brightgoat
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My current character is a unarmed fighter with a wisdom of 6. The other players have come to fear the dreaded words 'I open the door', and 'I punch it'
Characters with attribute penalties
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reapersaurus
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in my eyes, it's really hard to imagine any PC with a score under 6 as anything except resembling a cartoon character.
Then you get the problem of people roleplayting the low INT, WIS, or CHA almost interchangeably.
Interesting that it's really not that bad to have a low str or dex as a mage, but even as a fighter-type, the low int, wis, and cha always bites ya in the ass
Then you get the problem of people roleplayting the low INT, WIS, or CHA almost interchangeably.
Interesting that it's really not that bad to have a low str or dex as a mage, but even as a fighter-type, the low int, wis, and cha always bites ya in the ass
My party includes a dwarven cleric with an 8 Charisma and a 6 Dexterity. Oh, and he refuses to wear Medium or Heavy armor because, and I quote, "A 20' move is already too slow." 
Fortunately, he has a high Con, and got some good hit point rolls, because he soaks up a hell of a lot of damage.
We cheer whenever he doesn't go last on initiative, or hits something with a ranged weapon. And we groan whenever we run into undead. (2 turn attempts per day, and -1 on the turning check ...)
Fortunately, he has a high Con, and got some good hit point rolls, because he soaks up a hell of a lot of damage.We cheer whenever he doesn't go last on initiative, or hits something with a ranged weapon. And we groan whenever we run into undead. (2 turn attempts per day, and -1 on the turning check ...)
Christian said:My party includes a dwarven cleric with an 8 Charisma and a 6 Dexterity. Oh, and he refuses to wear Medium or Heavy armor because, and I quote, "A 20' move is already too slow."
We cheer whenever he doesn't go last on initiative, or hits something with a ranged weapon. And we groan whenever we run into undead. (2 turn attempts per day, and -1 on the turning check ...)
The nice thing about D&D is that most any problem can be solved by throwing money at it (a reflection of our times?). Has he given thought to buying 1) a mithral breastplate; 2) gloves of Dex; 3) a disruption weapon? Okay, so he'll be hocked up to his eyeballs, but that just gives more incentive to go adventuring.
Storminator
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I've got the lowest stat PC so far. STR 5 DEX 7 CON 9 WIS 9, conjurer. High stat: INT 16.
My 14 yr old son is the DM, and every PC he "rolls" is absurd. He tried to convince me that the batch of 4 PCs he really rolled really had no stat lower than 12, and the only one without an 18 had two 17s. So when he DMed for us I accepted the very first PC I rolled. So I've got a slow, weak, foolish, clumsy, overweight, out of shape bookworm wizard!
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My 14 yr old son is the DM, and every PC he "rolls" is absurd. He tried to convince me that the batch of 4 PCs he really rolled really had no stat lower than 12, and the only one without an 18 had two 17s. So when he DMed for us I accepted the very first PC I rolled. So I've got a slow, weak, foolish, clumsy, overweight, out of shape bookworm wizard!
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novyet
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I've rolled up two characters for 3e (mostly we use point buy, but for a couple of one shots we rolled.)
Check this guy out...
Percival Mayweather, Human Fighter 3
Str 5, Dex 13, Con 6, Int 14, Wis 9, Cha 8
Surprisingly he made a decent fighter, he'd just "advise" people, and shoot everything with a crossbow.
The other character was...
Hildagard, Half Orc Monk 4
Str 20, Dex 11(12 @ 4th level), Con 3 , Int 8, Wis 15, Cha 4
She was a blast to play, her idea was to hit things so hard that they couldn't hit her back, because she could dish it out but couldn't take it. She had like 8 hp at 4th level. It was hilarious, because she outlived the rest of the party.
Check this guy out...
Percival Mayweather, Human Fighter 3
Str 5, Dex 13, Con 6, Int 14, Wis 9, Cha 8
Surprisingly he made a decent fighter, he'd just "advise" people, and shoot everything with a crossbow.
The other character was...
Hildagard, Half Orc Monk 4
Str 20, Dex 11(12 @ 4th level), Con 3 , Int 8, Wis 15, Cha 4
She was a blast to play, her idea was to hit things so hard that they couldn't hit her back, because she could dish it out but couldn't take it. She had like 8 hp at 4th level. It was hilarious, because she outlived the rest of the party.
d12
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I find that a combination of high and low attribute scores can give you hints on how to roleplay a PC - In my gaming group there was a half-orc fighter with a Wis 16, Int 10 and Cha 7. We decided that he wasn't a very likable person but was wise enough to realise his weakness, therefore he tended to lead by example and when he wanted to communiacte to an NPC, he would usually do so by wispering or signaling to a PC with a higher charisma score. At the gaming table whoever played the half-orc ended up wispering in the ears of the player running the "leader" PC.
Also, since he had a high wisdom, we put a few ranks into heal and he ended up saving the whole party by dealing the killing blow to a red dragon and then stopping everyone else from bleeding to death.
Also, since he had a high wisdom, we put a few ranks into heal and he ended up saving the whole party by dealing the killing blow to a red dragon and then stopping everyone else from bleeding to death.
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