Weird 2:00 AM idea for Charisma

[Therem Harth]

Okay, you are all familiar with my complaints about searching and perception in Angband...

And one of the main complaints about Angband in general is that Charisma is a dump stat...

How about making Charisma influence searching and perception?

The idea is, instead of just physical prettiness, Charisma represents how "wordly" and street-smart your character is. So it could affect trap-related skills, and maybe a bunch of other things. (Pseudo-ID speed? Accuracy of level feelings?)

This would mean no more acid attacks affecting CHR and whatnot. (Does V have that? I forget.) But maybe mental attacks could impact CHR instead.

Maybe rename the stat - "WLS" for "worldliness" or "JMT" for "judgment" or something like that, it doesn't really matter. The idea is to make stat #6 no longer a dump stat by having it fix something that didn't quite work before.

(I'm actually experimenting with this on one of my own projects, I'll see if it turns out alright...)

[bio_hazard]

It is a bit of a stretch if we still call it Charisma, but I think it is an interesting idea. I mentioned somewhere on here before that I thought CHA could affect Stealth by sort of a similar mechanism- stealth isn't always about being invisible, it is also having the confidence and social skill to pass yourself off as a someone who belongs there.