Nita the Shifter Monk: High WIS, low INT and low CHA [Archive] - Wizards Community

Nita the Shifter Monk: High WIS, low INT and low CHA [Archive] - Wizards Community

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jtptan
12-05-06, 10:37 PM Nita has low INT and CHA (6 each) but high WIS (16). She's been in an abbey her entire life training in various ways (meditation through menaial labour through formal fighting training). The abbey is in a city that sees a lot of refugees from a war their kingdom is losing. The monks spend most of their time in the abbey, but take turns managing a sort of soup kitchen for the unfortunate. Nita herself is LN.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to play her character. She's a shifter surrounded by humans, so she's got to feel like some sort of outcast. I'd like to have her on a quest for inner perfection but I don't know if she's intelligent enough for it. I'm on the point-buy system so I may end up putting points into INT, I suppose.

If anybody has some suggestions for playing Nita, I'd be very thankful.
TheAnthroDM
12-06-06, 01:09 AM Dream-Sight.
AJ_Impy
12-06-06, 05:54 AM Very cryptic insights. Be intuitive rather than intellectual. You are simple, but that doesn't mean stupid. Cut through deceit and duplicity through common sense and straightforward understanding: do not be witty, sarcastic, erudite or debonair. A quest for inner perfection is well within her grasp: "I want to be the best I can". Short, uncomplicated vocabulary, but what is there is used effectively. Not prettily or cleverly, but her words should ring true.

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jtptan 12-05-06, 10:37 PM	Nita has low INT and CHA (6 each) but high WIS (16). She's been in an abbey her entire life training in various ways (meditation through menaial labour through formal fighting training). The abbey is in a city that sees a lot of refugees from a war their kingdom is losing. The monks spend most of their time in the abbey, but take turns managing a sort of soup kitchen for the unfortunate. Nita herself is LN. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to play her character. She's a shifter surrounded by humans, so she's got to feel like some sort of outcast. I'd like to have her on a quest for inner perfection but I don't know if she's intelligent enough for it. I'm on the point-buy system so I may end up putting points into INT, I suppose. If anybody has some suggestions for playing Nita, I'd be very thankful.
TheAnthroDM 12-06-06, 01:09 AM	Dream-Sight.
AJ_Impy 12-06-06, 05:54 AM	Very cryptic insights. Be intuitive rather than intellectual. You are simple, but that doesn't mean stupid. Cut through deceit and duplicity through common sense and straightforward understanding: do not be witty, sarcastic, erudite or debonair. A quest for inner perfection is well within her grasp: "I want to be the best I can". Short, uncomplicated vocabulary, but what is there is used effectively. Not prettily or cleverly, but her words should ring true.