Quote Originally Posted by Kish View Post
Cart before horse. Your reputation gives you a bonus or penalty to reaction checks. If your Charisma is just on the edge between two results, then the reaction you get will be different depending on whether your reputation is 8 or 12. But if your Charisma is 3, everyone who is making a reaction check will hate you whatever your reputation is.

(Which is not to say there aren't separate pure-reputation checks in the game: Jaheira's response to Elminster asking whether she was right to stand with you, for example.)
Ah. All I remembered was that my evil thief had to pick Fuller's pocket to get that dagger. Of course, I think that character also got caught stealing in the inn and informed the guard that he was an "uppity bald virgin," which may also have had something to do with it...