What is a character with a 6 INT, 6 CHA, and 8 WIS like?
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Celebrim
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Very little fun to play.
Seriously, it can be a blast to play a 6 INT character.
It can be a blast to play a 6 WIS character.
It can be a blast to play a 6 CHR character.
But, all three makes for a pretty pathetic RP experience for both the player and the DM - because the correct way to play this character is as someone who is ultimately really pathetic. It would take an exceptional player to make even a character with two subpar mental abilities interesting.
Seriously, and here I'm being generous, think someone like Dudley from the Harry Potter books - and thats probably rather underestimating Dudley. The two Slytherin toadies that follow around Harry's rival - that's probably the sort of character we are talking about. Or perhaps, Biff from the 'Back to the Future' movies - if we overlook that Biff appeared to have some latent degree of cunning and ruthlessness that might equat to WIS. So probably we should stoop lower than that - one of Biff's flunkies.
Jar Jar Binks.
Outside of children's books and other juvenile tales of good and evil, it probably is pretty hard to find literary characters with 6,8,6 mental skills because even writers find them pretty boring to write about. Typically, you have simple but 'wise' and good hearted characters like Forrest Gump or Quasimodo. Or you have, bright but dim and socially inept 'nerds'. Or you have, socially magnetic but clueless and foolish people whom the nerdy hero has to overcome. Or you have salt of the earth types lacking intelligence or cunning, but well adjusted to the simple society they live in and well liked within it - but characters like this are generally only used as a 'mob' or 'chorus' and stay in the background. Seldom do you have a character lacking all cunning, all grace, and all wit whom a writer will devote any attention to or all.
Therefore, you have at best a character that can be one or more of the other characters flunkies but who probably isn't very well liked even by the rest of the party.
Seriously, it can be a blast to play a 6 INT character.
It can be a blast to play a 6 WIS character.
It can be a blast to play a 6 CHR character.
But, all three makes for a pretty pathetic RP experience for both the player and the DM - because the correct way to play this character is as someone who is ultimately really pathetic. It would take an exceptional player to make even a character with two subpar mental abilities interesting.
Seriously, and here I'm being generous, think someone like Dudley from the Harry Potter books - and thats probably rather underestimating Dudley. The two Slytherin toadies that follow around Harry's rival - that's probably the sort of character we are talking about. Or perhaps, Biff from the 'Back to the Future' movies - if we overlook that Biff appeared to have some latent degree of cunning and ruthlessness that might equat to WIS. So probably we should stoop lower than that - one of Biff's flunkies.
Jar Jar Binks.
Outside of children's books and other juvenile tales of good and evil, it probably is pretty hard to find literary characters with 6,8,6 mental skills because even writers find them pretty boring to write about. Typically, you have simple but 'wise' and good hearted characters like Forrest Gump or Quasimodo. Or you have, bright but dim and socially inept 'nerds'. Or you have, socially magnetic but clueless and foolish people whom the nerdy hero has to overcome. Or you have salt of the earth types lacking intelligence or cunning, but well adjusted to the simple society they live in and well liked within it - but characters like this are generally only used as a 'mob' or 'chorus' and stay in the background. Seldom do you have a character lacking all cunning, all grace, and all wit whom a writer will devote any attention to or all.
Therefore, you have at best a character that can be one or more of the other characters flunkies but who probably isn't very well liked even by the rest of the party.
Blood Jester
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MrZoink said:
Ooooohhh! Good example.
Thanks everyone for your input. It seems like at best the character would be sort of an unlikable dullard, and at worst some kind of thug psycho. Either way, I don't think that kind of character would be good in a party situation! After reading this advice and thinking it over, I talked with my friend who was planning on playing that character and he decided to change his stats to something a bit more normal. It wasn't easy because he didn't really agree with my assessment of what those low stats mean, but he decided to change anyway.
Thanks again!
-Jixan
Thanks again!
-Jixan
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Maitre Du Donjon
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Every one seems to be portraying the character as "evil" (or at least "thuggish").
He could be played as an over-bearing, over-affectious battle lover that never received a proper education. He annoys people because he's hugging them all the time, slapping them on the back too hard, etc.
Maitre D
He could be played as an over-bearing, over-affectious battle lover that never received a proper education. He annoys people because he's hugging them all the time, slapping them on the back too hard, etc.
Maitre D
Jixan said:
I don't think it is a good idea if your friend WANT to play his pg.
Imagine the pg as a disabled big boy. He isn't stupid.. he is only... retarded. He have the brain of a 6 year old children, and all the world is confused from good and bad, from right and wrong and so on. It is not a bad person, but he have fear of people. In his life, other people had rejected him. The only thing he can do was work hard and hard. A big dude, useful only for pull a plow or for use an hammer on a forge.
He don't understand why people is so complicate. World is a good place and.. ok.. if you see for enough time the sky you can see all type of animals in the clouds, yes? He know that he must always ask with polite way when he is going to do something.
He really is too big and too strong for his brain. He fear to make sorrow at everything. When he walk, he control that no ants are around his feets. He hate ants.
He hate also orcs. They are bad creatures, they have killed his brother john and his sister mary and.. yes! his loved dog Pux. They had killed Pux! He hate orcs, definitely.
A perfect barbarian, indeed. I think i can have a lot of fun playing a typo as this, if the group also make a good rpg. A barbarian that don't like attack (unless orcs, obviusly) others.
" Ehy Dumpy it is your turn, go and Kill them!"
"Ehr.. ki..ll?" (round 1 passed)
"Argh Dumpy! Yes! that 7 heads Hydra. HE is BAD! HE is Friend of Orcs! HE HATE DOGS!"
"Orcs?!? DOGS?!?!?" (berserker mode, attack mode, roll roll roll roll...)"... and you have killed my Pux! BAD HYDRA.." (roll roll roll roll)
"now stop Dumpy! He is dead!"
(roll roll roll) "Look at here Dumpy! A 7th dot ladybug!" (stop roll) "where? Oh...."
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