Does David Blaine have an 18 CON?

[loki44]

I think so. Disagree?

 

[Nyaricus]

Quite possibly, but his Wisdom score is down in the darkest pit of the six-hundreth and sixty-sixth layer of the abyss.

 

[kenobi65]

Maybe when he got into the tank, he did.

 

[Nyaricus]

It really doesn't matter anyways. He failed his Sleight of Hand check, only to spend an Action Point to pass his Fortitude Save.

He's lucky his helpers decided to Aid Another.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not according to page 304 of the DMG he doesn't.

 

[WayneLigon]

No. The only people I can think of that could even start to qualify for an 18 Con would be Houdini and (if reports are to be beleived) Rasputin. Blaine has some pretty decent stats but also has a couple specialized Feats, a good Fort save, and some skill ranks more than he has 'great stats'.

 

[kenobi65]

Not according to page 304 of the DMG he doesn't.

He made it to, what, 7 minutes-plus?

Assuming an 18 Con, acc. to the DMG...

- He could automatically hold his breath for 36 rounds (3 minutes, 36 seconds)
- From that point forward, he starts making Con checks, starting at DC 10, and increasing by 1 for each round.
- Assuming he made it to 7 minutes, that's a total of 34 Con checks, with the last one being at DC 43.

However...assuming no magical assistance or weird Action Point stuff, in order to even have a chance of making a DC 43 Con check (i.e., on a 20), he'd need to have a Con score of 54! And, if his Con were 54, he wouldn't even need to start making Con checks until after holding his breath for 108 rounds (10 minutes, 48 seconds).

So...by the RAW...his Con is somewhere above 18.

 

[Vocenoctum]

He made it to, what, 7 minutes-plus?

Assuming an 18 Con, acc. to the DMG...

- He could automatically hold his breath for 36 rounds (3 minutes, 36 seconds)
- From that point forward, he starts making Con checks, starting at DC 10, and increasing by 1 for each round.
- Assuming he made it to 7 minutes, that's a total of 34 Con checks, with the last one being at DC 43.

However...assuming no magical assistance or weird Action Point stuff, in order to even have a chance of making a DC 43 Con check (i.e., on a 20), he'd need to have a Con score of 54! And, if his Con were 54, he wouldn't even need to start making Con checks until after holding his breath for 108 rounds (10 minutes, 48 seconds).

So...by the RAW...his Con is somewhere above 18.

I think he just had a lenient DM.

 

[Nyaricus]

I think he just had a lenient DM.

LOL

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

No. The only people I can think of that could even start to qualify for an 18 Con would be Houdini and (if reports are to be beleived) Rasputin. Blaine has some pretty decent stats but also has a couple specialized Feats, a good Fort save, and some skill ranks more than he has 'great stats'.

Rasputin survived multiple assassination attempts. One of his assassins was sent by Iliodor (the real mad monk), and was a very ugly lady. Pretending to beg for money, she attempted to follow Iliodor's order to castrate Rasputin. She stabbed him in the lower abdomen, but sent her knife upwards, rather than downwards. Holding his intestines into his guts with one hand, he beat her into unconsciousness with a stick. He didn't undergo surgery for a whole day, either, as his village had no doctor. He was transported by horse drawn cart!

The current president of the Ukraine might deserve a high Con. He was poisoned with 10,000 times the lethal dose of dioxin and, other than some facial scarring, is healthy. Another Slavic guy (whose name I can't remember) got into the newspapers for surviving several lethal situations, such as poison gas (when he was a child) and getting a nail driven into his brain. (Tough Slaves are a sterotype... but it really does sometimes seem like the truth.)

Carmine "the Snake" Persico literally ate a bullet shot at him. But the kind of underworld toughness is Jack "Legs" Diamond, who got the name "the Clay Pigeon of the Underworld" for the number of shots he survived. He was guarding his boss, "Little Augie", when two hitmen came out of the shade and shot the two of them. Diamond received bullet wounds to his legs and feet, but he was able to run away. (And I mean run, not "the hitmen were too busy to track him down and shoot him".) Augie didn't make it. Diamond survived shootings while he slept. He actually acted like he was invincible. Finally, he was whacked (again) while sleeping, but this time the hitmen stayed around to finish the job.

Remarked his rival Dutch Schultz in 1930: "Ain't there nobody what can shoot this guy so he don't bounce back?"

There was a guy in the Toronto Sun, in the Max Haines "true crimes" section, who survived being beaten by his wife. She attacked him with a hammer while he slept. He survived the CdG attempt, and didn't even realize that someone tried to kill him. His wife also kept poisoning his sandwiches that he took to lunch, but he kept sharing it with coworkers, spreading the dose around so no one was killed. I wish I still had that article - it was just weird.