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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. NRG" data-source="post: 683709" data-attributes="member: 7697">Playing an animalistic druid with a 6 int and a 6 charisma was one of the greatest challenges of my roleplaying career.  It can be fun to break out of the mold and try to do something completely atypical.  That said, it can also be a big pain in the butt.  The particular case in point featured a very strict by-the-book stat rolling method, which (in point buy terms) resulted in a 52-point character as well as my 24-point character in the same party... but I digress.  The fourth or fifth time the druid, played as a foul-tempered SOB, interrupted the 52-point paladin to rub his polar bear buttocks against the NPC the party was trying to impress, things sort of came to a head. {On a tangent}, regarding Aspergers syndrome, by no means despair of the notion that the sufferer can lead a relatively normal and productive life.  I daily interact with a brilliant computer programmer who undoubtedly suffers from undiagnosed Asperger's (in my informed, but unprofessional opinion).  He can pull off Rainman-like feats of mathematical/programming genius, while still unable to deal with  personal interactions on the level of going grocery shopping.  Provided the right support structure is there, this kind of person can be highly productive -- and be rewarded accordingly.  {End tangent.}The player of bard in question seems, at first glance, to be suffering from a common malady -- the desire to do the totally un-optimal thing just to break the mold.  It's like playing a barbarian with all his physical stat's under 10.  The player is the issue here more than the character.  Is the player bored, or what?  Does the player want this desperately to be different?  I have found that people who play demonstrably sub-par combinations of race/class/stats are either rebelling against the notion of min-maxing, or feel they have "done it all before" in terms of playing effective characters...  NRG</blockquote>

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