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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 969083" data-attributes="member: 3929">Jixan: I imagine this PC to be the hulking, dexterous half-orc barbarian? Some things you might want to be aware of as this is your first time DMing:If the player is a wiz at battlefield tactics, he is not playing his Int, no matter what he says. It might only take instincts to fight well alone, but to coordinate your actions with others takes practice, intelligence, and mental sophistication. An Int 6 PC will have none of these. Really, he should be able to do nothing more in a battle than run at the first baddie he sees, attack, kill, and move on to the next one. No maneuvering to flank or taking 5-foot-steps to avoid comprimising situations.If the player concentrates for long periods of time, ie, he actually stays alert when it's his turn to take watch, he isn't playing his Wis. Tricked fairly easily, gullible, and a host of other things that have already been said. This guy looks gullible up in the dictionary because someone said it wasn't there. Maybe not twice, but at least once.If the player ever has anything compelling to say, ignore it. Charisma is force of personality much more so than anything else. -Not talking much in role-play doesn't do it: if Al Pacino doesn't talk much, do you cease to notice his prescence in the room? -Being ugly doesn't do it: Cyrano DeBergiac (sp?)  was ugly but a poetic genius; do you not listen to his verse because he has a big nose? -Being shy won't do as an excuse either; one can be introverted and have a wonderful force of personality: my father hates cocktail parties and social functions (would rather read a book), but when the man speaks, you listen!People are going to dismiss this person the first time he shakes hands and looks at his feet while doing it. He can't even be a brash barbarian: bragadaccio requires CHA! If you end up with something other than a gullible, unfunny, dimwitted, anti-charming barbarian who is uninteresting to watch in combat (run up to, hack, next...), then your player is probably putting one over on you. The problem comes when you want the player to put one over on you because the character is turning out to be so bloody uninteresting. I'd say make him redo this. An 18 in anything with a 22 point buy is going to cost a whole lot; unbalances for the character, as well as role-playing adjudication and party cohesiveness problems.Otherwise, good luck DMing!</blockquote>

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