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Here's a post I found on the D&D forums that might be useful.

Sorcerer’s and casting spells. (Importance of Charisma)

Sorcerers create magic the way a poet creates poems, with inborn talent honed by practice. They have no books, no mentors, no theories -- just raw power that they direct at will.

In religious studies, "charisma" sometimes refers to the inner personal power in an individual, divinely conferred. I had to read endless writings about it in college, especially Max Weber, who described it as:
Charisma is a certain quality of a individual by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These ... are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a leader.

This is the aspect of Charisma often underplayed. (Also, I am not suggesting that anybody involved in writing D&D had to have read Weber, only that he's a good source for reading about this aspect of it.)
Charisma isn't just good looks or even greatness of personality. There is a sense of transcendent greatness about highly charismatic people.

The d20 SRD notes "This ability [Charisma] represents actual strength of personality, not merely how one is perceived by others in a social setting." Wizards engage in study and make their magic through careful scholarship; clerics pray and get in tune with their god's will; sorcerers have innate magical powers that manifest themselves upon the world through pure strength of spirit.


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Greetings everyone.

Having read both the Draconomcion book of Dragons (D&D) and dragons revised(PF)I find I personally prefer how the metallic dragons are presented in the Draconomicon over those in the revised. Especially Silvers as I was never personally a big fan of their immense paladin esque theme and prefer the Draconomicons defining of them.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should best incorporate the Draconomicon definings of them without having to alter the background too much?