Can anyone provide me with some advice on how to RP a Goblin with 5 Charisma? Specifically a Goblin Druid who's animal companion is a Giant Praying Mantis.
I'd go with "alien". Not so much someone who is "uncharismatic", per se, as much as someone who is just very detached from intelligent humanoids and thinks/expresses themselves in a way that would be unnatural to their kind.
What alignment is your Goblin, anyways?
Oh, right! Neutral Evil. Because I can't really easily be much else, being both a Druid and a Goblin.
Read my entire posting history.
That's the only example I need of low-charisma conversation.
Yeah, definitely "detached", then. You are as detached from the suffering, pain, and fear of sentient humanoids as a wolf is from the bleatings of sheep. You are a higher predator, though - a thinking predator. The "evil" part of NE ensures that the suffering you cause doesn't draw out remorse or pity from you.
Yeah, definitely "detached", then. You are as detached from the suffering, pain, and fear of sentient humanoids as a wolf is from the bleatings of sheep. You are a higher predator, though - a thinking predator. The "evil" part of NE ensures that the suffering you cause doesn't draw out remorse or pity from you.
Ooh, nice. I think I can work with that.
Have fun with it. :)
While detached works well, if you're looking for more options you could go for Unremarkable. This focuses on the Personal Presence aspect of Charisma, you aren't unlikable or surly you just fade into the background. You're the guy standing at the bar, unable to get served while dozens of people come and go and come again.
I find this works well with casters because you're ignored all through the social stuff and then combat/exploration happens and you explode on to center stage.
All I could think of after reading that first paragraph was this .
But that is definitely an option as well. The way I've been imagining this character leans a bit more towards detached, but this still seems viable at this point, since I haven't fleshed this character out completely yet.
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Talk about feeding upon the other sex a lot?
Mantis friend and all that.
No fair, Dannorn - I was just coming up with stuff off the top of my cranium! :D
Can you remind me where you got your example from?
Ah. Apologies - I saw the capitalized letters and thought, "Rules references!"
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Any way you want. Charisma is an abstract, unquantifiable attribute.
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Any way you want. Charisma is an abstract, unquantifiable attribute.
I'm pretty sure the OP quantified charisma just fine. It's 5.
Eisur, I have no idea how you view the Charisma ability, and have no stake in whatever position you take. Now, however, might be a good time to qualify what, if anything, the numerical value attached to your Charisma means to you.
PC, Zhayne, at the risk of sounding paranoid, I would say that we should focus on what the original poster wanted and avoid a sequel to the earlier thread (for whose conclusion I'm as guilty as anyone else). If I'm misreading your posts, you have my apologies. :)
I used to only see it as something that determined physical attractiveness. Over time I learned that that is not necessarily what it means, many of the people I play with agree that is does deal with it, but that's definitely not all it is. I kind of see it as a guideline these days, a guideline to things like behavior and such. Which seems to be the way I've seen it discussed in the other thread I saw earlier.
You could smell funny...
"Look! A clown! See, I told you I smelled something funny."
Yeah, the "I'm really trying, honest", but everyone hates your voice, hates your face and hates everything you do.
Course, this might take the game too far into comedy territory for some groups.