Mysterious Charisma Drop

balboaj · Post by **balboaj** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:05 am

Somthing bizarre just happend in my shadows of amn game. My charisma, which was 16, has dropped to 5. I'm not cursed or anything; it's just 5 now. When I noticed it, it really pissed me off. Incidentally, although it doesn't affect my game too much, Nalia's charisma has dropped to 1. Does anybody know what's going on here, because I never heard of this bug before, and I have all the latest patches.

BALDURPLAYER · Post by **BALDURPLAYER** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:42 am

have u been using the Rod Of Terror lately?

balboaj · Post by **balboaj** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:56 am

Yes, I have. And I just now read the description of it with the 20% chance of a charisma drop. Guess I should start reading more than the stats of new items I get. I'm going to load up an old game and sell the stupid rod. Thanks for the help.

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:18 pm

It might be worth searching the forum for the way to exploit the rod of terror, there's a glitch you could take advantage of if you want. to continue with the same party. Alternatively you could use Shadow Keeper to restore your charisma.

balboaj · Post by **balboaj** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:55 pm

Thanks very much for the shodowkeeper tip. Than made my life a lot easier.

Celacena · Post by **Celacena** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:37 am

it is more fun getting 25 CHA by going 'round the block' shall we say!

lots of items make it possible and I admit that I have used it on low CHA characters to give them the extra ring-slot back. in RPG terms, limiting the character to 2 rings is unjustified, so using an exploit to get CHA to a level that the ring would give seems fair enough.

I'd rather be able to get 25 DEX really...