Characters with attribute penalties

[CRGreathouse]

I normally insist on my PCs having at least one negative stat for personality reasons i.e. "no one is perfect".

My wizard character had no negative stat modifiers - and no modifiers of 0, for that matter. He didn't subscribe to the "no one is perfect" theory, obviously; he was arrogant beyond belief.

 

[Breakstone]

I played a half-orc barbarain with an Int 6 but a Cha 14. Fun guy, but not too smart. He used to have staring contests with statues and chase the monk's squirrel while gleefully laughing.

Fun dude.

 

[hong]

My wizard character had no negative stat modifiers - and no modifiers of 0, for that matter. He didn't subscribe to the "no one is perfect" theory, obviously; he was arrogant beyond belief.

...thus (inadvertently? deliberately?) demonstrating the truth of the assertion.

 

[madriel]

We recently rolled up characters to play in a series of one-off games. My rogue has good stats, all between 12-16 except for an 8 Cha. I play her as being slightly shy and easily bullied by the other party members. She's easier to roleplay than my kicka** cleric converted from 2e, whose worst stat is 13.

 

[Grendel]

Try point buy, even with 32 point buy it is common to get penalty stats. With a 25 point buy its almost garunteed.

 

[TheTaxMan]

I once played a 10'th lvl 1/2orc barbarian for a session that had massive strength and con, but had about 6 int and wis. We were stuck in front of a door with a wierd gas that happened to start killing us whenever we approached it. While the paladin and sorceror were trying to open the door, I proceeded to play "catch and throw the sheep" in the fields outside.

I think we finally got through the door through a rather silly measure.."Me bash door!" and a lucky con save from the paladin and I

Oh, and I also used an oxen as a mount

 

[MerricB]

Hmm... in the two campaigns I run, there are two characters with scores of 7. You must understand that this campaign uses 5d6 take highest three to generate scores, so 7 is _low_.

OTOH, very few 18s or higher except for the high-level characters that have bought gear and spent their increases.

The one character that _did_ have two 18s died permanently in his first session.

I don't get to play much, but back when I did in the last days of 1E, I played a gnome illusionist with a 5 Wisdom.

Theodones was great fun to play, especially when he became besotted with the female elf who had a Comeliness of 22 or so. It irritated the elf's player even more, which of course made it even better!

Cheers!