[RD] Your Personal Stats

[AdamCrock]

I don't know what you mean or who you're talking to.

Farm Boy's straight 8's

You see guys, this conversation is why I learned to retrain some Int for Wis. At some point you realize you gotta aim the intelligence you have over thinking through some nonviable tangent. People react favorably to this and then your Cha score can rise if you can exercise your extraversion.

Smart

 

[Hygro]

Smart

 

[Farm Boy]

I didn't think that capricious was linked to smartness anymore than kindness in the usage. More that intellect was an enhancing factor.

 

[AdamCrock]

Confound it ! I wanted to do some rolls and I've just realized I've misplaced my d20 I've acquired at MTG tournament

On the bright side now I have a new quest ....

 

[Farm Boy]

Is it a cool looking one? Cool looking d20s roll better.

 

[AdamCrock]

Is it a cool looking one? Cool looking d20s roll better.

Yeah it sure was cool looking....

Anyone knows a useful divination spell ?

 

[Farm Boy]

Spoiler ? :

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Who says really smart people can't conform? And why is it assumed that they also tend to be naturally weak too?

Because "smart" is routinely mistaken as "educated," and there's a theory that it is hard to devote the time to getting educated without spending time that would be needed to get strong. The key there is the mistaking of educated for smart. Genuinely smart people find the process of getting educated to be mostly trivial, so they have plenty of time to do other training should they be so inclined.

I knew plenty of hard working students who wanted to lord their better GPAs over me but were constrained when I staggered in with a blinding hangover and smoked the SATs that they were so heavily invested in preparing for.

Smart prevails, but it is hard to keep it from making you unpopular among the hard working educated.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yeah it sure was cool looking....

Anyone knows a useful divination spell ?

Detect dice. Somatic component lift the couch.

 

[Farm Boy]

I knew plenty of hard working students who wanted to lord their better GPAs over me but were constrained when I staggered in with a blinding hangover and smoked the SATs that they were so heavily invested in preparing for.

Man like that stood in my wedding. Awesome guy. Worked temp agencies for a long time. Eventually decided to get into healthcare. Severely hampered by a nursing instructor who didn't like being asked questions about the doctrine of the boob when it came to formula and health conditions and adoption. She probably fudged his lifelong earnings in half, but he decided to rock it anyhow. Should probably go back to a different school for a better license at this point.

 

[choxorn]

Using Valka's and Hobbs's extra stats, I'd probably put Awareness at 16 and Mental Stability at 5.

Same, I've got super good perception and awareness and the rest of wisdom... not so much

Using that quiz results:

STR:6
INT:17
WIS:11
DEX:6
CON:7
CHR:6

So I guess I'm just not as tough as I think I am but around where I thought I was with everything else.

Gotta say, there's a few questions that are a bit too broad or vague for me to be able to come up with a good answer for them, and a few where it's asking me about my success at something I've barely even tried to attempt, or at least attempt recently- like, I don't actually know how long I can jog or run without stopping, I haven't tried recently, and I could say I'm frequently turned down when asking someone out but almost never ask someone out in the first place.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Doing the quiz I got:
STR 11 (+3)
INT 13 (-1)
WIS 13 (+7)
DEX 7 (+4)
CON 12 (+0)
CHA 14 (+0)

Apart from wisdom not too far from what I rated myself. Guess I'm wise enough to know when I'm being foolish

 

[cardgame]

Strength 7
Dexterity 12
Constitution 9
Intelligence 16
Wisdom 9
Charisma 8

taking the test and there's some unfair questions

"Can you race at FULL speed for more than 5 minutes on foot without slowing?"

No, literally nobody can, in the entire world. That's why we have 100m dashes, not 1000m dashes.

Anyway, the results of the quiz matched relatively closely:

Strength 11 (+4)
Dexterity 15 (+3)
Constitution 8 (-1)
Intelligence 17 (+1)
Wisdom 15 (+6)
Charisma 10 (+2)

not really confident in that wisdom score, but whatever

also don't know what I'm capable of benching, so that was a guess (135lbs, my body weight).

 

[H4run]

Strength: 8 (I'm not that strong, and now I'm much weaker)
Dexterity 12 (the thing that save me during my youth, but now I'm much much slower and so stiff, but I still can throw a lot)
Constitution 6 (use to be so high, I can run circling Senayan 5 time in a good fast phase, it's equal to 6 km, but now less than 1 km run I already dying perhaps, never run again though it's too high impact for me, it kills my leg)
Intelligence 10
Wisdom 12
Charisma 10

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Strength 7
Dexterity 12
Constitution 9
Intelligence 16
Wisdom 9
Charisma 8

taking the test and there's some unfair questions

"Can you race at FULL speed for more than 5 minutes on foot without slowing?"

No, literally nobody can, in the entire world. That's why we have 100m dashes, not 1000m dashes.

Anyway, the results of the quiz matched relatively closely:

Strength 11 (+4)
Dexterity 15 (+3)
Constitution 8 (-1)
Intelligence 17 (+1)
Wisdom 15 (+6)
Charisma 10 (+2)

not really confident in that wisdom score, but whatever

also don't know what I'm capable of benching, so that was a guess (135lbs, my body weight).

I'm thinking the wisdom part of the test is flawed. It bumped me three points, to a nine, which by 3d6 standards is the low end of just normal range. I find that difficult to believe in based on my misdirected but entertaining life. Knocked me down two, to an eight, in constitution, which seemed reasonable enough and bumped me up to twelve (two points) in dexterity which again seemed reasonable.Put me a point higher (16) in charisma than I had figured but one point doesn't seem like a big deal.

I dunno if the test is telling me I was made to be a car salesman, or the test is just reading the fact that I was one.

 

[AdamCrock]

My Stats :

STR: 11
INT: 15
WIS: 15
DEX: 12
CON: 10
CHR: 10

I've decided to make my 3d6 throws (fortunately I've plenty of d6's) Let's see what fate has in store for me
results:

STR: 12
INT: 12
WIS: 7
DEX: 6
CON : 9
CHR : 10

Well I guess that's pretty decent. I've not added Valka +2 modifier , those are just bare 3d6 throws. Looks like I'm a clumsy commoner ! ^^ yaay

I dunno if the test is telling me I was made to be a car salesman, or the test is just reading the fact that I was one.

You really used to be a car salesman ? wow ! Yet somehow I cannot picture You in a checkered suit though

 

[The_J]

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

We have a bunch of people here who are doing martial arts and weight lifting, so you're for sure wrong about the last part .

Intelligence 20

I think you should have rated your ego 20 as well .

Charisma - 2

This sounds like you'd get punched in the face everytime you say anything.

taking the test and there's some unfair questions

"Can you race at FULL speed for more than 5 minutes on foot without slowing?"

Full speed is obviously different for long distance than for short distance. It it probably means your full speed for this distance.

also don't know what I'm capable of benching, so that was a guess (135lbs, my body weight).

Being able to bench your body weight means you're somewhere between a beginner and average gym goer. If do don't do strength training at all, then you normally can't bench your body weight.


For me:

I used this test : http://www.kevinhaw.com/add_quiz.php

The test says:
STR:9
INT:17
WIS:15
DEX:8
CON:8
CHR:12

Which is at least for STR wrong .
I'd go myself:
STR:14: I am average height for this country, but 20% heavier, with at least 75% of that being muscle, and I go 3 times per week to the gym.
INT:17: That maybe fits. I have a PhD in a multidisciplinary field, speak 2.5+ languages (can't write much in Dutch), will learn French soon... maybe enough.
WIS:8. I sometimes say stupid feces stuff, but quite some of my friends ask me for advice. EDIT: I think my charisma makes me get away with some of the stupid stuff, so I decreased WIS from 12 to 8.
DEX:6. Can't catch feces, and the only valuable in this area is for me that I'm a good dancer.
CON:6. I get sick a lot, and my endurance is far down too. Didn't manage to run 3k yesterday without a break, but I guess that'll get better.
CHR:14. I have loads of friends, of which many hold me in high regards. I'm also quite okay in romantic situations, although I don't often get there.

 

[Hrothbern]

I believe intelligence is a strong attractive quality in almost all circumstances.

I doubt that
If you are very intelligent, you learn very fast to hide it or hide the full scope of it, even as kid
And later on you will experience that many people will get uncomfortable up to envy you, although they will use other differences to express that uncomfortable feeling.
It is only when your intelligence gets or is useful to other people that acceptance gets more genuine. And when that intelligence does not play a role in your social interaction it is a nice to have.
Which Tim indicating that for extraordinary circumstances.

When you say as boss to a high IQ specialist "may I pick your brains" for something, that boss recognises this dilemma and by separating the "you" as a normal human being from that outside-normal high-IQ brain, he is protecting you, and protecting the normal social balance and interactions in his team.

EDIT
this dynamics is very differing from for example having a high strenght
If you are at school with gym and rope climbing is on the menu
and someone climbs up pretty easily without really using his legs, the reaction is very different. Some envy, but not bad.
(If that someone would show off by deliberately showing he does not need his legs at all.. this is ofc somewhatdifferent... but still not comparable to a high stat on intelligence)

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Strength: 11
Dexterity: 8, with a bonus of 13 for anything cooking related.
Constitution: 4
Intelligence: I'll just put my IQ here, which is in the double digits. mother ***** I be smart.
Wisdom: *takes a rip* like, 15 dude..
Charisma: -15
Appeal: ∞
Dancing: 16
Animal Trivia Knowledge: 13
Curl Power: 20
Singing: 12
Iron Stomach: 20
Ego: 21
Beard Growth: 19
Cult Leader Appeal: 16
Humor: FORM_ERROR 46
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[yung.carl.jung]

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.

not everyone wants to use his power of superhuman intelligence to follow a nerdy power fantasy. some people just want to paint or write or build houses or do a physical craft. intelligence doesn't boil down to "good at the maths!"

intelligence isn't just spatial awareness or the power of abstraction, it's pattern recognition in every area of life. social intelligence, creativity, and many other factors all play a role.

on a more serious note though, I think most people, even ITT vastly overrate their own intelligence. I've long realized that my absolutely average intelligence excels in real-life situations if you mix in a bit of subversion and metal ****ery and a nice smile.

A real life genius is a lot rarer than one in 216. The smartest people I've met IRL tend to be the ones with two or three degrees one if which is a master's in STEM vs something like History or Gender Studies.

this just in: a lot of people do not have the money, nor the social mobility to even go to college, completely irrespective of their intelligence. I feel like your view of intelligence is incredibly narrow and correlates more with "knowledge" or "performance" than with "intelligence". the people you're talking about with are academic performers. for that the prime necessity is not to be a genius, but to be a complete work animal.

Genuinely smart people find the process of getting educated to be mostly trivial, so they have plenty of time to do other training should they be so inclined.
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This is so obviously wrong and simply you projecting your experience with schooling onto all intelligent people. Plenty of geniuses, I would argue the hard majority, both enjoyed and excelled at the challenge of (higher) education. The Einsteins and Unabombers are the outliers here and you know it.

Actually, the myth about Einstein being bad at school is actually just due to an error by a bad historian, the only reason this myth stayed is because people wanted to believe it so badly. Case in point.