What's your dump stat?
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Creamsteak
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Wisdom is my dump stat more often than charisma, because I tend to play the group leader. Bad habbit o mine is to build a fighter with an 18 in charisma and a 15 in strength... very bad habit as it tends to get you killed when your fightin undead and constructs. I don't get to play enough.
Undead Pete
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Charisma....simply because it's so much fun to play characters with low charismas....and there are so many different ways to play it.
[Tangent]I once played a character in 2E with a 4 Charisma....a Wemic Fighter/Witchdoctor (from Complete Book of Humanoids) named Ciroc Banemane. For 6 months I got to use the worst feline jokes (coughing up a hairball in the midst of battle...rancid fish breath...marking my territory) UNTIL my DM decides to drop a Deck of Many Things in our midst. Of course I draw the card that gave me a keep and AN 18 CHARISMA!!. Talk about changing the character 180 degrees
. We decided that that his personaility hadn't changed much, but his new blinding attractiveness and exquisite hygiene caused people to ignore that he was still a prick. Quite fun, indeed.[/Tangent]
[Tangent]I once played a character in 2E with a 4 Charisma....a Wemic Fighter/Witchdoctor (from Complete Book of Humanoids) named Ciroc Banemane. For 6 months I got to use the worst feline jokes (coughing up a hairball in the midst of battle...rancid fish breath...marking my territory) UNTIL my DM decides to drop a Deck of Many Things in our midst. Of course I draw the card that gave me a keep and AN 18 CHARISMA!!. Talk about changing the character 180 degrees
. We decided that that his personaility hadn't changed much, but his new blinding attractiveness and exquisite hygiene caused people to ignore that he was still a prick. Quite fun, indeed.[/Tangent]
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One thing that struck me when reading this was that, despite the times when it might make a lot of sense, I virtually never put a low stat into Int. The reason for this is that I'm a pretty smart guy (I'm not trying to brag, but I do have a decent gift for problem solving and especially strategic and tactical thought) and I'm only a marginal role-player. I cannot stand to sit by and play a dumb character when the smart choice seems so obvious to me as a player.
That doesn't mean that all my characters are geniuses either (since I'm not a genius, that's even harder to roleplay than a dummy). But I rarely put a stat lower than a 10 in Int.
Oddly enough, I tend to put a higher score in for the types of characters you wouldn't think of needing good Int. scores. Especially fighters. With only 2 skill points per level for the class, if I put a 14 in Int., I've doubled my available skill points at each level.
I use the same reasoning for Con. My fighter types rarely have higher than a 12 Con. They already have good Fort saves so they don't need the bonus for that. And if I'm rolling a d10 for hit points, that +1 hit point only represents a 10% increase over my maximum potential hit points each level. But for a Wizard, a 16 Con means that I can increase my hit points by at least 75% EVERY LEVEL!
In many ways this might be backwards thinking and perhaps I should be looking with more of an eye toward accentuating my positives. But hey, it makes for interesting characters.
That doesn't mean that all my characters are geniuses either (since I'm not a genius, that's even harder to roleplay than a dummy). But I rarely put a stat lower than a 10 in Int.
Oddly enough, I tend to put a higher score in for the types of characters you wouldn't think of needing good Int. scores. Especially fighters. With only 2 skill points per level for the class, if I put a 14 in Int., I've doubled my available skill points at each level.
I use the same reasoning for Con. My fighter types rarely have higher than a 12 Con. They already have good Fort saves so they don't need the bonus for that. And if I'm rolling a d10 for hit points, that +1 hit point only represents a 10% increase over my maximum potential hit points each level. But for a Wizard, a 16 Con means that I can increase my hit points by at least 75% EVERY LEVEL!
In many ways this might be backwards thinking and perhaps I should be looking with more of an eye toward accentuating my positives. But hey, it makes for interesting characters.
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