OK, call me stupid but I'm still not sure how to interpret this. The way I
read it, your Charisma stat has no impact whatsoever on your chances to
resist a spell directed at you. Makes sense to me. The second sentence
"..interact/affect creatures" seems to indicate that a higher charisma means
you have a better chance of affecting mobs with your songs, i.e. less chance
for them to resist. This reopens the issue I raised last week. Example:
Two 20th level bards attempt to use Lullaby song against a 23d level mob.
One bard has a charisma of 85. The other bard has charisma of 100. Singing
and instrument skills both the same. Based on how I interpret Butler's
comment, the bard with the 100 charisma has a better chance of putting the
mob to sleep. If charisma has no effect on mob resistance, then both bards
would have an equal chance of putting the mob to sleep.
I would really like to know the correct answer to this issue. I wear items
that increase my charisma for the sole purpose of increasing my chances of
affecting mobs with my songs. I have other items I can wear that increase
other stats as well as improve my AC. If charisma doesn't affect mobs
resistance, there is no reason, for me to wear the charisma increasing items
unless I am selling stuff to merchants. I guess wearing the charisma items
to reduce my chance of missing notes is a reason to wear them but I could
live with missing the notes in exchange for the benefit the other items
give.
Galtin of E'ci
> Butler said there is no correlation between Charisma and
> one's saves. Your charisma is related to how well you
> interact/affect creatures. He also mentioned that
> Bard's singing skill has a check against charisma.
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> I guess this explains where the talk about charisma affecting
> missed notes started. And the talk about charisma not
> affecting resists is a misinterpretation (your charisma does
> not affect *your* resist rate). The entire post is included
> below if you're interested in the other stuff:
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