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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 3597784" data-attributes="member: 14451">It wasn't one person who came up with the scoring system, we all agreed on how to score it.  INT was based on your IQ, as is stated somewhere in one of the AD&D books, STR was based on how much you could dead press (the first version delt with a squat test too and at the time, on a leg press machine I could press over 1,000lbs for 8 reps.  Ending up with odd results, we switched it to just a dead press), CON was determined by how far you could run non stop, (one guy got an 18 because he ran a 23 mile marathon and then ran for the cross country team the next day, that was kind of our standard for the highest CON) hmm, I think we had a quiz to determine WIS.  What would you do in this situation kind of thing, Dex was a combination of things, there was a juggling portion, which I failed (if left to that I would have a 3 DEX), then a card stacking game and something else I can't remember off hand.  I did great on the cards, a little better than average on the other and shameful on juggling.  CHR was based on the other players.  They all got to vote on what your CHR was and then the scores were averaged.The system, like any, wasn't perfect, but it worked okay for heros in AD&D.  I also did really well, while others I know who took it (and thought them better than me), did worse.I got the highest STR, Steve got the highest CON and the only 18.  Pretty much everyone got mostly 10 or higher (10 being the average human score).  There was one guy who got a 7 on DEX, and that was because after letting him take the test many times, we felt sorry for laughing at him <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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