Stat Yourself!

[Bagpuss]

I did this when I was in a bit of a depression on ENWorld's sister site...

I've gone for Don't Rest Your Head because I haven't been sleeping well recently.

My Name is.... Dave
And I am.... Middle-aged IT Technician.

What's been keeping you awake?

Worry, I've started to worry about everything, most of my life I've been pretty carefree, but with a wife and kids depending on me now, I worry about the slightest thing. Mainly I worry about money, how we are going to pay for everything, which is daft because the only debt we have is our mortgage and we actually save a bit each month, yet I still worry, about everything. If I'm driving I worry the car is about to break down, if it's windy I worry the roof will blow off the house. I lie in bed at night just thinking up new things to worry about. Usually little things that if I looked at them logically, we could easily sort out if they happened but sometimes big stuff that I could do nothing to stop, or prevent, like a plane crashing into my kids school.

What's just happened to you?

A plane has just crashed into my kids school. I was on my way to pick them up and now their gone, I mean literally gone, I foolishly ran into the wreckage and they aren't there, their are bodies so many bodies but I'm sure my kids aren't among them. Is that good or bad? I dropped them off that morning, the school would have called if they needed picking up, I worry about where they are now. But worse than that I worry that I caused the crash, just by imagining the worse thing that could happen.

What's of the surface?

Cool and calm, a pillar of strength to those that have problems around him, able to be a shoulder to cry on, lend a friendly ear, give sound advice and comfort. Totally laid back.

What lies beneath?

Doubt and fear. Doubt in myself and fear of failure. This leads to crippling inaction, which comes off on the surface as a laid back attitude. Worry about the thing I could have change but didn't due to this inaction just builds and builds, leading to the sleepless nights. The sleeplessness leads to more worry and more fear and more inaction, and more sleeplessness.

What's your path?

To come to accept the things he cannot change and actually change the things he can. Find his kids and restore his family again.

Responses
Fight 0 Flight 3

Exhaustion Talent

Can defeat any lock, hack any computer system.

Madness Talent

Things he worries about (just bad stuff) come true, but only seem to affect the people around him.

(1-2 dice) It can start to rain (especially if I don't have a coat) or get really windy. Someone could trip and suffer a minor injury. A door or gun is jammed, or they loose their wallet.

(3-4 dice) A gun missfires, car crashes, or some other serious accident.

(5-6 dice) Tsunami, hurricane, earthquakes, volanic erruptions, air crash, major stockmarket crash and other disasters occur.

 

[Janx]

You might find this quiz useful (for D&D ability scores only).

Re. your scores: I'm envious of you - you are above average in every respect except for Charisma.

I took the quiz

I call BS on John Crighton being 10 INT. the guy was an astronaut and designed his own ship.

Strength 10, Dexterity 16, Constitution 12, Intelligence 10, Wisdom 14, Charisma 12.

In self-editing the scores, I'm smarter than I am wise, and I'm wiser than the average person based on the unwise choices they make. I'd clock me at 13 INT and 11 WIS at least.

Among normal people, I am identified as the smartest person in the room. Among my friends, pretty much peer or just a slight edge. I probably clock in below genius, but well above average on an IQ scale.

I'm fairly dextrous, but 16 seems a bit high. Probably a 14-15 would be more realistic. My dart throwing skills have degraded (I used to soundly beat 3 players at a time in Cricket, that's my 3 darts to their 9).

Constitution, I'm fairly tough. I used to chop wood in 20 below weather and have to unzip my coat because I got too hot. I'd hike 2 miles for cough medicine in -40F weather for the girlfriend. I worked all day on a pinched nerve (that really hurt) and on a sprained ankle. I sunk a hayhook into my ankle and went back to work after cleaning it out with alcohol.

On Charisma, I can be charming, and have a way with words, and I am considered funny by other people. On the other hand, I am not diplomatic by default. So a 12 probably counts that in by lowering my score.

Strength is probably spot on. In my better shape days in college, I outlasted everybody in the PE fitness test on push-ups and sit-ups. But I was never particularly ripped or muscular.

 

[Quickleaf]

Who did you select? 20 INT is The Doctor, Mr. Fantastic, etc. Fictional superhero intelligence!

I went with Sherlock because that's how my mind seems to work - by deducing the unknown from what's known. Maybe I hould have picked Inspector Lestrand instead...
Did you take the quiz?

 

[Morrus]

I went with Sherlock

Wow!

Did you take the quiz?

I made the quiz!

 

[Quickleaf]

I made the quiz!

Then I salute your popular / geek culture knowledge. I only got around half the references!

 

[Kalontas]

The quiz claimed I'm 8 at everything except Int (which was 14). I think that Int might have been a bit too high, but ME having Con and Wis 8? You way overshot those two!

Otherwise, I guess I'm a neutral good/true neutral level 1 male halfling commoner. Halfling because I'm of... less than average height, and rather hairy. Commoner because as I keep saying about myself, I know something about everything, but I know everything about nothing. Maybe if there's some kind of Archivist NPC class I forgot about, I could fit as a history/mythology adept.

 

[Bagpuss]

I made the quiz!

Hmm before or after Lance Armstrong was outed for drug use?

 

[DnD_Dad]

STR - 12 I'm not that strong but I can lift my own weight, do pull ups/push ups etc.
CON - 12 I don't get sick, I can take a punch, and I can run at a continual pace(not jog) for a good amount of time.
DEX - 15 I'm good with my hands, I can juggle, I'm a NRA marksman(rifle/handgun) I don't get vertigo at all, I've been playing guitar for 16 years.
INT - 15 I remember everything I read, I'm on the Presidents List at College, and I have many different varying skills.
WIS - 16 I am aware of of my surroundings all the time. I headed response teams in RL counter-terrorist missions. I get a gut feeling about people immediately and I'm right most of the time.
CHA - 15 I make friends easily, I can get people to listen to me in a group situation and I've performed in numerous bands.

 

[ggroy]

What would be the INT stat for somebody like:

- Albert Einstein?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer?
- Richard Feynman?
- Stephen Hawking?
- Beavis?
- Butthead?
- Alfred E. Neuman?
- Bill Gates?
- Steve Jobs?

 

[tuxgeo]

I didn't take the EN World short-quiz about whom I most resemble because I don't recognize most of those references.

I have taken more-extensive online quizzes on this topic in the past, and I did record the scores that I received when I took them. (Take the following results with at least one grain of salt.)

1. "AD&D to Real Life Stats Calculator" (http://www.kevinhaw.com/add_quiz.shtml): STR 9, CON 5, DEX 12, INT 13, WIS 12, CHA 13 (?)

2. "Druid's Grove" (http://www.angelfire.com/dragon/terragf/): STR 6, CON 11, DEX 12, INT 14, WIS 16, CHA 15 (?)

Averaging those arrays: STR 8, CON 8, DEX 12, INT 14, WIS 14, CHA 14
In 3E's Point-Buy that is 0 + 0 + 4 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 22 (28 is Heroic)
In 4E's Point-Buy that is 0 - 2 + 2 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 15 (22 is Heroic)
(. . . so I'm 6 or 7 points short of being fully heroic. We expected this.)

(In averaging those, I went on the high side in combining STR 9 with STR 6 to get STR 8, and in combining INT 13 with INT 14 to get INT 14.)

Here are my own personal grains of salt:
1) STR: My strength is both higher and lower than that, because my legs are far stronger than my arms: I can easily leave many people behind on the stairs, but I can hardly do any pushups.
2) CON: Argh. I was sickly as a child. It involved necrolysis. (SJS/TENS)
3) DEX: I want it to be higher than this. It isn't. I'm working on that by trying to learn to play a musical instrument. ("Trying.")
4) INT: BA Mathematics; and US Army GT score 142, so that's about right.
5) WIS: No, I'm not "14" wise; however, I'm slightly well-read (dozens of books) about religion, mysticism, etc. -- but my understanding of such subjects is much more "broad" than "deep."
6) CHA: Me, persuasive? Use *several* grains of salt here. . . .