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Tagged with roleplaying ability-scores
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How to play a low wisdom character with these flaws and ideals?
I've been roleplaying as my Dwarven Warlock for a short while now, and I've grown quite attached to her as a character. She has a wisdom score of 8, intelligence score of 12 and a charisma of 17.
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How do I roleplay a character with higher wisdom than myself, and lower intelligence?
I have seen a few similar questions related to intelligence, charisma and a general disparity in mental stats, but nothing yet on high Wis, low Int.
Lets start with the premise:
Intelligence measures ...
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How can I roleplay a character who's been lobotomized? [closed]
I am doing a Starfinder campaign playing a Ysoki technomancer who had a black market brain augmentation go wrong, resulting in a "unique type of emergency lobotomization."
I was lucky in my ability ...
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Players preemptively rolling, even though their rolls are useless or are checking the wrong skills
Part of this answer made me think about my own situation:
It's entirely possible that the ranger is the only one that has a chance at succeeding at the check and thus it would be inappropriate to ...
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How can I play a dumb and un-charismatic character?
I've got a character I'm thinking about swapping into a campaign, since I'm not having much fun with my current character, because of how passive I've made them. The new character I have lined up is a ...
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Do ability scores force a character to act in a certain way? [duplicate]
As a group, most of the players at our table are fans of rolling for stats. This leads and has led to multiple amazing characters and some .. a bit less amazing.
Something that is rather consistent ...
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How can I encourage players to role-play using their ability scores?
The physical ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution), haven't been much of a problem. Feel free to include advice on role-playing these scores as well though.
When it comes to the ...
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Handling permanent ability damage from cursed items in character
I've been playing/DMing for some time and I'm running an old Planescape module I've updated for Pathfinder. This module contains the cursed item Vacuous Grimoire, which players have a chance of ...
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Does a PC know the general strengths and weaknesses of their stats?
Recently I had a minor discussion with our DM about whether my character knows that he is not charismatic or not.
I believe that my character should know that he is not charismatic, our DM however ...
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What type of choices would a wise but unintelligent PC make? [closed]
I will be playing a wise, but unintelligent Moon Druid. He is attempting to hide from a cult of evil Druids of which he was a former member.
One idea I had is that his name is, for example, Tom, and ...
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How can I model a character polymorphed into a (stupid, speechless) Tyrannosaurus Rex?
The wizard in my party likes to use polymorph to turn himself into a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The T-Rex has Intelligence 2, and cannot understand or speak any langauges. Although the character retains his ...
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Character development suggestions for a low Dexterity character?
I read in some book (forget which) that players should use a low ability score as an opportunity for character development; for example, a low Con character could have insecurities and be very ...
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How do I roleplay a character with a large disparity between their intelligence and wisdom?
This question is tangential to the (good) question how to role-play an intelligent character.
Say you have a system that differentiates between intelligence and wisdom (dd4.0 being the obvious ...
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