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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 965667" data-attributes="member: 2785">Tough character to pull off. I play a character with a 6 Int and a 7 Cha, but he's got a 16 Wis so I am able to portray him as full of common sense, but lacking social graces or book knowledge. If I didn't have the high Wis to lean on, I'd play him as a cypher - an utterly forgettable person, and one whose very presence may be distasteful to more mentally capable people around him. Breaking it down:6 Int means he's not well learned, nor possesses the mental faculties to retain much knowledge. So one way to RP him would be as unable to remember much, slow to make decisions, and lacking book knowledge.8 Wis means he lacks common sense, and possibly when combined with the other low stats a sense of self-preservation. He could be foolhardy or overly superstitious. He could be stubborn, a person you'd find nearly impossible to persuade because of his own root beliefs. A person with an 8 Wis could be a sympathetic figure, or a frustratingly bullheaded one.6 Cha means the character lacks some accepted social graces as well as force of personality. He's not necessarily physically unattractive, but his personality is one that others will soon forget or be loathe to interact with. He could be a loudmouth giving orders no one follows, or a total Poindexter unable to convince a barkeep to sell him a drink. Either path is interesting, but from a meta-game standpoint, unless you go the Poindexter route you'll quickly aggrivate the other players.Taken as a whole, this is a person that could be possibly worthy of pity, derision, dismissal, or even loathing. If the person is good he's the simple sod who wants what's best but lack the mental package to know how to make good choices; he'd make a good tag-along or stalwart-but-frustratingly-inept friend. If neutral, I suspect this person would be a coward because he lacks the mental power to make complex moral or ethical decisions; a mentally stunted neutral person just wants to be left alone. If evil, he's probably someone's lacky and most certainly a cruel thug.A difficult character to portray.</blockquote>

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