A baby with class

[Pigeon]

We just had a baby boy. Yeah yeah, congratulations etc etc. But check this out:

Evan Hughes at 2 weeks old
Weight: 9lb 2oz – on the 90th percentile (heavier than 90% of all babies)
Height: 56cm – on the 100th percentile (taller than 100% of all babies)

There is no doubt about it; those are the stats for a Fighter. Oh sure, he’d make a pretty good Barbarian with those scores – but I don’t fancy him going into berserker rage every time he drops his sippy cup. No, Fighter it is. Maybe even a Paladin, but if he’s anything like his Dad his wisdom score won’t be high enough.

I’m quite glad in a way. For a start I won’t have to pay all those expensive Wizard guild tuition fees, nor will I have to watch my valuables as I would if he had been a thief. As for Druid or Ranger, quite frankly I don’t think I could have coped with having to clean up after the animal companion all the time. Sure it would be “I’ll take good care of him Dad” at the beginning – but as soon as the novelty wore off it would be muggings here left cleaning out the bear hutch every Saturday morning.

 

[TogaMario]

Congrats, and this has to be the funniest baby announcement I've ever read. Awesome work, on the kid and the post

-Tyler

 

[Hypersmurf]

Height: 56cm – on the 100th percentile (taller than 100% of all babies)

I assume you mean "taller than 100% of all other babies".

Otherwise you end up with some sort of infinite recursion, and crash to desktop.

-Hyp.

 

[Aurora]

Congrats! Great announcement BTW. The percentages can be wierd. They are different in different countries. Plus, my daughter is in the 110 percentile for her height- how does that work? Good height and good weight? Definitely a fighter or maybe a knight?

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Congrats! Great announcement BTW. The percentages can be wierd. They are different in different countries. Plus, my daughter is in the 110 percentile for her height- how does that work? Good height and good weight? Definitely a fighter or maybe a knight?

110th Percentile? How the heck does that work?

Olaf the Stout

 

[Aurora]

110th Percentile? How the heck does that work?

Olaf the Stout

EXACTLY my point! The system is wierd. I guess they have their statistics that a baby of a certain age is between "x" height and "y" height and mine just happens to be 10% taller than the tallest baby they had for that age when the "study" was done.....who knows man! All I know is that she didn't get her height from me

 

[Ferret]

Congrats on the baby! Funny post too!

Where'd you find these stats? I've looked in the back of the Players hand book, but I can't find them...are they in the other PHB? (Parents hand book?)

 

[Pigeon]

110th Percentile? How the heck does that work?

Olaf the Stout

Yeah, the rules are pretty broken all right. I'm waiting for the third edition to come out personally. I hear they are adding a feat you can take that makes them sleep through the night, which would be rather nifty.

 

[Hypersmurf]

110th Percentile? How the heck does that work?

It's bizarre. I googled '110th percentile', and found any number of references to babies being in that percentile for height and/or weight, but I can't find a definition of it!

-Hyp.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

EXACTLY my point! The system is wierd. I guess they have their statistics that a baby of a certain age is between "x" height and "y" height and mine just happens to be 10% taller than the tallest baby they had for that age when the "study" was done.....who knows man! All I know is that she didn't get her height from me

That's a plausible explanation. Either that or the medical system doesn't understand percentages!

Olaf the Stout