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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 6941628" data-attributes="member: 97077">I think it is plausible that a leader of an adventuring group has a low charisma. It is up to the other player characters to decide whether that character is the leader of the group. The Charisma score of the potential leader may inform their decision on this score, but cannot force them to make any particular choice or delegitimize their decision once made. It comes into play only when the DM decides a player's action declaration is uncertain and must be resolved with a Charisma check.Personally, I think many DMs in my experience ask for too many Charisma checks in social interaction challenges which leads to the phenomenon of the player with the character with the highest Charisma doing all the talking while the rest of the group sits silently by. This is unfortunate in my view. If the "middle path" of handling the role of the dice is used (see the DMG for a discussion on this), then I have found everyone engages in social interaction challenges since they know some efforts achieve automatic success, bypassing an ability check that would otherwise likely result in failure.</blockquote>