Talk:Charisma/@comment-81.104.204.181-20180304010244

Charisma is the standard dump stat. As only the leader of the party's stat is ever used, this means you are unlikely to ever use it. If using the in-game companions, you can just promote one of them to leader, if not, then only one of your group will need it and *even then* they don't *need* it anyway. The number of quests that provide better rewards for a higher reaction are few, with very slight extra rewards, and mostly at the very beginning (at least two in Candlekeep, Hull and Phydia), which means you need 18 to get the result anyway (as you won't have 20 reputation by then) therefore 17 is almost the same as 3 anyway. Once you do get a reputation of 20, this won't bother you anyway.

As for the stat being important to certain classes, this is gameplay and story segregation, You could not be a Bard with low charisma, no-one would listen to your tales, but this has no gameplay effect, it doesn't even boost the bard-song. This is pretty moot anyway, as the high requirement of course means a high minimum stat anyway