Talk:Jester Lavorre/@comment-6171008-20180115214531/@comment-33165981-20180519082314

Blumenblatt Charisma is not just how charming you are. Charisma is your presence, the raw potential you have, innate power, your ability to connect emotionally with the world but it is actually not your personality. Personality is made up only in a small part by stats and mostly just RP.

In D&D terms, Intelligence is the active concious logical mind, Wisdom is willpower and instinct and the subconcious mind, and Charisma is emotion and that connection between the world around you and your soul, for lack of a better word.

Have you ever been next to somebody and without even seeing them you somehow "feel" their mood or intent? That's you sensing their charisma. Because it represents your presence or imprint in the world this is the stat saving throw for effects that try to move you dimensionally like Banishment or when you try to teleport to an area warded against you. It is also why Charisma is used by Sorcerers, their power comes from within - their magic affects the world like how their charisma grants a presence and imprint within it.

Jester has an enthusiastic, occasionally annoying but friendly and optimistic personality but she doesn't have much presence. It would be hard for her to persuade you, intimidate you or give off "vibes" you'd just sense. She doesn't seem to be able to control how much she does or does not imprint in the world and emotions of those around her outside the bonds of friendship. Caleb, however, has talent for keeping his secrets hidden, for controlling how much presence he lets himself have. That control is represented in his Cha score.