@JohnLocke I'd forgotten about that one. It's good.
On a completely unrelated topic, does anyone know why SE decided to make downvotes so much less rep-changing than upvotes? I've been wondering why it's entirely possible to have a post with a very negative score that still results in a gain of reputation.
@Gryphon I think minus 10 would be pretty extreme for a bad answer, and the random downvotes would bring down user rep a lot. If it's only -1 rep for the downvoter, people would downvote way more. If it was -5 or -9 for the downvoter, people would downvote a lot less. I would be less inclined to give up that much rep unless the answer was really bad.
@Gryphon Okay, I'm almost to that point, so I'll look at it when I get there.
@Kepotx I don't blame you. The author said it was originally longer, but they ran into the max character limit for answers. It's really interesting, though, and very well thought out.
@Gryphon I had missed that question altogether. It is really well done.
I had a gryphon mount in a DnD campaign once...we thought we were really tough so we dropped into the middle of a barbarian horde all superhero-like. We survived...my poor gryphon, not so much.
Ever since then I refrain from naming mounts...well ok I did name a dragon that I had as a mount, but its a freaking dragon. He could eat demons whole.
Charisma is what you use for deception, persuasion and intimidation. Though you can arguably substitute strength for intimidation at times, we also situationally allow people to use wisdom or intelligence checks on things when it makes sense.