough charisma, you can convince people to take the fall for you, or throw themselves on a sword for you...even without asking. "He is a great man, destined for great things- I'm not letting you take him down..." may have been uttered in his defense multiple times.[/I][/I] [/QUOTE]

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