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Problem with Charisma

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#1
emissary666
Jun 03, 2008 17:24:13 How do you separate personality from appearance with Charisma?
#2
nadaka
Jun 03, 2008 17:47:37 easy. let the player decide how pretty his/her character is arbitrarily. It has no effect on charisma. A beautiful young woman can be vapid and dull, while a scarred grizzled old man can exude an intense personality that makes people hang on every word. There will be a tendency for those with high charisma characters to trend towards pretty, and a trend for low charisma characters to trend towards ugly. But it is independent of the actual stats.
#3
doomsought
Jun 03, 2008 18:09:34 Don't!
Your character could be so good looking that people ignore he is a total jerk
or so ugly they forget he's a nice guy. Its all flavor text. Just decide based off how you want your character to be.
#4
akodo
Jun 08, 2008 21:23:56 introduce the stat 'comliness' to represent physical apperance. If you roll height and weight randomly, do this in the same way. If you let your people describe their characters then allow them to pick an appropriate height and weight and age, let them also pick an appropriate comliness.

Rolling height, weight, and comliness can be a good way to get a start on a new character if you haven't decided exactly what do to with them yet
#5
layla_minogue
Jun 09, 2008 21:50:21
introduce the stat 'comliness' to represent physical apperance...

I played with a couple GMs who used Comliness: it was the average of your 6 main ability scores. It had little impact on anything, but it was a good point of reference.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 emissary666 Jun 03, 2008 17:24:13	How do you separate personality from appearance with Charisma?
#2 nadaka Jun 03, 2008 17:47:37	easy. let the player decide how pretty his/her character is arbitrarily. It has no effect on charisma. A beautiful young woman can be vapid and dull, while a scarred grizzled old man can exude an intense personality that makes people hang on every word. There will be a tendency for those with high charisma characters to trend towards pretty, and a trend for low charisma characters to trend towards ugly. But it is independent of the actual stats.
#3 doomsought Jun 03, 2008 18:09:34	Don't! Your character could be so good looking that people ignore he is a total jerk or so ugly they forget he's a nice guy. Its all flavor text. Just decide based off how you want your character to be.
#4 akodo Jun 08, 2008 21:23:56	introduce the stat 'comliness' to represent physical apperance. If you roll height and weight randomly, do this in the same way. If you let your people describe their characters then allow them to pick an appropriate height and weight and age, let them also pick an appropriate comliness. Rolling height, weight, and comliness can be a good way to get a start on a new character if you haven't decided exactly what do to with them yet
#5 layla_minogue Jun 09, 2008 21:50:21	introduce the stat 'comliness' to represent physical apperance... I played with a couple GMs who used Comliness: it was the average of your 6 main ability scores. It had little impact on anything, but it was a good point of reference.