Let’s assume 10 is an average person and 30 is world class
- Strength
- Dexterity
- Constitution
- Intelligence
- Wisdom
- Charisma
I have absolutely mediocre stats, but the player is using slightly loaded dice. Not enough that everything is a 20, but enough that I have very few 1s.
10 STR - Used to be 14 when I worked out.
12 DEX - Used to be 16, but I’ve kind of stiffened up with age.
10 CON - Average. Always has been.
12 INT - I wouldn’t be able to get paid loads for the occasional perl hack if I wasn’t. However, see below.
8 WIS - See below.
8 CHA - See below.Int and wis might be the other way around. My experiences leads me to conclude that I’m reasonably smart, but still prone to stupid decisions. I’m not sure if I have wisdom that makes up for lack of interest, or if lack of wisdom sabotaged my int. My will save is awful, though.
As for charisma, I am OK looking, but I severely lack social skills. I have what you’d call charisn’tma.
- STR 10
- DEX 10
- CON 8
- INT 12
- WIS 8
- CHA 8
- Str 3
- Dex 5
- Con 4
- Int 5
- Wis 4
- Cha 2
D&D characters are capable of superhuman feats even with standard stats, so I’d estimate mine pretty low.
- 10 STR
- 10 DEX
- 10 CON
- 10 INT
- 6 WIS
- 6 CHA
Think of the default model that appears in character creators.
Hmmm. If 10 is average and 30 is world-class…
- Strength: 13. I’m a big and fairly muscular guy who goes to the gym regularly.
- Dexterity: 10 (+1). I’m not clumsy, but I’m no gymnast, either. Strictly average, all things considered. I give myself one bonus point on account of being ambidextrous.
- Constitution : 12. Again, regular at the gym. Should probably do more cardio, though.
- Intelligence: 15. I’m a software developer, I’m working on being bilingual, and I have a lot of varied interests. You’ll also note that I can spell and use punctuation properly, which is sadly outside the norm. I’m not bragging, I know I’m well above average in intelligence.
- Wisdom: 10. I’m not the stereotype of a book-smart-but-foolish person, but I’m also smart enough to know I’m not winning any hypothetical wisdom awards. I’ve made average amounts of boneheaded mistakes.
- Charisma: 12 (+1). I’m a better-than-average public speaker, and I have it on good authority (my wife) that I’m reasonably handsome. I also get the (completely unfair) tallness modifier.
All in all, my D&D stats would be pretty decent. Nothing anywhere near the peak of human potential, but not bad.
I threatened to run this as a booth at a gaming convention once. Set up 6-12 basic challenges and then print certificates with your “real life stats block”
Sounds hilarious. Can’t wait for my 6 8s.
I’d love to re-spec. Take away some dexterity and wisdom and put some in charisma
10 is an average human, so all of us would be 10 or lower for all stats unless we are appreciably above the mean.
Body builders probably would have str around 15 or something.
A PhD scholar would probably have int and wis around there too.
I suppose? I quite like the way World of Darkness did it. There wasn’t as much gradation, but the average human was 2/5, and if you were kind of good at something, or you took a community college course, or something, you could justify a 3. The qualifications in the book were a scale the average person in real life was familiar with and probably even had few of (so my EMT license was a 2 in medicine, my Eagle scout was a 1 in survival, and so forth).
It really made you feel unique, rather than promote this “NPC” shit.
If 10 is average then anyone above the mean is above 10? Strongmen, Olympic lifters etc. are close to 30 str, since that is “world class”.
I would guess that a lot of “ordinary” people have at least one stat where they are above average, just based on how low “average” is for a lot of stats, and how most people are decently good at something.
Edit: This depends on the distribution of course, but stuff like strength, IQ, etc. are typically close to normally distributed, in which case about half the population is above average in any given stat.
I’m being needlessly pedantic.
In dnd heroes get strong enough to wrestle with a dragon through magic and what not. I don’t think any human devoid of stuff like that would even get to 20 str.
Maybe int and wis are different, I don’t know what 20 int would really be like.
I was just basing myself off OP’s scale, where 10 was “average” and 30 was “world class”, which I interpret as shifting the scale compared to how it would be in a dnd-game, such that the whole scale applies to actual humans.
In that spirit, I think it’s fair to put a talented engineer at 20 int, and an absurdly talented polymath at 30 int. My personal experience is that engineers with some years of field experience are often more “intelligent” (i.e. better at general problem solving) than most PhD’s.
So on a scale of 1-30? Not 1-18?
Okay then:
- STR 4
- DEX 6
- CON 17
- INT 18
- WIS 21
- CHA 12
For justification:
I can’t lift most things people can, in many ways im less strong than comparable in terms of height cis women. I’m a clutz but can occasionally display dexterity like dodging out of the way of something or catching a difficult casual throw of some object.
I recovered from surgery about 2 months ahead of schedule, I frequently just ignore the fact food is expired and eat it and I’m fine most of the time, never been seriously sick or broke a bone and have put my body through absolute hell in terms of circumstances and drugs and am fine.
I wouldn’t say I’m smart but I do work in cybersecurity and am learning hacking which requires a lot of brain effort, so I suppose being able to keep up with that must mean I’m fairly above average.
Wisdom I’d say I’m pretty high on, I can connect between disparate ideas and cross-domain knowledge fairly easily and intuitively.
My charisma is okay when I am dunking and roasting people, I have a good sense of humour, but I’m not very convincing, I’m a critic.
17 str. 10 dex. 10 con. 17 int. 10 wis. 6 cha.
In my 20s i realized I had to spend a feat getting persuade proficiency to make up for my “maybe on the spectrum” social abilities.
In my mind, charisma is easily the hardest one to improve. The rest you can grind out or get better with age but Charisma is tough
I got my strength from going to the gym 3 hours per week for years.
If I joined an amateur theatre group or something similar that practiced 3 hours per week I’m sure it would improve after a few years.
sure buddy
This is the perfect reply to someone with a 6 charisma.
My group did a multi-shot where we played ourselves, and we each set each other’s stats. Each of us took a turn being DM so we could each play ourselves.
Mine was something like 8, 9, 8, 14, 12, 8
I’d have to dig up that ancient sheet to know for sure.
Then I spent a decent chunk of the campaign trying to build a phone charger out of random things you’d find in Chult.
I always thought it would be funny to do that except then I feel like I would have made enemies of everyone.
Hmm well not sure but I’ll try:
STR 6
DEX 12
CON 10
INT 12
WIS 12
CHA 8Or perhaps more accurately would be to lower wisdom and dexterity and give myself expertise/proficiency on a few skills, namely, Perception, Nature, Animal Handling, Medicine, Insight, Sleight of Hand, Investigation.
I think mine would be around average in most:
- 7 Strength
- 9 Dexterity
- 8 Constitution
- 12 Intelligence
- 11 Wisdom
- 8 Charisma
I would probably focus on Intelligence and Wisdom, but I think having a higher charisma would be also be very nice
No luck stat? Because we all tend to underestimate how much luck plays into everything.
