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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8592388" data-attributes="member: 6987520">FWIW, I've played myself as a character twice (high school and graduate school).In high school, we had "tests" and "tasks" to try to figure out peoples' ability scores. It was fun, a bit silly, and meant to be light-hearted. Frankly, IIRC, we only had a couple 16's (out of 6 players), and less than a handful of 15's even, which in AD&D meant anything less really had little impact on your character.In grad school, we did a blind-entry system in a program I wrote. Each person rated the other 4 (5 PCs all told), and we averaged those ratings into the scores. Still an AD&D/2E hybrid, so most scores were low enough to not offer any major benefit, but we had a few that were better than before.Even with my current group, this option has come up for 5E, but we haven't done it yet.It can easily be done, but people have to be realistic and accept that for the most part--you--and your PC--will be fairly "average". For example, in my present group, I think the worst score would be an 8, and the best a 16 (but only one of those...). At any rate, few people IME can accept being pretty average....Yeah, nowadays this would be more appropriate. If you used the standard array, for example, and just rated yourself as far as best to worst ability.For example, for me with a 15,14,13,12,10,8, my best to worst abilities would be:INT 15CHA 14DEX 13CON 12STR 10WIS 8I am certainly not saying those are my scores IRL, but the order I would rate them in and the score they would be assigned.</blockquote>

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