Tags, attributes and affects on unique dialogue

[PK_Ultra]

For RP purposes Ive been looking into how dialogue is structured based on your tags and attributes. Heres what I know.

GENDER:
-Male: refered to in male pronouns.
-Female: refered to in female pronouns.

RACE:
-Dwarf: dialogue tends to be about discrimination
-Elf: cannibalism is a running theme
-Human: people see your race as bullies
-Lizard: Prideful and arrogant. Lets you read that one Lizard tome on that boat.
-Undead: Mysterious and vague allusions to the past and the self

ORIGIN:
My impressions are, Beast is a freedom fighter/terrorist who hates himself, Fane talks about himself when eternals are mentioned with a heaping side of intellectualized ego, Ifan is a grizzled criminal, Lohse is a suffering pollyanna, Red Prince has excessive pride being red and a prince and sebille is a femme fatale.

ASPIRATION:
-Barbarian: Confrontational, different from Strength dialogue checks in that Strength-based dialogue is more menacing while barbarian is being argumentative.
-Jester: You're either good with kids or annoying. Your jokes arent that funny. Good for solving certain puzzles.
-Mystic: You're either a spiritual hippy or like to throw scripture quotes at people.
-Noble: Nobility is about your connections, your fancy life and propriety. Its different from Lizard dialogue in that Lizard dialogue tends to be haughty while Noble dialogue tends to be entitled.
-Outlaw: You're either trying to lie through your teeth or you know a guy who knows a guy.
-Scholar: You get unique loredump dialogue, Useful for opening unique options for various quests. Gold standard for metagaming runs.
-Soldier: You get solid lines with this one. Its not chest-beating jarhead lingo, more like your grandpa talking about his time in 'Nam. My personal favourite.

ATTRIBUTE:
-Strength: Menacing dialogue
-Finesse: Flirty dialogue
-Intelligence: Logical or infodump dialogue
-Constitution: Motivational
-Memory: introspective responses
-Wits: Sassy

ALIGNMENT:
-Hero: Typical knight in shining armor dialogue
-Villain: charismatic and self-serving.


What do you guys think? Agree? Disagree? Got anything to add?

edit: updated stuff a little bit.

[Zordiark Darkeater]

Nice was searching for infos like this.

[Syrrah]

About LOHSE:

Her dialogue picks usually revolve about her being famous, but also often dealing with trying to find her place in the world and sometimes even about having to live with a demon inside of her. Most of her speech is very down to earth.

You really nailed it with "jester" though ... a completely worthless tag in my opinion.

[Draconiya]

I agree with most of what you compiled, but Scholar is the best tag in my opinion. You cannot read some books without it, cannot access a certain hidden place on a certain red island without it, cannot complete the surgery quest in Act II without it, and it's pretty much always helpful, while other tags (especially Jester!) lead to more conflict than if you'd chosen a non-tagged option. You saying that whatever Scholar lets you talk about is explained by the NPC in the next line is not true whatsoever; there are countless occasions where you'd never know the details unless you have that tag.

[PK_Ultra]

Originally posted by Draconiya:

I agree with most of what you compiled, but Scholar is the best tag in my opinion. You cannot read some books without it, cannot access a certain hidden place on a certain red island without it, cannot complete the surgery quest in Act II without it, and it's pretty much always helpful, while other tags (especially Jester!) lead to more conflict than if you'd chosen a non-tagged option. You saying that whatever Scholar lets you talk about is explained by the NPC in the next line is not true whatsoever; there are countless occasions where you'd never know the details unless you have that tag.

gotcha. I was trying to say in terms of roleplay its dialogue options are boring. Gameplay-wise its pretty top notch, thanks for letting me know how confusing it was.