Real Life Stats

[fuindordm]

Even worse than the ones who don't give themselves a stat below 10 are those who don't give themselves a stat above 11. Do you really see yourself as so... average? In every way?

Except for the sad Strength score. I feel for you, my friend...

Maybe they're only 12 years old?

But seriously, there are many ways to be exceptional that simply aren't represented in stats. Where do you fit generosity, humor, and loyalty?

Ben

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Even worse than the ones who don't give themselves a stat below 10 are those who don't give themselves a stat above 11. Do you really see yourself as so... average? In every way?

Except for the sad Strength score. I feel for you, my friend...

Me too.

Okay, so maybe my INT is 12 at the most.

 

[shilsen]

Last time I statted myself out, Crothian made the comment in my sig

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Last time I statted myself out, Crothian made the comment in my sig

Well, he was right. You ARE broken.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

OT: Yes! Me and Shilsen did it again!

 

[genshou]

OT: Yes! Me and Shilsen did it again!

Gwaaaah!

 

[genshou]

Last time I statted myself out, Crothian made the comment in my sig

What were those stats? Are you as broken as I am?

 

[S'mon]

Problem is, even non-magically, it's possible for people to be smarter than an 18 Intelligence, and there are people who are measurably more rare than 1-in-216. We need to have some way of measuring >18 Intelligence, especially if we're going to use IQ as the standard.

My last IQ test scored me as at least one standard deviation above 145-- it wasn't designed to measure higher than that. And I'm not particularly convinced that I'm much smarter than a 16 or 17.

Well, in 3e you can extrapolate up, 2 points INT is 10 points IQ, roughly, if INT 18 is IQ 145 and you are IQ 165 your INT would be 22 in 3e. In 1e it would just be a high 18.

 

[S'mon]

Ig. No it doesn't. Beyond this point we get on the verge of politics, so I won't go farther. But as an educator, I have to strongly disagree with the above statement.

I said "commonly understood" - ie IQ measures Intelligence as the concept of Intelligence is usually understood by the general population. Many educationists prefer not to use this commonly understood concept, because the concept of Intelligence is more controversial than Strength or Dexterity, for reasons that it would be 'political' to discuss.

 

[S'mon]

I think most Roleplayers exaggerate their "own stats"...I mean, we feel bad enough about having no social life, but to admit that we have a bad set of stats, that'd just be too much for most of us.

Well, I think D&Ders are a highly selective subset of the population with well above average INT, but lower CHA than average and probably lower STR DEX & CON too; and D&Ders WIS will be relatively low compared to INT than for a general population of high-INT people. I think this means that D&Ders compare themselves to other D&Ders, not to the general population, and then underrate their INT while overrating their other stats.