<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=189056.msg9154036#msg9154036">Quote from: CarnivalOfTheGoat on 06-11-2013, 04:00:07</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Wow, Re Z L...I have to say, I've never seen a character sheet that made me want to try a game <em>less</em>.<br/><br/>Charisma in D&amp;D can mean a great many things due to how it's set up. It can mean looks. It can mean force of personality (either in an uplifting or a brutal way). I'm assuming that given Inanna's role her charisma represents being quite a stunner AND being ultra seductive and lovely.<br/><br/>I really don't like the way Charisma works in D&amp;D, actually, and I haven't since 2d Ed. I would appreciate a mechanic that more easily permitted, say, Ghaazala to be intimidating as hell while still not being able to manage some of the other things Charisma does for you, <em>without</em> burning a feat.<br/><br/>Ghaazala is arguably <em>striking</em> (Hah hah, no, yes, she DOES hit things but that's not what I mean) due to her physical...Well, they aren't deformities, to a tiefling, are they? Her diabolical attributes, her dramatic coloration and her height and musculature...But she's not 'pretty,' certainly not 'gorgeous,' and to a lot of people the fact that her horns are bigger than theirs might matter far more than the fact that she's got somewhat broad hips and the booty that goes with them. She also has the subtle and demure personality of a bag of hammers out on shore-leave looking for a nail.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Isn't the sheet so beautiful!<br/><br/>But yea, Charisma kinda sucks as a stat.  In fact I'd say most "social" stats from all kinds of games are usually pretty lack luster.