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Discover your own stats in D&D. Attempt Umpteen.

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by chevalier, Mar 29, 2004.

  1. Fara Gems: 4/31
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    Stats:
    Strength - 8
    Dexterity - 15
    Constitution - 9
    Intelligence - 14
    Wisdom - 13
    Charisma - 16

    Feats:
    Alertness, Combat Casting, Run


    Total: 75
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    Assessment: Stats:
    Strength - Totally agree. I am not physically strong.
    Dexterity - Right on the money.
    Constitution - I think I would've put it at 10 or 11 had I been assigning the stats myself. I get sick pretty easily, but pain means very little to me.
    Intelligence - Yep.
    Wisdom - Sounds about right.
    Charisma - Damn right.

    Assessment: Feats:
    Alertness - You bet your life.
    Combat Casting - I think that's pretty accurate.
    Run - You cannot out-sprint me. I suck at distance running, though, so I'm not sure if I would've given myself this feat or not.

    Assessment: Un-Given Feats:
    I don't think there are any there that were not assigned to me that I think should have been.


    Assessment: Overall: Wow. Amazingly accurate.

    Good find, chevalier!
     
  2. Will Gems: 13/31
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    Strength - 12
    Dexterity - 9
    Constitution - 10
    Intelligence - 13
    Wisdom - 10
    Charisma - 10

    Feats: Expertise
     
  3. Maertyn

    Maertyn There's nothing I cannot embrace! Veteran

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    Str 11
    Dex 8
    Con 12
    Int 13
    Wis 9
    Cha 9

    Can I be a townsman? :D

    I couldn't click on help, didn't know what some of the attributes meant and was too lazy to look those up. I guess the score's are quite appropriate, though; considering 15+ are outstanding scores already.

    EDIT: Forgot Ambidexterity and Great Fortitude! Yeah, fit me quite well, too.
     
  4. Oaz Gems: 29/31
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    If the average for a species' ability score is 10, then you can be pretty sure that a vast majority has a score of, say, 8-12.

    For example, the mean of peoples' IQ (I will say for people from the US so as to not raise debates over whether people in Massachusetts are smarter than those in Somalia) is 100. The standard deviation of IQ is 15. What this means is that around 68% of the population has an IQ from 85 to 115. 95% of the population has an IQ from 70 to 130. Somwhere around 99.5% of the population has an IQ from 55 to 145.

    Now I am not saying that IQ is proportionate to Intelligence, but if, say, 200 is the highest IQ ever recorded and SPers rate their IQ to be:

    (10 * Int + Wis)/2

    (i.e. average of Int. and Wis times 10)

    Then I estimate we would probably get an average IQ of, maybe around 125.

    That is statisically significant.

    Note: the mean and standard deviation of IQ might not be exactly what I posted, but I am confident that it is in that area. You can make me look stupid by giving a link otherwise, though.

    I like to think that hard work pays off more than a high Int score anyway. I would rather be a dedicated, hard-working person with 9 Int than a lazy 16 Int windbag.
     
  5. Gnarfflinger

    Gnarfflinger Wiseguy in Training

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    They say mine are:

    Str: 12
    Dex: 9
    Con: 12
    Int: 14
    Wis: 13
    Cha: 12

    Actually, I understood that Intelligence would translate to a bell curve. In that case, mine would be 17. The numbers would be higher if I had developed them. I'm wondering if Tourette Syndrome is messing with that, and if years of drinking too much has lowered some of them. The last point was good for Great Fortitude...
     
  6. Rolsuk Fryulee Gems: 13/31
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    STR 12
    DEX 13
    CON 12
    INT 12
    WIS 12
    CHA 12

    I agree with Faerus, the test is too relative, I don't like it. I'd say the my DEX should be higher, and I doubt the rest of my stats are 12. I might have been too modest when doing this test.
     
  7. chevalier

    chevalier Knight of Everfull Chalice ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran

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    Ask your ex next time. :D

    That is more or less correct, but it still doesn't exclude the possibility of a higher concentration of high INT scores in a given group as relates to the rest of the society. We can judge the probability to be quite low, but low probability doesn't make falsehood yet, so all those high INT scores don't have to be heavily overblown. Some of them likely are, but we can't just say "pretty much everyone has 8-12, so you can't have a 16".

    Average IQ of 125 might be true for SPers, not like I bother estimating that. And I don't think WIS and IQ are related in such a direct way.
     
  8. Jathszu Khatharua Gems: 9/31
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    (10*Int + Wis)/2 = ?
    Example: Int - 13, Wis - 12
    (10*13+12)/2 = (130+12)/2 = (142)/2 = 71
    or it should be something like this:
    10*(Int+Wis)/2 = (10/2)*(Int+Wis) = 5*(Int+Wis)
    which means:
    5*(13+12) = 5*25 = 125
    Correct me if I'm wrong :)
    But I don't think that Wisdom and IQ are related(at least not in such a direct way)

    [ January 05, 2005, 00:33: Message edited by: Jathszu Khatharua ]
     
  9. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Wow!

    Str-1
    Dex-0
    Con-3
    Int-0
    Wis-1
    Cha-2

    Between Arahar and myself, we have perfect 18's across the board! I'm the ying to his yang. :xx:

    Of course, with 2 zeros, I'm technically dead.
     
  10. joacqin

    joacqin Confused Jerk Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Stop bragging Splunge, you with a 3 in dex? Dont make me laugh! And that 2 in charisma is just so wrong, you are nowhere near charismatic enough to reach up to a 2! :p ;)
     
  11. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Actually, it was a 3 in Con. But OK, so I lied.

    Con - 0
    Cha - 0

    Now I'm really dead. Of course, that would explain alot. :shake:
     
  12. Rednik Gems: 21/31
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    Nah, 0 Con is reserved for the bubble boy and such. Give yourself a 1.
     
  13. Oaz Gems: 29/31
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    I can accept that someone has a 16 in Int (or whatever is the equivalent) - be it chevalier, Taluntain, the newest member, Padeen... but to say that somewhere around even 10% of all people who post on SP have such a high score is a long way to go.

    Someone probably has 16 Intelligence here. Maybe even 17 or 18. There's just a really good chance it's not you.

    125 IQ as an average SP member's score is really, high as well - considering that somewhere around 10-20% of most people would have that score or higher (given a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15).
     
  14. Gnarfflinger

    Gnarfflinger Wiseguy in Training

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    But wouldn't our common hobby demand a bit more than the average person in the way of grey matter? A lot of people that listen in on me talking game stuff wonder what the hell I'm talking about...
     
  15. Maertyn

    Maertyn There's nothing I cannot embrace! Veteran

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    And a lot of people I'm listening to talk about things I don't have a clue about. My friend studies biology, another one Japanese. Don't have a clue when they brag about their recently acquired knowledge. Does that make me dumb? Don't think so... as they have no idea about my studies either.
     
  16. Carcaroth

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    ST - 12 +1
    DEX - 12 +1
    CON - 11
    INT - 17 +3
    WIS - 15 +2
    CHR - 12 +1

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    Alertness, Combat Casting, Great Fortitude, Run

    Yes I have a high Inteligence, but I'm certainly not "World Class" for anything.
     
  17. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I think Gnarf was just kidding from the way the second sentence was worded. If our "common hobby" was rocket science, or brain surgery, or theoretical physics, or accounting ( :D ), then I would agree that much-higher-than-average intelligence is a prerequisite. But CRPG's? Or games in general? - I think not, unless it takes a high IQ to turn on a computer. (Not that I am suggesting that gamers are below average either.)

    *flame suit on* :p
     
  18. Carcaroth

    Carcaroth I call on the priests, saints and dancin' girls ★ SPS Account Holder

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    I agree about the use of "Demand"

    However I would say that Sci-fi/Fantasy geeks who got into rpg games due to their prefered reading material (sounds vaguely familiar for some reason) are likely to be of above average inteligence. The genre justs seems to attract 'em.
     
  19. chevalier

    chevalier Knight of Everfull Chalice ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran

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    They're also the people to read lots. And I mean lots. Thus likely to have some above average wisdom, although it's still not like book knowledge makes wisdom. Not directly at least. It surely gives a lot of insight, however, which is an important part of wisdom.

    Reading books when everyone else is playing football and deflorating classmates surely doesn't increase your STR or CON, though. :D
     
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    reepnorp Lim'n Lime Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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