Real Life Stats

[Aeric]

Any kind of avatar gaming can do without the mental stats since you're playing yourself. If Aeric the player doesn't know something, Aeric the character wouldn't know it either.

Charisma is a bit more circumstantial, however. A lot of people, myself included, are more comfortable conversing with their friends than they are with total strangers.

 

[domino]

And another question is, how do we work with stats that do double duty?

Wisdom for instance. To use myself as an example, it's hard to change my mind if I don't want to. But I also tend to be nigh oblivious to the world around me.

Or Con. I'm hardly ever sick. But I wouldn't be able to keep up a sprint for very long at all.

Or someone who is very nimble and graceful, but mentally slow enough to have poor reaction time to things?

 

[Hodgie]

I think you've struck onto something that bridges the two camps. The people who are tossing around 18's on this and that are probably quite talented in specific areas, and then using those areas to measure. The people who are giving more conservative numbers are probably looking at all of their respective strengths and weaknesses on a subject and figuring what that would be.

I really doubt that anyone would score significantly above average (assuming average to be 25) on _everyone's_ scale.

 

[LordBOB]

What other methods could be used? Of course, the system has it's failings. It breaks down pretty fast for me... I have a max bench press of 125lbs, so I'm betting my max overhead is no more than 100lbs. So, my str is 10. But I can easily jump 2' from a standing start, DC 16, and I have had little formal training in jumping (does a year of ballet once a week count?) so I could have a str between 14 and 18.

Well than i would have about a Str.23 cause my max brench press is roughly 275lbs
Dex would be about 14-15
Constitution would be about 18
Int. about 12-13
Wis. about 13-14
Char. bout 13-14

Im not fast but im tough as hell....i have a little above average looks ( according to some people). im not a super genious but i know enough to keep me alive. I also have more common sense than most of the people i know ( dont know what stat that would be). I think the Dex and the Const. could both be at least 18 (maybe) cause i can take a beaten on keep on going. My base land speed would be roughly 15 cause im just not fast on my feet. No im Not trying to make myself look better thn everyone else....i didnt even read what other people would be. Just letting you know what i think i would be. Ill admit that im no ladies man but everyone in my town knows me by name and knows where i live ( kinda spooky). The ladies like me but they only think of me as a "Big Brother" cause im always there for them and i have a big shoulder for them to cry on. My best qualities would be the abillity to make everyone around me laugh at the right time which is probably why they all see me as their "Big Brother".

I know that you all dont believe me and honestly i dont care what you think.... I am who i am and i dont have to exaggerate just b/c its the internet.

 

[LordBOB]

"The difference between a smart person and a wise person is that a smart person knows what to say and a wise person knows whether or not to say it."

A word from BOB

 

[CyberSpyder]

As someone posting on the internet, I am of course significantly above average in all personal characteristics.

 

[ThirdWizard]

All my stats are 18s.

What can I say? I'm perfect in every way.

I'm also dating three supermodels and drive a different sports car every day. No, really.

 

[Rel]

I think I can confidently say that anybody here who gives themselves an 18 in any stat is either overestimating themselves, or downright full of it.

I've never claimed to be anything short of downright full of it.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

I've never claimed to be anything short of downright full of it.

Heh. Isn't your capacity to be full of it-- and get away with it-- a measure of Intelligence and Charisma?

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

I think I can confidently say that anybody here who gives themselves an 18 in any stat is either overestimating themselves, or downright full of it.

There are 32 000 members of this website.

That means, straight odds-- the rules we use for NPC cannon fodder, not heroes-- that 148 of us should have an Intelligence score of 18. Some 889 of us, on average, will have some score of 18.

That's not adjusting for the fact that we're not actually a straight demographic sample. For instance, to post here, a person generally has to understand the concept of roleplaying games, and they have to be capable of reading and writing the English language at around the sixth-grade level. (Rough guess.) That's going to rule out those of us with Intelligence scores between 3 and 5 at least, and possibly between 3 and 7.

Now, you might point out that, as a forum dedicated to a geek hobby, we're probably going to have smaller physical ability scores than the general population. On the other hand, martial arts is also a geek hobby-- and a disportionate number of roleplayers are members of the armed forces, meaning that they're required to uphold a rather more strict physical standard.

Of course, I have no way of measuring or modeling what effect that will have on our demographics-- but considering there's far fewer than 889 posts on this thread, and only a couple of people have seriously claimed to have an 18 in anything, we're far short of our quota.