Can a woman with 2 charisma be intimidating?
>>46108122
Most things which can kill you can be intimidating in the right circumstance
That depends. I sometimes let my players use a strength modifier for intimidate rolls, because it never made sense to me that seven foot tall mountain of muscle barbarian who had 8 charisma can't intimidate a random guard.
I guess if she's doing something dangerous enough, but probably not without basically just being about to attack someone
>>46108212
I think intimidation is probably a lot more context sensitive than most skills
>>46108259
What if she put a knife blade to her throat and started cursing loudly. Would that work?
>>46108285
>context sensitive
That sounds like a trick. Is this a trick?
>>46108292
Sounds more like a bluff to me, but she'd also be bad at that
Or the start of fucking blood magic I dunno
>>46108122
Yes. All she has to do is invest lots of ranks in the Intimidate skill and optionally get some magical items that boost Intimidate.
Attributes/stats are merely a minor bonus or penalty to the relevant skills.
>>46108285
Honestly this
>Have a gun to a guy's head
>Roll intimidate
>Shit roll lmao you fail
>Fugg :-DDD
Really the only reason intimidate rolls are there is for other effects like demoralizing and shit
>>46108122
No, not really. Charisma is a measure of a character's force of will. She has less force of will than a squirrel at that point.
>>46108122
She can be plenty intimidating.
What she can't be is very self aware. She might be incidentally intimidating, but it won't make much of a difference because she barely has any concept of self or individuality.
>>46108122
That's not charisma works.
>>46108122
Sure.
Let your acts speak for you.
>>46108122
When she gets in a position of power, very much so.
>>46110275
>>46110256
Wait, what? Then what is wisdom for?
>>46108501
That would imply that a half competent dm and players read the rules and that half remembered traditions and fever dreams.
>>46108501
>Have a gun to a guy's head
>Roll intimidate
>Shit roll lmao you fail
This happens, though. There's always that one jackass who will hold your gun in place for you and say "Do it, faggot"
A human with 2 charisma is freakishly wooden and like a soulless automaton. It's far, far below the human average, below the natural distribution even so even the most naturally unapproachable person is more personable by the barest degree.
I would say they can't create a convincing illusion of threat. Unnerving, perhaps, intimidating, no. I'd think they can barely manage a conversation beyond a robotic analysis of the situation.
>>46110365
wisdom controls input
charisma controls output
>>46110377
This is a good post.
>>46110373
Demonstrating a very real capacity for threat is not intimidation, not in the sense that D&D rolls with. You are not instilling terror of yourself, your are instilling terror of what you can do.
>>46110364
Pic related.
>>46110377
Anon, I think you're needlessly insulting wooden soulless automatons.
>>46108122
You tell me
>>46110410
If you think she has 2 charisma, you're a fucking idiot who has no idea how the fuck the stats work
>>46110410
>implying low charisma = ugly
Fucking no god dammit
>>46110420OP never said that it's D&D.
>>46110365
Wisdom is empathy, experience and innate knowledge.
>>46110388
So wisdom is how good you can observe the world, charisma is how you can act upon it.
And intelligence is only for remembering things?
>>46110437
Wisdom is maturity, insight, and how in-touch with reality one is
>>46110439
Intelligence is the collection, recollection, and computation of facts. What you know and how you can apply what you know procedurally (but not intuitively).
>>46110439
intelligence is all the processing in between
you can see the creature is hairy, and big, and has claws
but without int you don't know it's a FUCKING BEAR RUN YOU IDIOT
>>46110440
Wisdom is how keen your senses, instincts and situational awareness are.
>>46110425
The only relevant girl from the whole Roanapur with below average charisma would be Frederica - she's capable combatant but literally breaks down and curls into a fetal position at couple points when faced with non-violent social interaction.Revy is not to stellar either, because she's also bad with people and kind of an asshole.
>>46110464
Nah, that's Perception.
>>46110513
Perception is a Wisdom-based skill.
>>46108122
if she put 20 points in the intimidation skill yeah sure.
I mean even if she had an 18 in cha that's only a +9 bonus which would be matched by skill points at lvl 3
>>46110503
Revy and Frederika are both examples of Low Cha Combat monsters, yeah
>>46108122
Minimum is 3. Are you afraid of autists, op?
>>46108122
>Can a woman with 2 charisma be intimidating?
Sure, if you're tied down and she's trying to fuck you against your will. And you know she has incurable VD. And is babycrazy. And your setting has really stringent child-support laws.
>>46108122
Wouldn't the lack of charisma just make them act strangely around people making them feel uncomfortable and awkward
>>46110373
>>46110393
>>46108122
Never really got why Intimidation is tied to Charisma. Well, I kinda do get that, as someone who has authority and knows how to make people scared of him just with his presence.
But what I don't get about it is why they don't include other modifiers into it, like letting you replace your Charisma mod with your Str Mod or something. Yeah, the Half-Elf bard is really scary when he says he'll rip off my head and fuck my skull with his 18 Charisma dick, but I'm pretty scared of the 8 feet tall, greatsword-wielding, plate-clad juggernaut as well.
>>46110393
This exact same thing happened to me too lol. We'd captured some of the enemy prisoners and I told them if they didn't tell us their information I'd punch them really hard. Five failed intimidate rolls later I'd knocked them all out.
>>46108122
Low charisma usually means you are meek, soft spoken and don't command respect, not that you are ugly. So no.
Depends on the game and it's books.
I remember D&D and Pathfinder have feats that allow you to use strength for an intimidation check if it's about knocking heads or something.
I think WoD/nWoD/CofD had a strength+intimidation rule where you crushed a rock in your hands or intimidated someone using brute strength.
Overall I'd say it's possible but she'd have to be a musclewoman who probably looks like a man (maybe that explains the 2 charisma?).
>>46108122
To a man with 1 charisma.
>>46113009
>>46113854
>Older sister and her retard friends were obsessed with pancakes for two weeks straight
>Kept making them by the dozens even though they only ate a few
>Out of nowhere the obsession stopped
>They act like it never happened
A few years after it ended my sister mentioned me really liking pickled things after she saw me eating a pickled egg in my room. I brought up her pancake obsession as a counter. She gave me this pissed look and said, "what are you talking about?"
I don't get it.
>>46113910
>She gave me this pissed look and said, "what are you talking about?"
She genuinely might not remember. Memory works differently for each individual and some people are easily forgetting things that would stick with others.
>>46110364
Damnit, what the fuck happened to Fuhrer Merkel?
Did someone drained her life force?
>>46110401
Hilary's got plenty of presence. She's not Obama-level, but she can command a room for sure.
>>46115540
Remember Senator Palpatine from Star Wars? It's pretty much the same thing happening here.
>>46115596
Who is her Anakin?
>>46110393
>You are not instilling terror of yourself, your are instilling terror of what you can do.
And they ain't buying it, hence "Do it faggot"
>>46115540
She's a secret Nazi trying to push Germany back to the far right. She's depressed that she had to go this far and some of them still defend her for it.
>>46112268
>But what I don't get about it is why they don't include other modifiers into it, like letting you replace your Charisma mod with your Str Mod or something.
RTFM
>>46112320
What if you're big and intimidating but just really, really bad with people?
You are now imagining bara half-orcs getting all flustered and blushing when approached by elves.
>>46116969
I'm mostly imagining the population of /fit/.
>>46117000
So exactly what I said.
>>46108432
While normally this is the case, a 2 in the relevant stat is going to give you a -4, and anyone who wants to make an intimidating character is probably going to have 14+ Charisma as well (assuming they can spare the points/rolls/whatever), so we're talking a difference of -6. Anything the 14 Cha character has a 50% chance of intimidating, the 2 Cha character has only a 20% chance.
If we were talking 8 Charisma I'd say go for it, but you probably want to ignore any skill where you have a 2 in the relevant stat, unless you're making a joke character or want an amusing way to nerf your Wizard or some shit.
>>46108122
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_XaIuw6K6Q
I'm going to have to think about that.... uhhhhhhhhh
