I am pretty sure that unless implicitly stated as part of the story/plot, all paizo npcs and such are considered bisexual.
Also, Paladin.
Fun, a trait that opens up arcane strike for everyone..
Thought about a Mysterious Stranger Gunslinger?
If you go a non-DEX route, consider the "Noble Scion of War" feat as well, to aid your initiative score. It switches the basis for your initiative score from DEX to CHA.
reasonably sure that CHA does not necessarily equate to physical attractiveness. Going purely for high cha is fine, but if you just want your character to be REALLY pretty, you can do that without any stats.
What you're actually making is a character who is very persuasive, charming, and convincing.
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reasonably sure that CHA does not necessarily equate to physical attractiveness. Going purely for high cha is fine, but if you just want your character to be REALLY pretty, you can do that without any stats.
What you're actually making is a character who is very persuasive, charming, and convincing.
I tend to think that it's a mixture of Con and Cha.
Once made a comment towards a 'beautiful' NPC, looking at her face and asking the GM if she had high charisma, then looking at her chest and asked if she had high constitution.
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reasonably sure that CHA does not necessarily equate to physical attractiveness. Going purely for high cha is fine, but if you just want your character to be REALLY pretty, you can do that without any stats.
What you're actually making is a character who is very persuasive, charming, and convincing.
I tend to think that it's a mixture of Con and Cha.
Once made a comment towards a 'beautiful' NPC, looking at her face and asking the GM if she had high charisma, then looking at her chest and asked if she had high constitution.
I have my bat ready, has anyone seen dead horse?
(we had a few threads get recently derailed by this very argument.)
I hope I didn't open too big of a can of worms.
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I am pretty sure that unless implicitly stated as part of the story/plot, all paizo npcs and such are considered bisexual.
Because that's totally realistic.
Wait, I meant "laughably PC".
Once made a comment towards a 'beautiful' NPC, looking at her face and asking the GM if she had high charisma, then looking at her chest and asked if she had high constitution.
Meet my gnome sorceress, who specializes in rainbow themed spells:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/pc_portraits/PCP_rogues12_gh97.jpg
Her Charisma is over 20.
Also, from the neck down, she's scorchingly hot.
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I am pretty sure that unless implicitly stated as part of the story/plot, all paizo npcs and such are considered bisexual.
Because that's totally realistic.
Wait, I meant "laughably PC".
dragons
There was a feat in 3.5 called "Force of Personality" (I forget which book) that allowed you to use your Cha bonus instead of your Wis bonus on Will saves.
I know the OP asked specifically for PFS, but if you or anyone else is considering the same idea outside of PFS, check out SGG's Godling class. It has options for using CHA for saving throws and for non-CHA skills, and it also has an ability called Legendary Beauty for characters who want to be so beautiful that they are truly legendary, like Helen of Troy or Aphrodite (along with game mechanics to use that legendary beauty to essentially force NPCs to do things you want them to).
Charisma measures a character's personality, personal magnetism, ability to lead, and appearance.So based off of that, high CHA does, in fact, make you better looking. Now whether that means you are actually physically more desirable, or your enhanced...personality...makes people like you more is something I will leave up to debate.
ok, yes, but your CHA score is based on all those things, compiled together. So it's perfectly reasonable to have a very attractive character with low CHA, or a very unattractive character with high CHA.
Higher CHA is *associated* with being better looking. It does not necessarily *make* you better looking.
For example, anyone in the Venerable age category has +1 cha over a young character. That does not make them more physically attractive than they were at a young-adult age.
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dragons
One race IMC has gender but no sexuality. I mean, not exactly. They're amphibians with a tri-stage life cycle (similar to newts), but in their third stage they return to the water, absorb their own brains, and become spongelike. This is the stage at which they reproduce, releasing sperm and egg cells into the water around them. They are driven to seek out beds of similarly rooted "elders" just before their transformation, which is pretty easy for them to do as in their second stage they spend a lot of time tending such beds -- they consider them to be sacred places, for obvious reasons.
There is a slight chance that a "second-stager" approaching elderhood will "go mad" and begin killing the elders of the bed he/she has chosen to "take root" in. This is fairly rare but acknowledged to happen from time to time, and as such these beings usually watch those approaching their third stage of life carefully, sometimes going so far as to keep them guarded in a ceremonial "changing house" they they are not allowed to leave until their transformation has progressed far enough that they can do little damage to the elders they root near.
Why does this happen? There is a selfish advantage in it, as eliminating rivals in the elder bed can help one be more likely to pass one's genes on to the next generation. The beings themselves may not understand this, but as they are genetically and socially inclined to cherish and protect their elders during their second stage of life, most of them find this occasional "descent into madness" on the part of their nigh-elder relations to be disturbing and abhorrent (the way most humans would consider the murder of children).
There is a REASON why this happens, even if it is a fantasy reason. These creatures being essentially genderless until descending into a mindless third life stage makes sense for them. Humans being bisexual by default doesn't make sense because humans are not bisexual by default. Maybe elves could be, or gnomes, or dragons, or whoever else -- but humans who are bisexual by default are not humans.
Making everyone bisexual because hey -- PC! -- is silly only in part because it is being done to be PC. If my Pathfinder PC (that's Player Character) is straight (or gay!), does that them make them a sexual deviant? Will they suffer prejudice and discrimination?
Assuming the OP of the information was correct, Paizo would have been better served stating that the cultures of Golarion are very open-minded and tend not to discriminate based on sexual orientation than by announcing that PF humans are bisexual by default.
I don't think that sexuality or sexual preference enters into it.
Charisma isn't sexiness, though it is related depending on who you ask*. But even if you hypothetically used Charisma as a crude measure of hawtness, heterosexual people still tend to act favorably to beautiful people of their own sex.
Presuming you'll be using Charisma for lots of things and not just constant seduction, your choice of sex will not matter at all.
* see every thread ever. we don't need to cover that here.
Once made a comment towards a 'beautiful' NPC, looking at her face and asking the GM if she had high charisma, then looking at her chest and asked if she had high constitution.Meet my gnome sorceress, who specializes in rainbow themed spells:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/pc_portraits/PCP_rogues12_gh97.jpg
Her Charisma is over 20.
Also, from the neck down, she's scorchingly hot.
Well she is adorable in an impish kind of way.
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dragonsOne race IMC has gender but no sexuality. I mean, not exactly. They're amphibians with a tri-stage life cycle (similar to newts), but in their third stage they return to the water, absorb their own brains, and become spongelike. This is the stage at which they reproduce, releasing sperm and egg cells into the water around them. They are driven to seek out beds of similarly rooted "elders" just before their transformation, which is pretty easy for them to do as in their second stage they spend a lot of time tending such beds -- they consider them to be sacred places, for obvious reasons.
There is a slight chance that a "second-stager" approaching elderhood will "go mad" and begin killing the elders of the bed he/she has chosen to "take root" in. This is fairly rare but acknowledged to happen from time to time, and as such these beings usually watch those approaching their third stage of life carefully, sometimes going so far as to keep them guarded in a ceremonial "changing house" they they are not allowed to leave until their transformation has progressed far enough that they can do little damage to the elders they root near.
Why does this happen? There is a selfish advantage in it, as eliminating rivals in the elder bed can help one be more likely to pass one's genes on to the next generation. The beings themselves may not understand this, but as they are genetically and socially inclined to cherish and protect their elders during their second stage of life, most of them find this occasional "descent into madness" on the part of their nigh-elder relations to be disturbing and abhorrent (the way most humans would consider the murder of children).
There is a REASON why this happens, even if it is a fantasy reason. These creatures being essentially genderless until descending into a mindless third life stage makes sense for them. Humans being bisexual by default doesn't make sense because humans are not bisexual by default. Maybe elves could be, or...
I feel like I've had this conversation way too much; it's pretty clear the Devs' intentions with that statement was that, unless specified otherwise, they could be romanced/seduced without worrying about the sexual orientation of the specific NPC. It's not that every NPC is actually bisexual, but that their sexuality, unless otherwise specified, is left unlisted, and thus could be gay, straight or bisexual, depending on what makes sense for the situation. So, if a male PC tries to flirt with an NPC barmaid, she might be straight in that game, but if in another game, a female PC tries to flirt with that barmaid, she might be lesbian in that game.
Or, put hopefully better, it's not that the world is populated entirely by bisexuals, but that any given NPC's sexual orientation shouldn't interfere with romantic/sexual character interaction. To pretend the former is purposefully misunderstanding the intent of the devs.
Well she is adorable in an impish kind of way.
Indeed she is. Indeed she is.
We can rename it the "Blue Steel" build.Why can't it ever be "most beautiful man in the world"?Zoolander?
He needs to use a Bladed Scarf.
If we merged all instances of this thread, would it be longer than FAWTL?
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Forums Are Way Too Long. A quick google search reveals that it is apparently popular in these boards' off-topic discussions forum.
Edit: Upon further investigation, I have discovered that the FAWTL threads are, whether by nature or by design, completely and utterly inane and full of blithering. It is not worth looking at them at all, even for curiosity's sake.
I am pretty sure that unless implicitly stated as part of the story/plot, all paizo npcs and such are considered bisexual.
What is this, the Sims?
Why can't it ever be "most beautiful man in the world"?
Isn't it obvious? Because men are in inferior to Women.
I am pretty sure that unless implicitly stated as part of the story/plot, all paizo npcs and such are considered bisexual.
Because that's totally realistic.
Wait, I meant "laughably PC".
Since its unlikely to bog down combat or anything, roll a d20 to see if the NPC is affected...
Member of the opposite sex: 1-18 they are affected, 19-20 they are not.
Member of the same sex: 1-2 they are affected, 4-18 they are not, 19-20 they consider you a rival and the bonus becomes a penalty.
Being of different races results in a generic +1 penalty to the roll.
EDIT: sorry - this was in reference to use of the Alluring trait.
I think all NPCs are plotsexual. Orientation as the plot demands (like the barmaid flirting above).
This. Absolutely.