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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5744548" data-attributes="member: 40166">Of all the mental attributes, Charisma is the easiest to handle. Politeness is complex; even armed with a universal translator, none of us could walk before a nobleman in Faerun, Golarion, or medieval France and come across as anything but an ignorant foreigner at best. The correct titles and how to phrase requests are just two of the issues that can trip up the foreigner."My lord, we would be happy to assist you in this quest." could in real life be more offensive then "Dude, we will follow to the end of the earth." The second may not win you points for decorum, but the second could be taken as an insult for calling him "my lord" instead of the appropriate, and higher rank, "your grace" and for using "we" and "you" in a way that put the two of you on the same level.Not to mention that politeness is not just words. Whether you shake hands (and with whom), whether you look people in the eye, and how close you stand are all issues that mess people up cross-culturally in the real world. Not to mention that a fighter whose tunic is stained equal parts orc blood and lunch isn't going to get a good reception no matter what he says.In game? If a Charisma 4 character says "My lord, we would be happy to assist you in this quest", then both the exact wording in translation and the intonation, combined with the fact he tried to shake hands with people he had no business touching, makes people respond badly. If a Charisma 18 character says the same thing, he did the right things, used the right title and the right general phrasing to make people respond well.</blockquote>

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