Which ability score can you not live without?

[Old One]

INT here too...just love those extra skill points !

Even my brutish half-orc warrioress has above-average smarts !

~ Old One

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

CON - I dont' want to be undead!

 

[Kormydigar]

Whenever I make a character, I find there is one ability score that has to be high. That is INT. I don't know what it is, but I have extreme difficulties playing a stupid character.

Is there an ability that you repeatedly put a high number into during character creation? Why or why not?

I love to play stupid characters once in awhile. I voted for CON because no matter what race, or class you play its all about the hit points in the end.

 

[Tarondor]

Wisdom!

Now, there isn't a stat that I don't have respect for, but personally, I've gotta have a high wisdom. Partially, this is because I like to play clerics, but mostly it's because I hate failing Will saves. If you fail a Fort or Ref save, you wind up injured. If you fail a Will save, you wind up doing nothing, or worse, doing someone else's bidding. Blech!

 

[Alhazred]

There's no ability in which consistently has a high score. I like to have a respectable CON (between 13 and 15 at creation, into which the first stat bump goes). If possible, I like a high INT (skill points, and I often play wizards) and CHA (since I generally play friendly characters). WIS is always the dump stat (unless I'm playing a divine spellcaster, which is almost never). DEX and STR depend on how martial the character is, and whether he employs melee or ranged attacks (I seldom play martial characters, so this is seldom a problem). My current dwarf evoker has a 19 INT and 16 CON and, between fireballs, haste spells and his magical urgrosh, can lay down the smack quite nicely.

The character which I am about the create, for a d20 Future game, will have a high DEX and CHA (he's a professional soldier/ranged weapons expert who is also the ship's commander).

 

[Snow Savant]

Interesting.

The two most high-powered core class archetypes in 3.5 D&D are Cleric and Druid ... yet WIS is the least-popular stat in the survey.

Perhaps powergamers truly are on the descent ...

 

[Alloran]

Charisma. Charisma, charisma, charisma. I've seen terrible things done (as a DM) with high Cha, and they're just fun to play. ^_^

 

[Sado]

Comeliness.

One ability score for charisma wasn't enough.

 

[Gez]

I never put a score below 10 in Constitution, Inteliigence, or Wisdom; but they are not necessarily high.

In fact, the only ability score that is often low in my characters is Strength, because I like to play rogues or wizards more than fighters or clerics.

But the other ability scores can be anywhere. There's none that I try to never have low.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I've found that my characters need to have at least average Cha and Int, and one of the two must be decent. Ideally both are quite high (as with my Succubus).