Kaleion said:
barbzilla said:
Gasp!
The picture was Daniel Craig coming out of the ocean in Casino Royale, that-s what that would look like, as for INT, again a 20 is supposed to be Stephen Hawking smart so if your IQ is around 150 it would be somewhere around 14 to 15[footnote]16 if you are
really good at your job.[/footnote] which is still pretty high and good, so anyway 16 CON basically means that you can withstand some pretty strong poisons and diseases, in any case I wasn't trying to be rude or anything, just trying to remind people that if they were playable characters in D&D they'd be pretty close to useless, because we are not heroes of legend.
I must clarify that this is considering the rules regarding Pathfinder, D&D 5th Edition and a little bit of 3.5, since I mostly play by avoiding fights I pay too much attention to what stats mean from a role-play perspective, though knowing you played 2nd does help understand why you would give yourself such ridiculously high stats.
Zhukov said:
WIS - ?? (How the fuck does one quantify "wisdom"?)
Zen Bard said:
*Note: I'm not just suggesting that all Buddhists are inherently wise (to Zhukov's point, how does one quantify wisdom?!?!), but we DO sit around and contemplate a lot of morality shit.
Keep in mind that Wisdom in D&D and Pathfinder does not mean the same as it does in real life, while it does take spiritualism, common sense and being knowledgeable[footnote]To a much-decreased degree since most knowledge is associated with Intelligence in these games.[/footnote] into account it is also the ability to perceive, sense and Will-power, as in the capacity to stay firm on their goals and how driven they are but also how brave they are and how much they are willing to risk and withstand in order to achieve their goals, so basically it's a complete mess since most things it covers are not really related to one another, but thinking of it more as your ability to perceive and your bravery might help define a more accurate stat.
I am nowhere near as cut as Daniel, but I am actually more built (as in more heavily muscled, only my body fat % is probably double his as well).
Stephen Hawking only scored 160 on his IQ test, so dividing me by 4 points is a bit large by my estimation. That said, he has certainly done a crap ton more with his life than I probably ever will. That is more to do with a combination of things such as having combined type ADHD and a much lower work drive than he has (I prefer my life outside of work to my life at work, so I am at a major deficit there).
Going by your scoring type though I do have a modified score list, as pathfinder defines the stats. This will be with an 18 at peak human performance without magical aid or natural advantage, 10 being bog average scores, and a 3 being disabled (as in my Dex may be at a 3 due to being in this wheelchair, but my Wis is at a 15 for the extra time I have to ponder the universe and what it means). So, without further adieu:
STR: 14 (I am sticking to 14, but after reading the numbers in the carry weight and lifting scores, I should put a 17 as I can dead lift 275lbs without hurting myself easy)
DEX: 13 (this one is harder to judge and I only have to go on what the pathfinder book says about catching surprise projectiles and hitting far objects with ranged weapons/thrown weapons. I went with a 13 as I'm not positive I could catch a medium speed "surprise" projectile, it really depends on distance. At 25'+ I would most likely be able to, but at closer ranges, probably not. As for hitting distant targets, with martial arts I have practiced with a Long-siyah horn bow and hit the center 3 rings pretty consistently at 50m, and I graduated as TopGun at Taylor County Correctional School 2004. TopGun means I had more hits than the rest of the class at max range, and when I went to work as a CO, I was placed in the tower as a sniper, but please keep in mind that this isn't like a military sniper, the farthest shot they would expect me to take was about 350m or so with a red dot sight. So I went between a 12 and 14 to try and be as fair as possible with myself).
CON: 12 (I am dropping this score significantly because I placed way too much emphasis on how much punishment my body could sustain and my near immunity to foreign substances. That said, I have literally had half of my scheduled surgeries be rescheduled due to the doctors not being able to put me under that day with the maximum legal limit of whatever drugs they were using at the time. Out of 6 surgeries, 3 of them have been rescheduled. I really underestimated how much stamina someone at a 16 CON should have, and I am just not at that level of stamina as far as running or doing extreme labor for multiple days in a row other than my workouts and Jujitsu)
INT: 17 (I am going raise my intelligence for two reasons: 1, Dr Hawking has a 160 IQ and he is supposed to be at a 20? 2, at 16-17 it says "Noticeably above the norm, fairly intelligent, able to understand new tasks quickly" and the IQ charts put me in the extremely gifted category, but under the profoundly gifted category. Still though I don't feel that smart, and I feel more comfortable saying a 16. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that I haven't done much with my life to be recognized for, but I am a MENSA member, and did graduate with my BS in IT at 19.)
WIS: 8 (I am sticking with an 8 here, as the ability score at 8 says "Forgets or fails to consider options before taking action" which is right on the money and at 7 it talks about having no common sense, of which I have plenty. I am happy to bow to someone with more experience than me on this subject though as they seem to have no real clue as to what constitutes Wisdom whereas the other abilities all seem to focus on a single attribute.)
CHA: 10 according to me and 14 according to my brother Tyler (I personally feel as though I am either making a fool of myself or I am pissing people off by being a know it all, though my brother says that the text in 14 fits me best as I do always seem to know exactly what to say to either calm someone down or get out of a bad situation. Personally I attribute that to intelligence and experience, meanwhile my ADHD annoys people, but according to the Pathfinder book it could be either.)
So, hopefully that clears it up a bit, though I am really surprised by the turnaround on Charisma, I really expected the both of us to stick to our splits, and here we completely reversed.