D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

A wizard with 2 hp + 1 per level. Who should never get hit.

I think con should not be a stat anymore. Or at least not influence total hp. There are no skills attached to it. Maybe it should affect starting hp and recovery. Not HP each level.

Maybe I will try at some point:
HP = max hd * level + con modifier only at level 1.

Level 1 will still be hard for a wizard, but at later levels, it will be ok. Although recovering hit points with short rests will be hard.

Draw Steel got rid of Constitution, for example. It has only Might, Agility, Reason, Intuition and Presence.

4E had Endurance and 3E had Concentration as Constitution skills, I think that was it.
4E used Constitution for some classes (Warlock for example), however. (I think 3E did for some of the Psionic Classes or powers, IIRC?)

 

[Clint_L]

If there isn't, there 100% should be...or at least an extremely strong suggestion.

And IMO the role-playing needs to suggest the bolded.

To add I context, I wrote, "Also, plenty of dumb people think they’re smart, bores think they’re charismatic, wimps think they’re tough, fools think they’re wise, and so on. The rolls will be what the rolls will be."

Let me build on that: I don't think policing whether players are properly RPing according to their ability scores is a good idea, but I also think that, with the type of extremely low scores this thread is about, the scores police themselves.

Let's imagine a player who decides to play their barbarian, Int. 3, like they're Sherlock Holmes. Every time they roll an investigation check, they are going to fail. There will be a massive disjunction between what they are saying and what their character is actually doing, and they will know it and so will everyone else at the table.

Sherlock the Barbarian: "This lock can probably only be opened by solving this series of cleverly interlocking tiles. I'm on it!"

Watson the Wizard: "You bet, Sherlock. Ummm...let me just "assist" you a bit with that..." [Both players roll. Sherlock rolls a -2, Watson rolls an 18].

Party: "Way to go, Sherlock! You've done it again!"

Everyone knows what just happened. All laugh. "Oh, that Sherlock!"

 

[ECMO3]

Looks like I have a 3 Intelligence .... unless I am a Wizard and then it is a 3 Charisma.