Jack7
First Post
I too feel that way, in many ways.
It makes a big difference.
Many of my friends often consider me a Paladin in nature and character (in game terms), but they are very wrong in that respect. I am really and would be in such a world far more a Ranger who does not give a flying possum s#&! about the law at all, in comparison to Justice.
But in such a world I would probably prefer to be a Cleric/Wizard, with my previous investigative abilities intact. So I would still also prefer to be part Ranger. which is one of the big problems to me with D&D. Classes are not really classes at all, but professions, and over the course of his life a man can do many things, and probably should. So the idea of just being one thing your whole life is rather silly to me as a professional idea (even in a Medieval World), and a game confusion with the idea of class where in such a world one might be a peasant his whole life. But peasant would be his class, not his profession, he could still work, as long as he could escape his feudal home, as a soldier, a priest, a scribe (if he could learn to read and write), a merchant, any number of things. In that case then I would be part Cleric, part Ranger, part Bard, part Wizard, and part Merchant or Businessman, Vadder and Explorer, and probably a proto-scientist. Possibly also some kind of professor or instructor or researcher eventually. Maybe not all at the same time, but certainly over the course of my life, assuming I lived that long. Life would be a lot harder and more dangerous in such a world.
As to ability scores, there is nothing really comparable in the real world, so I couldn't guess in reality. But overall my strength is probably a little above average (and I work out as much as I can and keep in shape), my wisdom and intelligence are probably above average too (I hope, but as everybody who knows anything about wisdom knows, you can never really be wise enough and you're never even close to being as wise as you think you are). My charisma is about average I reckon (my appearance is okay and I get along with most everybody usually), my dexterity is extremely limited due to previous injuries and wounds, so it would probably be low in comparison. Certainly low compared to my younger days. I'm pretty tough, but also pretty beat up in some ways, so my constitution would depend on what I was facing. My willpower is still pretty strong though. I've had a lot of experience though which makes me clever I think, and so I prefer laying ambushes to getting caught in them, so my constitution would mean less in importance to me than my cunning and ability to defeat enemies, problems, and dangerous situations by forethought and planning.
In real life I am now a writer and inventor. Mt previous background is in business brokerage, security, law enforcement (investigations), science, psychology and criminal psychology, and teaching. I plan, after retiring, and after my kids are married to become an Orthodox priest, something I've wanted to be since I was a very young man. But never really felt the time was right.
In a D&D world I would probably most miss science and technology.
In a D&D world as a cleric and wizard I would not only study theology and magic, but try to create and master science and technology. Especially things like physics and chemistry.
I would probably use magic and my studies of God to help me invent science, if it did not exist. If it did in a primitive form then I would experiment in physics, chemistry and biology.
I don't know what kinda algae I would be though.
Hanging moss? (that's a little inside joke folks)
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