Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Turning Yourself into a D&D Character

Quick question: a year, maybe two or three, ago, I think there was this meme going around the OSR where you could figure out your attributes or something to turn yourself into a D&D character. I've tried multiple times to google for it, but I haven't been able to find it. Does anyone else remember this? I think you determined Strength by how many push-ups in a row you could do or something, maybe? I can't remember the other ones. Anyway, if someone remembers this and can point me to it, that would be awesome. Thanks!

8 comments:

  1. when I read your post title I thought "load myself down with 400lbs or so of ironwork, satchels, broom handles, candles and "iron rations" and then get myself skewered by some lowlife in a sewer? Hmmm, no thanks."

    As it is, I'm guessing that finding out I'm below average in everything will just depress me. But hey, somebody has to be! And that somebody is 0 level normal joes.

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  2. It is easier to make yourself into a Traveller Character.

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  3. @richard: Yeah… if I were to actually run a game off of this, I'd wait until I had very experienced players who wouldn't get "themselves" killed right off the bat. And that's still a big "if." I asked because it's a fun little quiz and because I thought it might give me some ideas as to how to turn yourself into a Pendragon character. I was hoping that if I fed my gamer ADD a little scrap then it would quite down- I think Pendragon would probably be the best system I'm familiar with to run a Narnia campaign, and turning yourself into a character becomes, I'd say, much more attractive when you're going to Narnia instead of the bowels of a Swords & Sorcery dungeon… as far as being below average in every attribute, I find that hard to believe. Almost all people are below average in some areas and above average in others, and I'd expect that D&D attributes reflect that. Most people that play D&D would probably at least have INT scores above 10, just because it attracts imaginative people that ask "what if."

    @By The Sword: I really need to become more familiar with Traveller. I thought the character generation process was mostly dealing with what space industries your character had been involved in… or is that not the part of turning yourself into a Traveller character that wouldbe easy?

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  4. Jesus... that thing thinks I'm a superhuman.

    I think it needs to be recalibrated. Still - Kinda cool.

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  5. Hah - I just did the "what are your D&D scores" above and it turns out I should be a cleric!

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  6. Cleric for me too. Although I could get a 10% XP bonus as a druid too, apparently. Very upset to discover that I will never be a thief (my favourite class). Dex 6 indeed!

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