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My character has an 18 strength.
DM) ok, roll dice to force the gate open.
My character has an 18 charisma.
DM) ok, it only works if you personally also have an 18 charisma and can act it out.
It also bothers me when someone's character has like 7 charisma, but the player still acts like the sales guy he is in real life.
I was playing a max charisma warlock and the wizard with his whole 13 charisma kept trying to lead all the conversations. Irritating.
Personally, I think D&D's social skills are so bad they should just rip charisma out of the game. I'd rather they no-ass it than half-ass it.
Intelligence is also an issue.
A friend of mine who is IRL quite smart and loves riddles was playing a really dumb dwarf. He had serious issues sticking to his character and halfway though the campaign he abandoned trying to play dumb alltogether.
But it can also go the other way round.
I'm the same way, I play a really dumb barbarian (before the dm changed the house rules, I've just kept the original stats) an am also in charge of our Ledger... So I try to pretend that I'm making mistakes but the spreadsheet says otherwise.. Oops