Str: 11
Int: 13
Wis: 18
Dex: 13
Con: 11
Chr: 14
Hrm lets see. I'd say the Str is about right. I'd beg to differ with the Int ranking given me. It's a bit low given my capabilities. However I know better than to get into the whole IQ / INT argument.
The wis score it gave me was a bit of a shocker. If I had to rank myself I would give myself a score around 15 or 16. I don't view myself as very wise, I think I just don't do very stupid things, have common sense, have a good amount of willpower, refrain from letting other people talk me into doing things I don't want to do, and I'm ever so slightly misanthropic. I don't feel that I have any great insight, just a healthy dose of common sense, an ability to look at myself objectively, and healthy self-esteem.
The dex seems reasonably accurate. I've praciticed martial arts for a while and am reasonably skilled at video and computer games. I also paint miniatures. However I do stumble once in a while (I usually catch myself). However I can't juggle or do sleight of hand tricks. So Dex 13 seems to be me.
My Con of 11 I guess seems accurate. I can hold up in a fight, I rarely get sick, and I hardly ever need medicine. However I am mildly asthmatic, and get winded after a moderate amount of exertion. I am able to continue exerting myself, but its more will that keeps me going than constitution.
Charisma 14, seems a bit off in certain ways. I am generally found attractive by members of the opposite sex. I have many friends of both sexes. People have fought over me in public, I get invitations to a fair amount of social events even though I am very antisocial, and I am known to be rather witty and charming.
However I have only one person that I can confide in (My girlfriend, whom I trust in all matters). Aside from that there is no one I share anything but superficial matters with. I have numerous acquantinces, but few real friends. I have a reputation for being weird, after all I am a gamer, geek, goth, that dresses oddly by most peoples standards, I'm a guy that wears makeup and all sorts of things that most people find strange. I would argue that these traits show that I am self assured and secure in myself, which is largely what CHA in 3e is based upon.
I am never turned down when I ask people out, the reason being that I rarely ask people out. That makes is hard to turn me down. For the other questions, I am a skilled debater and am able to win most every argument I get into, even if I have to resort to semantic games.
People confide in me and ask my advice, but I would say that that has little to do with cha. My acquaintences and friends come to me, because I am a good listener, and dispense common sense. I essentially lay out their options, tell them the pros and cons of each action, and tell them that they must decide what is best for them to do. I'd say that ties more into WIS or INT than CHA.
And people who have never so much as seen me before have obeyed orders that I have given, because according to the people I socialize with my voice is very distinctive, I speak in a very proper manner, and the way I accenuate my words my voice is rather forceful. I also carry myself in a very proud, assured way, and my body language radiates command. However the latter is a very recent development given that little more than a year back I used to slouch and avoid dealing with other people. I've just become much more comfortable with myself, and have stopped being so hypercritical of myself.
So whats the moral of all this. Well, one silly tests can keep you occupied when you're bored. Two, there are exceptions and inconsistencies in every form of test. Three, you cannot base a person off of numbers.
The third point is quite important to me. As I am in my first year of college, people frequently remark that I am very intellegent and inquire what score I recieved on the SATs. When I tell them the number they are impressed, remark on how close to a perfect score it is, and tell me again that I am very intellegent.
My response is, "Its only a number. Don't judge me based on it." I don't want to be judged based on my SAT score, or an IQ number, or a GPA, or any other number. I want to be judged on how I interact with other people. How I speak, how I carry myself, how I learn, how I teach others. I want to be judged on who I am as a person, not what numbers say that I am.
And its all well and good to quantify. We need objective data for somethings. But we should not use numbers to the exclusion of all other things.
And thats just my two cents... coming of course from a person with an 18 wisdom and 14 charisma
oh well
