Str 13 - I'm a fairly huge hulking dude, but I don't really work out. I think it might be some sort of just unusually high base level strength because of viking genetics. In any case, I'm a good bit stronger than most people around me.
Dex 11-13? - It really kinda depends on the aspects of Dexterity.
Con 10 or 15 - I basically never get sick and I heal oddly fast. But then I'm not in especially great shape...so maybe I just have a high Fortitude? The distinctions between these things in D&D is fuzzier than I'd like.
Int 17-18 - Apparently I'm a genius... Last I checked my IQ tests come out at like 155 or something?
Mind you, IF there were a "Memory" stat, mine would be "Selective". Near perfect recall on stuff that interests me, instant forgetting of things that bore me(which includes horrible amounts of stuff I desperately NEED to remember).
Wis 16 - Seriously, brain power is something I have no shortage of. It's my tendency to apply it to silly things and be totally lazy that puts it to a terrible waste. Also I'm terribly ADD and impatient. I don't know how to translate those to D&D stats. Some sort of giant negative on Will checks?
Cha ??? - I have no idea how to rate myself on this, if I'm honest.
I am, by nature, asocial.
Left to my own devices, I avoid almost everyone. Constantly.
That said, I seem to almost instantly be able to get along with almost anyone in a friendly way if needed...maybe a combo of adjusting well to interacting with people on their wavelength, and responding with laid back ambivalence to even the stupidest crap people say? A lot of people seem to get quite attached to me with little reason, and moreso than I'd prefer. For a long time I'd have people almost PERPETUALLY coming to hang out with me, even when I was actively avoiding giving them any incentives to do so. The only reason that's not still true is because I "fired" almost all of them from my life.
Also, everyone trusts me, though THAT is something I admittedly encourage and never betray.
Going off of my recent Public Speaking class, I've seemingly developed natural public speaking ability over the years (definitely not a skill I used to have, but also nothing I ever put any work into...). I knocked every speech out of the park despite the fact that I was almost entirely winging it on each one, having vaguely "written" each speech about 10 minutes before class (told you I'm lazy).
And on the flip side, despite the vast majority of my closest friends being women, I've only really had one girlfriend...and even that was a complicated situation.
But that might be my fault, since I'm both picky as all hell and horribly oblivious to interested women until loooong after the information would be useful to me.
If you're counting Charisma physically, as D&D does, I'm pretty average. If I were in better than mediocre shape, and not balding, I'd probably be....regal.
And, again, I'm asocial.
I'm deeply fond of humanity as a species but, with the occasional exceptions I'm deeply fond of, I can't stand the individuals humans of which humanity is comprised.
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My brother is a lot like me, albeit better in some areas and worse in others, and the two of us have been referred to various times by various people as "super humans", I occasionally get compared to/referred to as "Thor", people call me their voice of reason, and my brother's Jewish girlfriend calls us the "German Ubermensch proof-of-concept" (how do you even respond to that?).
I'm a generally gifted human, and I put most of it to a terrible, shameful, waste. <_<
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As for the seemingly unusual concentration of people rating themselves highly on The Escapist, consider the nature of this website, the audience that it draws, the tendency of similar people to be draw together by shared interests, the more specific sub-interest that is a thread of this type, and then the tendency of people to flaunt their gifts, while others keep quiet or exaggerate.
Basically, nothing about the population of this thread should be expected to be representative of "average" people. Even if everyone in this thread is being totally honest, it will skew high.
