Okay, so we've all got these fancy little personality things that dick around with our characters' stats. But what do the stats actually do? It's a pretty stupid idea to give your mage a personality that ends up granting him all the awesome attack power of an enraged gerbil--and it's pretty frustrating to dream up a neat little character concept and learn that he may actually be relying on an enraged gerbil to do all the damage for him, since he can't do shizzit himself.
So, do the goggles do anything?