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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8771266" data-attributes="member: 50987">Well in my defense, I intended for this tread to be an athletics appreciation thread.&nbsp; I started out comparing real-world athletes to the fantasy dragons of D&amp;D, and commenting on how much more powerful and impressive these athletes were than the game's most powerful monsters.&nbsp; But this is a gaming forum on the internet, so the thread quickly shifted to &quot;let's create a Mike Powell character sheet.&quot;Should have seen that coming.I don't know how to do Intelligence...and I imagine all attempts would be deeply offensive.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But I was able to map Constitution to a real-world analog, through the rule about holding one's breath. Check it out in <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-does-a-strength-20-look-like-in-real-life.687517/post-8605339" target="_blank">Post #9.</a>&nbsp; It's even more bananas than Strength!But I think that the biggest take-away (if there can be such a thing) is that in 5th Edition D&amp;D, your ability scores don't matter as much as you think they do.&nbsp; You are rolling a d20 and adding the result to your roll--effectively a &quot;bonus&quot; of +1 to +20--and that &quot;bonus&quot; will swamp all other bonuses most of the time.&nbsp; Or to look at it from the other side of the equation, that d20 result is going to remove anywhere between 30 and 600 pounds from that barbell.&nbsp; So, yeah.&nbsp; The dice almost always determine the result...not your ability score.&nbsp; I wrote that all out <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-does-a-strength-20-look-like-in-real-life.687517/post-8605844" target="_blank">a few posts later</a>.I'm a fitness buff, and I'm a gaming nerd, and I'm a math geek...so this is one of my favorite threads.&nbsp; The discussions have been really interesting (and weird).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 8771266, member: 50987"] Well in my defense, I intended for this tread to be an athletics appreciation thread. I started out comparing real-world athletes to the fantasy dragons of D&D, and commenting on how much more powerful and impressive these athletes were than the game's most powerful monsters. But this is a gaming forum on the internet, so the thread quickly shifted to "let's create a Mike Powell character sheet." Should have seen that coming. I don't know how to do Intelligence...and I imagine all attempts would be deeply offensive. :) But I was able to map Constitution to a real-world analog, through the rule about holding one's breath. Check it out in [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-does-a-strength-20-look-like-in-real-life.687517/post-8605339']Post #9.[/URL] It's even more bananas than Strength! [B]But I think that the biggest take-away[/B] (if there can be such a thing) is that in 5th Edition D&D, [U]your ability scores [/U][I][U]don't matter as much as you think they do[/U][/I]. You are rolling a d20 and adding the result to your roll--effectively a "bonus" of +1 to +20--and that "bonus" will swamp all other bonuses most of the time. Or to look at it from the other side of the equation, that d20 result is going to remove anywhere between 30 and 600 pounds from that barbell. So, yeah. The dice almost always determine the result...not your ability score. I wrote that all out [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-does-a-strength-20-look-like-in-real-life.687517/post-8605844']a few posts later[/URL]. I'm a fitness buff, and I'm a gaming nerd, and I'm a math geek...so this is one of my favorite threads. The discussions have been really interesting (and weird). [/QUOTE]

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