[RD] Your Personal Stats

[Synobun]

I'm putting an RD tag on this to prevent joke stat replies (joke replies themselves are fine, just not when offering your own stats; so no "1, 1, 1, 1, etc" or "20, 20, 20, 20, etc" replies pls). I will rat on you to the cops. Snitches get medals.

What stats would you give yourself in an honest self-assessment?

Assume you can pick between 1 and 20, with 1 being the lowest percentile of your peers and 20 being the highest. For example, a 1 in Strength would mean you are largely physically incapable, while a 20 in Intelligence would make you one of the smartest people alive.

(While this does not necessarily mean you think the actual average of your peers is 10, also assume that 10 is middle of the pack. If you think everyone else is dumb as rocks, a 10 in intelligence is pretty good even if it goes up to 20.)

Base stats:

Strength
Dexterity
Constitution
Intelligence
Wisdom
Charisma

Feel free to add more stats (like endurance) to your list. Even broad skills, if relevant! (For example, if you have generally low charisma but you're particularly good at persuading people, give us a persuasion stat.)

It would be great if you explain why you think you rank where you rank, but it's not mandatory.

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Edit 1 [28/03]: Some have suggested 3d6 as an alternative range, from 3 to 18 (or 5 to 20). You are welcome to use that range instead, but please indicate which one you're using.

Also, here are two great optional stats to add: awareness/perception and mental stability.

 

[Zardnaar]

Probably 10 or 11 for most things.

At my best a 12-14 for my physical stuff. Used to load containers at port, 60000kg in a day.

12 strength now, maybe 11-12 for intelligence and wisdom. 8-10 constitution, 9 dexterity.

Injury and sickness have put me below average in health and flexibility. Can't carry a 63 kg beer keg in each hand anymore or throw 50kg fertilizer bags.

 

[AmazonQueen]

S 8
D 3 I'm a klutz
C 12
I 14
W 6 I sometimes do things I know aren't great ideas and sometimes I keep on doing them
C 14

 

[IglooDame]

Strength: 10
Dexterity: 4
Constitution: 12
Intelligence: 14
Wisdom: 17
Charisma: 13

And by the way, "neutral good".

 

[Kaitzilla]

Heh, everyone on this forum is smarter than average and weaker than average, right?

 

[Zardnaar]

Heh, everyone on this forum is smarter than average and weaker than average, right?

Old age.

In 3E D&D I had 14 strength.

Not anymore.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Strength 10
Dexterity 6
Constitution 7
Intelligence 20
Wisdom 14
Charisma 18

 

[IglooDame]

Heh, everyone on this forum is smarter than average and weaker than average, right?

We should probably rate "ego", too.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

We should probably rate "ego", too.

Ego 18
...bigger than yours

 

[IglooDame]

Ego 18
...bigger than yours

I concede, good sir.


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[Synobun]

Strength 10
Dexterity 6
Constitution 7
Intelligence 20
Wisdom 14
Charisma 18

You really think you're one of the most intelligent people on the planet? Genius-tier?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It may be too late, but the classic 3d6 3-18 range produces a much more natural distribution than just a 1-20 range. It's really easy to say "I score in the top (or bottom) half of a percentile makes me a one in 200 case, and a 3 or an 18 is in fact a one in 200 "roll."

Using the standards of D&D for what these characteristics mean...

Strength is a raw thing, so even if you are a total muscle ball if you are undersized it won't be very high. I knew this female competitive body builder who was absolutely furious at the world that despite all her efforts being barely over five feet and a hundred pounds meant that a two hundred pound fat lazy slob (not to name any names) would still be a serious threat to her in a brawl and in fact the almost certain winner.

Intelligence is the ability to take in and recall information. If you read things three times and the next day you can barely string together three sentences of it that's low. If you can read a book, listen to music you've never heard before on your headphones, but have them turned low enough to hear the professor's lecture, and three days later you can reproduce the majority of all three that's high.

Wisdom is the propensity to make good decisions in a heated moment. Being incapable of coming up with apt descriptions to fit this trait is a large part of how I know I score pretty low here. I am good for following a plan, and I can recall plans I've made in advance for a whole lot of casualties, but when confronting genuinely unexpected situations I will invariably do something that turns out to be crazy.

Dexterity is a combination of hand-eye coordination, foot speed, and basic balance. To score exceptionally high requires being heavily gifted in all three.

Constitution is a combination of basic health, endurance, and pain tolerance. If you have never been sick a day in your life, have the wind of a marathon runner, but will quit working over a splinter you aren't at the top of this heap. Similarly, unless you quit at the first splinter because you are guaranteed to get an infection that may well cost you your hand and have to stop for breath on the way to the first aid kit you aren't at the bottom.

Charisma includes raw physical attractiveness, the hard to define 'likeability,' and the often inexplicable "leadership." If you have good ideas that you can't talk people into, and continuously find yourself as the "odd man out" in groups, and actually find people stopping and staring but quickly averting their eyes when you notice you may be exceptionally low here.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Legit though, I feel that there should be a separate stat for mental/emotional stability. I guess it falls under constitution but I feel it should be its own thing for real life stats.

You really think you're one of the most intelligent people on the planet? Genius-tier?

Yeah pretty much.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

So...me.
Str-about 14. Not a lot of effort built muscle but I have bulk and know how to leverage it.
Int- 18, solid. I scored 93rd percentile on the entrance exams for a Masters in economics after reading through a textbook and flipping random pages of a dictionary of economic terms in odd moments of the three months before the test. In any contest of taking in and regurgitating information I will dispatch 199 people out of 200 handily.
Wis- I claim 6. I haven't made a decision so absolutely bad that it killed me, and I haven't had to be institutionalized to make that happen. If someone calls it a 5 I wouldn't likely argue, because there have been decisions that probably only failed to kill me through some combination of planning and luck.
Dex-maybe 10. I trained the balance part pretty hard, but the hand-eye coordination part consists of shaky hands and poor vision and foot speed is lacking, period. Hard to calculate a combined result.
Con-again maybe 10, and again hard to calculate the combined score. My slow speed drags down dexterity, but I've never met a cold I couldn't catch and I take forever to heal. On the other hand I have trained my breathing so I have descent wind and I am demonstrably very hard to force to a stop through infliction of pain, it takes real damage.
Cha-15 or so. The looks part drags because other than being tall I'm pretty ordinary, but I know how to work a room and I can generally lead people off a cliff like lemmings...as my sister says "his qualifications don't matter, if he gets an interview he'll get the job," and as I was often described in the car business "we need him because he could sell televisions to blind people."

 

[Synobun]

Yeah pretty much.

Aww, you're friends with me out of pity.

It may be too late, but the classic 3d6 3-18 range produces a much more natural distribution than just a 1-20 range. It's really easy to say "I score in the top (or bottom) half of a percentile makes me a one in 200 case, and a 3 or an 18 is in fact a one in 200 "roll."

3-18 feels less intuitive to me but I'm also not a tabletop gamer. If people want to use that instead, by all means. Please mention it if you do, though.

 

[Zardnaar]

I'm smarter than most people as I don't tend to rate myself that high on these types of questions.

For a score of 15+ in intelligence I would expect a master's in STEM and/or a polyglot.

A guy with what I consider 15 or 16 intelligence in D&D graduated uni at 16, and ended up working for Bungie and the Halo games. Double degree and master's in computer engineering iirc. His first degree was something like math.

His intelligence in this system I would put at 17 or 18 as there are people smarter.

Alot of very smart people are 12-14 range.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Aww, you're friends with me out of pity.

Nah, you're a cool dude.

My mental/emotional stability comment was serious though. It seems there is an inverse correlation between intelligence and mental health for some people, myself included.

 

[Synobun]

Nah, you're a cool dude.

My mental/emotional stability comment was serious though. It seems there is an inverse correlation between intelligence and mental health for some people, myself included.

You're welcome to add it.

 

[Lexicus]

Strength 5
Dexterity 4
Constitution 3
Intelligence 18
Wisdom 15
Charisma 12

 

[Hygro]

Dex is my lowest, but my high level makes up for it. I traded some int for wis along the way. Gained, lost, and regained charisma. One of those three is my best... but Str and con not good either.