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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 5734956" data-attributes="member: 2642">I only read the OP and the first few and last few posts, so sorry if this has already been discussed.The OP says of our hero: "One player is likable, charming, a joy to be around. He roleplays his character superbly. Everybody likes him. The GM likes him."In my experience, this combination, specifically the conjunction of the bolded part on the one hand and everything else on the other, rarely occurs.Many people in our hobby, including some otherwise very smart folks who really should know better, conflate "role-playing" with "acting". My experience with players who have a high real-life CHA, or at least a significantly more forceful personality than the DM (which seems to do most of the things CHA does in-game), is that they will often do a magnificent job of acting... in the role of a character who differs significantly from the one written down on their character sheet. In particular, the character they play invariably has a much higher CHA than the one they're supposed to be playing.These people are doing plenty of acting, but no role-playing whatsoever, and they are a pox on the hobby.</blockquote>