Awesome Stats?

[Cind]

After getting Exceptional intelligence on a half-elf and seeing the benefits I began trying to prioritize wisdom in the one or two spot. Oh my god.

One time I got extremely good for all stats on a human, but it was a character who could never take advantage of any of it without going against their background, so I never got a chance to see.

[Kol]

I prioritize as I see how the class needs it, If I'm a warrior, I won't prioritize wisdom unless I plan for the guy to become an officer...

Having said that, I've had a few PC's with some awesome stats, including one with 3 EG and one VG, he died fairly quickly if I remember....

I'd much rather see two VG's a A, and a G in my stats, but I've had some awesome fun with PC's with two poors.

[MeTekillot]

what is wisdom even good for

[MeTekillot]

It's not just in combat. I can't count how many times I have repeatedly failed skill checks of all kinds despite the skills being max'd, while trying to show a newbie "how to do it".

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You say to the newbie, in sihirish:
     "Right. Just try to disarm me. I'll show you how to do a reversal."

You lead the newbie's disarm attempt and reverse it!
You try to disarm the newbie, but fumble and drop your own weapon instead!


[Wolfsong]

It's not just in combat. I can't count how many times I have repeatedly failed skill checks of all kinds despite the skills being max'd, while trying to show a newbie "how to do it".

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You say to the newbie, in sihirish:
     "Right. Just try to disarm me. I'll show you how to do a reversal."

You lead the newbie's disarm attempt and reverse it!
You try to disarm the newbie, but fumble and drop your own weapon instead!


Recovering gracefully, you say to the newbie, in sihirish:
     "That is exactly how stupid you will look when I stop going easy on you."

[Iiyola]

It's not just in combat. I can't count how many times I have repeatedly failed skill checks of all kinds despite the skills being max'd, while trying to show a newbie "how to do it".

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You say to the newbie, in sihirish:
     "Right. Just try to disarm me. I'll show you how to do a reversal."

You lead the newbie's disarm attempt and reverse it!
You try to disarm the newbie, but fumble and drop your own weapon instead!


Recovering gracefully, you say to the newbie, in sihirish:
     "That is exactly how stupid you will look when I stop going easy on you."

+1

[Dar]

I once rolled a noble who had all stats except one as exceptional and the fourth one was extremely good. And about ... 2 minutes after chargen I had a staff tell me something like ,"We are in Awe of your stats."

Needless to say that was one role that did not need ... ANY of those stats, except maybe wisdom for barrier/contact.





Then again I am personally a strong believer of having all stats removed from the game and everyone made an 'average' statted person.

[Iiyola]

I'm starting to get a little annoyed with my own stats. Seems like everyone has amazing stats but me :|

Then again: I prefer good RP over awesome stats. And that's exactly what I'm getting

[Kaiden]

I'm starting to get a little annoyed with my own stats. Seems like everyone has amazing stats but me :|

Then again: I prefer good RP over awesome stats. And that's exactly what I'm getting

Wait till you get good RP WITH awesome stats, that makes it even better

[Iiyola]

Yeah well.... not planning to get my char killed any time soon if I can help it

[Akaramu]

I had an AI agility on my very first PC, a 16 year old pickpocket / acrobat.

My best statted PC ever was my second PC... a 18 year old assassin. I think it was exceptional wisdom, extremely good agility, very good strength and good endurance. 

Overall, I've been pretty lucky with stat rolls for some reason and consistently seem to get above average ones, sometimes WAY better than average.

[Is Friday]

After I played a delf ranger that I branched parry on in 4-5d, I've subscribed to the wisdom fanclub. Nearly maxing a weapon skill on a warrior at 14-16d is worth it to me. I'd prefer that over high strength, because it increases longevity imo.

[Cind]

If you think you need wisdom, you'd better get it... well, that's advice for me.

I once had an elf with above average wisdom and my survival at one point partly depended on my ability to learn a new accent. I didn't for a game month, although I spent the entire time listening to it and ended up dying to something else. Came into the game as a new character, and a RL week later, I heard of a crime perpetuated which was, according to its location and time, probably meant for my pc and they got bored and nailed someone else.

I once had a half-elf with exceptional wisdom and sat at a bar, listening to two people speaking in a different language. I was just sitting there, minding my own business because they were babbling nonsense into my ear. Almost a game hour later, the script became "bendune" or what have you that language, instead of "an unknown tongue." My brain exploded.

also, that first one had the bard subguild, which supposedly makes it easier to learn new languages.

[Wolfsong]

To be fair, learning languages is random as fuck. One of my first PCs, a warrior/mercenary with poor wisdom, learned heshrak the first time a gith auto-yelled at him.

[Cind]

To be fair, learning languages is random as fuck. One of my first PCs, a warrior/mercenary with poor wisdom, learned heshrak the first time a gith auto-yelled at him.

you're kidding me!

nevermind then. wow.

[Armaddict]

To be fair, learning languages is random as fuck. One of my first PCs, a warrior/mercenary with poor wisdom, learned heshrak the first time a gith auto-yelled at him.

you're kidding me!

nevermind then. wow.

Got it beat, not by statistic, but by coolness.  Elven criminal eavesdropping on two templars in the old days picks up Tatlum.

[Wolfsong]

To be fair, learning languages is random as fuck. One of my first PCs, a warrior/mercenary with poor wisdom, learned heshrak the first time a gith auto-yelled at him.

you're kidding me!

nevermind then. wow.

Got it beat, not by statistic, but by coolness.  Elven criminal eavesdropping on two templars in the old days picks up Tatlum.

You win.

[Bacon]

It's kinda weird out that works. I had one pc pick up Allundean, Mirrukim, Bendune, and Tatlum. Most of my others, have never picked up a second or third language.

[Spoon]

I lose.

I once had an elf with AI wisdom and linguist subguild who never picked up another language despite being around for a good while.

[Iiyola]

I lose.

I once had an elf with AI wisdom and linguist subguild who never picked up another language despite being around for a good while.

That's very weird.

[Synthesis]

I lose.

I once had an elf with AI wisdom and linguist subguild who never picked up another language despite being around for a good while.

I'm pretty sure they changed the language-learning code at some point, to make it more difficult to learn languages, the more languages you already know...so starting out with three from linguist could make it more difficult to actually learn one in-game.

[Jeshin]

Learned Tatlum while sitting in the heart. One Faithful said good morning to another or something to that effect. Then the other replied... Bam tatlum!

[Delirium]

I lose.

I once had an elf with AI wisdom and linguist subguild who never picked up another language despite being around for a good while.

I'm pretty sure they changed the language-learning code at some point, to make it more difficult to learn languages, the more languages you already know...so starting out with three from linguist could make it more difficult to actually learn one in-game.

I don't think that's the case... though if it is, that's silly. The more languages you know, the easier it is to grasp the basics of others.

[Twilight]

Actually, given the helpfiles, there should be different modifiers for each language.

If a language is related to another, and you know one of the two, should be easier to learn the other.  Should be nearly impossible to learn the mantis language, as it is completely unrelated, etc.

That is how it should be, IMHO, but I am not sure it is.  Having bard seems to help, but nothing else that I have seen so far.

[Delirium]

Actually, given the helpfiles, there should be different modifiers for each language.

If a language is related to another, and you know one of the two, should be easier to learn the other.  Should be nearly impossible to learn the mantis language, as it is completely unrelated, etc.

That is how it should be, IMHO, but I am not sure it is.  Having bard seems to help, but nothing else that I have seen so far.

YES.

If you know bendune and sirihish, cavilish should be a total snap. Or if you know cavilish, bendune should come a bit easier. That always bugged me.