Random Thoughts 9: Attack of the Vapid Posts

[Timsup2nothin]

Considering myself average in intelligence and wisdom was me over-scoring.

If you actually believe that you need to get out among the stupid masses more.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

What is constitution?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Not really

Yes really. You might think I am wrong, but that is how I find you to be.

What is constitution?

A numerical representation of general healthiness. Strength refers to how well you can bull through a door, agility measures the likelihood that you won't trip and fall when it gives, and constitution measures how quickly you will recover from the bruising and splinters you pick up in the process.

 

[Cutlass]

I'm seriously tempted to start GMing a game with half a dozen of you as the party.

https://app.roll20.net/sessions/new

 

[Arakhor]

Intelligence: 16 - I'm fairly smart, no genius.

It behoves me to point out that "fairly smart" could easily be described by Int 14 too. Even at Int 16, you're into the "noticeably smart, even by people who hardly know you" category.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It behoves me to point out that "fairly smart" could easily be described by Int 14 too. Even at Int 16, you're into the "noticeably smart, even by people who hardly know you" category.

Back at the 3d6...a 16 or above puts you close to the 1 in 20 mark and you will certainly stand out in a crowd. Just dropping to 15 makes it more like one in eight so in any reasonable sized group (like a school class of thirty) you are very unlikely to be the smartest kid in the room. You'll be the high end of the vast middle...which is still in the vast middle.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Strength: 8
Dexterity: 12
Intelligence: 18
Constitution: 10
Wisdom: 7
Charisma: The dice went on strike.

 

[Arakhor]

Back in secondary school, I was told that my IQ (recorded as 152 at that point) put me in the top 0.5% of the population (statistically an 18 or so on 3d6), but also of course that since there were so few people as smart as (or smarter than) me, that was a very inexact rating, even by the standards of professional IQ tests.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Back in secondary school, I was told that my IQ (recorded as 152 at that point) put me in the top 0.5% of the population (statistically an 18 or so on 3d6), but also of course that since there were so few people as smart as (or smarter than) me, that was a very inexact rating, even by the standards of professional IQ tests.

The tests are designed to provide fine differentiation across the "normal" range.

 

[Arakhor]

Sadly, I've never been normal.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Sadly, I've never been normal.

Was it really important to you to be finely differentiated?

My high school just took everyone measured 141 and above and put us in "gifted" classes, which we annoyed teachers and administration alike by calling "special ed." In there the numbers didn't really matter because we very quickly determined for ourselves who stood out from the "slow kids." I often wonder how badly scarring it was for a kid who was actually a borderline genius to get segregated out and thrown in a class where they were doomed to being "a slow kid."

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Sadly, I've never been normal.

We love you anyway.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

We love you anyway.

Quit trying to butter up the moderato...

Oh.

Wait.

 

[Takhisis]

https://app.roll20.net/sessions/new

Are you in? I've never used that place before.
@cardgame?

Also, who else is in?

 

[cardgame]

roll20 is one of the best for online dnd, or so I hear. I could be talked in, depending who else is in and what kind of mood we're going for (comedy > seriousness)

 

[Takhisis]

I've never GMed for D&D so it's a trip I'm totally willing to take. I've lost all freelance work except translating *one* short story for an anthology, and publication of that is ‘whenever we're no longer in quarantine’ so I need something to do other than help my mother teach over the Internet. She looks like a gamer in pyjamas, reading glasses and a headset. Give me something to do.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Back in secondary school, I was told that my IQ (recorded as 152 at that point) put me in the top 0.5% of the population (statistically an 18 or so on 3d6), but also of course that since there were so few people as smart as (or smarter than) me, that was a very inexact rating, even by the standards of professional IQ tests.

I just did a few of those dumd online out of boredom years ago.
The best result I ever had was 145 when i took the test drunk. Shows you how good the tests are, or maybe I'm "better" if I dn't overthink and rely on intuition.

OK, let's talk alignments. I think I'm drifting towards Lawful Evil.

 

[H4run]

Using online video-call application name zoom, it's so good, so easy to use, so clear, I wish I know this earlier!

 

[amadeus]

Took an IQ test once. Scored 98. Almost a perfect score!

 

[Arakhor]

I just did a few of those dumd online out of boredom years ago.
The best result I ever had was 145 when i took the test drunk. Shows you how good the tests are, or maybe I'm "better" if I dn't overthink and rely on intuition.

This was in the mid-90s, so it definitely wasn't an Internet test.