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What is Charisma?

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Charisma is an Ability Score that determines how well your character can interact with other characters in Baldur's Gate 3. Learn more about Charisma and know what actions it can affect in the game!

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What is Charisma?

Confidence, Charm and Communicaiton

Charisma measures a characters ability to interact with others. It affects your character's conversation skills in the game and whether they can successfully lie, persuade, or intimidate others into taking actions.

Appears Often in Dialogue

Chrarisma, and Charisma based skills will often appear in dialogue choices through out Baldur's Gate 3.

Charisma Based Skills

Skill Description
Deception How well you can lie or hide the truth, both verbally or otherwise.
Persuasion Attempting to influence someone or a group of people with tact, social graces, or good nature.
Intimidation Attempting to influence someone through overt threats, hostile actions, and physical violence.
Performance How well you can play music, dance, act, or do some other form of entertainment.

Charisma Based Classes

Charisma Based Classes
Paladin Icon Paladin Bard Icon Bard Sorcerer IconSorcerer Warlock Icon Warlock

Charisma is the main stat for Sorcerers, Bards and Warlocks and a secondary main stat for Paladins.

Primary Casting Ability

Paladins, Bards, Sorcerers and Warlocks all use Charisma as their primary spellcasting ability . The higher the Charisma score, the harder their spells will hit, and the harder it will be for enemies to resist spell effects.

Baldur's Gate 3 Related Guides

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