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With cha adding items do you really need 18 cha? If you have cha ammy and cloak would add 16 cha and rest into dex or str depending on how you plan on playing this royal character. Once you get royal to lvl 45 and can have royals join you how much does cha play into pledge size then? Guess this is just some more things to think about. :)

To be honest Roo, I don't think Cha would be good for you. You deal with enough drama as it is - a larger pledge would only cause MUCH more of that. Why not make a Str or Con royal that is practical to play. And like Goat said, once you hit 45, the alliance system will give you more than enough membership spots. Hell - Star has base Cha and she has 60 members. Please don't become EZCompany and choose quantity of members over quality (and before anyone flames that comment - their prince has actually used those words to describe their membership idea).

I would go 16 con and the rest to dex. 16 is the break point to get increased hp gains, and you want that. You'd then have a base dex of 12, and you'd use the spell to get to 17. You could add an ammy to get to 18 for an added +1 to damage, and use that till you can use your cloak. You'd have more hp than you do now, so not using an orc wouldn't matter as much. And once you could use your cloak, you could swap the dex ammy to an orc one.

I would not be full charisma. You have enough high level people now that honestly anyplace you'd want to go you could find enough people usually to go with. Ken isn't so big that there's this never ending pool of great people to recruit either...why have all that space for um, well, err, babos...

Finally I honestly can't see remaking. I did it at 49 and a half on my other mage but I was determined to hi not 50 but 52. I knew I'd have my work cut out for me. It's not fun gaining law again, leveling again, using junk stuff because you WILL die and drop stuff, not being able to go to FV or TOI or FI. And for what...?You like the social aspects of the game so much, the hanging out in town part of it. If you remake and you seriously want to hit 50 (and if you did remake I would think you'd want that), you'd have to turn off whisper and global and just kill mops for a few weeks.

Also, all of this presumes you won't leave for say WOW...

I don't regret remaking but the first few weeks hunting orcs again was sorta rough. I had some really nice mage stuff and I walked around with bone armor and a +6 hbow for awhile.