Yeah, dress the wizard visible in something extremely visible, such as a lime green frock. Our opponents will go after him first, thinking he's our bipedal nuke, the rubes. When the enemy launches they'll be surprised by our symphony of skull-splintering cudgels. Great to have clerics but, man, that's going to be a lot of preaching.
I'm pretty sure most of us follow Zagyg, though.
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Depends on if he's showered today.Jade, I assume you want him in front of you?Strength 15, Intelligence 6, Wisdom 12, Dexterity 13, Constitution 10, Charisma 13
Me hittum meanies wit stick! I happy you like me. You good peeple. Tell me 'bout the rabbits?
I've spoken with the clerics. They say they have to deal with the mentally infirm in the day-to-day OUTSIDE of the dungeon. The thieves are all dead. The magic-users are dressing up in lime green robes and practicing looking like ballistic missiles. That leaves you.
How many of us meatshields are down?
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How many of us meatshields are down?
Okay, Jade. More good news. You can have Bob here. Just throw him at anything that looks like it may have reset after killing the thieves.
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1516969/
STR: 9
Int: 11
Wis: 10
Dex: 11
Con: 10
Cha: 12How mundane. I think I shall be a fighter named Bob.
How many of us meatshields are down?Okay, Jade. More good news. You can have Bob here. Just throw him at anything that looks like it may have reset after killing the thieves.
How mundane. I think I shall be a fighter named Bob.
Hey, what's this do?
*reaches into green devil face*
A lot less straight eighteens than I anticipated. Last time I had players "roll" their characters, the numbers had the age range of a High School Prom night.
Strength 10
Intelligence 8
Wisdom 14
Dexterity 15
Constitution 12
Charisma 8
Thief!!! (not Rogue)
Str 15
Int 13
Wis 10
Dex 8
Con 11
Cha 8
Well, fighter it is then.
STR 10
INT 12
WIS 8
DEX 13
CON 15
CHR 13
COM 12
Elven thief for me. :)
Thank you Mr. Gygax.
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I think about 2/3 of us are clerics, 1/4 are thieves, and the rest are split between M-U and fighter.
We're glowing on the Divine Power Meter.
Have we named our merry band yet ?
Since a greater number of you are clerics and more than a handful of you thieves, and a mere pinch of everything else,
my vote is for calling ourselves the Company of Merry Medical Mayhem, 3 dice being our badge of heraldry.
We can call our battle ballad The Attack of the Clone Clerics.
So onward to Hommlet then !
And lets keep dirt off my elven fighter m-u please after all i'm one of the non cleric clones.
What an excelent tribute to the EGG this thread is, back to where it all began.
STR : 15 (4,6,5)
INT : 12 (4,6,2)
WIS : 13 (3,5,5)
DEX : 12 (4,5,3)
CON : 15 (3,6,6)
CHR : 7 (2,1,4)
Another human fighter for the grinder.
Thank you Mr Gygax for over a quarter of a century of entertainment & education.
Miph (not Melf)
DEX=3d6=14
CON=3d6=12
INT=3d6=9
WIS=3d6=15
CHR=3d6=7Ooooh! I think I might qualify for ranger, but I don't have my older edition books handy to confirm. Still, very happy with those rolls, thank you.
Sorry - your not even all that close. You need an intelligence of 13. Your strength is too low as well.
Str 9
Dex 10
Con 11
Int 6
Wis 17
Cha 7Mmmm... well that's a cleric- and a not very long-lived one.
Actually thats a pretty good cleric. You'll get a 10% bonus to your XP and you qualify for some nice bonus spells. Even one 17 on a 3d6 method is a very good roll ... as long as your not like me and roll it in Charisma without getting anything else worth noting...then you can play a runway model...
STR= 7
INT= 6
WIS= 7
DEX= 8
CON= 11
CHA= 9Okay... so, this character has average toughness, which he will need. He can't fight, squirm, or talk his way out of a paper bag! Perhaps I'll reroll to something with a +1 somewhere...
STR= 7
INT= 12
WIS= 13
DEX= 8
CON= 13
CHA= 14Soooo much better. Perhaps another cleric or well-spoken wizard.
I think you found the way to get a reroll on that first character. As far as I can tell that character does not qualify for anything as you don't have at least a 9 in your first four stats.
Here's for you, Gary!
Str 14
Dex 12
Con 8
Int 10
Wis 7
Cha 10
Note: These aren't computer-generated. I went to the Dungeon (my D&D Room), got my special Spiel'06 dice, and rolled them.
I just happen to have some 6-sided in my back pack, so ...
STR: 18/74
INT: 7
WIS: 16
DEX: 9
CON: 9
CHA: 8Wow. Very playable. I go for fighter with an okay save versus spells. Hence the percentile strength (from AD&D DMG by EGG!). The alternative would be a battle cleric, but there are tons of clerics rolled and it would seem a waste of an 18. I hope he rolls well for HP each level. (Truth in advertising, I had my wife roll the percentile and give me the result over IM, since I don't have a d10 at work.)
I dub thee ... Fortius Tiberius Regulus(FTR for short).
Requiescat In Pace, Gary.
Wow...thats a kick ass fighter.
STR 8
INT 13
WIS 17
DEX 11
CON 12
CHA 14I'd say a ranger with Zen Archery. (I've only played 3.5 and know nothing of AD&D ^ ^;;)
I salute you Gary.
-Kurocyn
Strengths to low for ranger.
Str 13
Int 9
Wis 8
Dex 3
Con 7
Cha 8That is harsh.
A clumsy fighter.
Oww...yeah this guy is probably screwed. That penalty to your AC is going to finish you in a hurry.
STR: 11
DEX: 13
CON: 16
INT: 6
WIS: 8
CHA: 16what am I supposed to do with that?
Thats a pretty good thief or fighter.
Str: 11
Int: 13
Wis: 10
Dex: 8
Con: 14
Cha: 16Bard. AD&D PHB Bard. The one that's a fighter then a thief then a bard. Yeah!
(I knew a guy in university who owned hundreds of miniatures, and ran a campaign where every miniature had what was on their person, and each one had an index card with stats rolled (3d6, six times, in order). To pick a character, you chose a miniature, and then you found out what your class and race was).
You can't get into the thief class, dex not high enough. You'd make a pretty good mage.
Str 13
Int 9
Wis 8
Dex 3
Con 7
Cha 8That is harsh. A clumsy fighter.
Actually, with a Dexterity that low, the only class available to you is cleric. You won't have the Wisdom necessary to cast spells, though.
(And people wonder why most gamers don't play with these rules any more...)
Hmmm...well I found a website that has all the minimum ability scores for 1st edition characters. According to it the only pre req for a fighter is strength 9 and Con 7. Wisdom is too low to be a cleric.
Str 11
Dex 14
Con 13
Int 7
Wis 17
Cha 15Hrmm....guess it's time to join team cleric. Or maybe druid. Anyone remember the prerequisite scores for druids?
You need a Con of 15 unfortunately. Well at least according to the website I'm looking at.
A lot less straight eighteens than I anticipated. Last time I had players "roll" their characters, the numbers had the age range of a High School Prom night.
Yeah - ways of cheating where ingenious in those days. If you had some one distract the DM just as you where going to make your roll you could slot in sixes if you where quick. Loaded Dice where all the rage as well.
Strength 5
Intelligence 4
Wisdom 11
Dexterity 7
Constitution 6WOW... umm i could be a ummm, 'sick commoner'. This character shouldn't even leave their home.
Your a cleric like everyone else. Oops no you need at least 6 in most of your other stats...looks like you get to reroll.
Strength: 14
Intelligence: 13
Wisdom: 14
Dexterity: 11
Constitution: 14
Charisma: 13
Meh, not bad, if you're going the old school route. I think I'll be a competent cleric or druid.
Yeah, dress the wizard visible in something extremely visible, such as a lime green frock. Our opponents will go after him first, thinking he's our bipedal nuke, the rubes. When the enemy launches they'll be surprised by our symphony of skull-splintering cudgels. Great to have clerics but, man, that's going to be a lot of preaching.I'm pretty sure most of us follow Zagyg, though.
Alright... so instead of a discordant din of seperate belief systems it'll just be one holy chorus like something off a Queen album. I guess I can deal with that.
::reaches into his lil dwarf ears and pulls out the waxy rags::
ONWARD!
How many of us meatshields are down?Okay, Jade. More good news. You can have Bob here. Just throw him at anything that looks like it may have reset after killing the thieves.
Great so everyone's dead but me and bob? Well... a two fighter group with unimpressive scores. So long as this is a CR-1 dungeon, we'll be fine. <:)
STRENGTH 11
DEXTERITY 9
CONSTITUTION 9
INTELLIGENCE 14
WISDOM 9
CHARISMA 13
Okay, I better get to re-roll that one.
STRENGTH 11
DEXTERITY 9
CONSTITUTION 9
INTELLIGENCE 14
WISDOM 9
CHARISMA 13
Okay, I better get to re-roll that one.
Nope, you get to join the artillery...er, magic-users.
What's with all these references to 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons? Doesn't anyone remember that "ADVANCED" Dungeons and Dragons came AFTER plain old "Dungeons and Dragons" (aka Basic Dungeons and Dragons)?
A friend pointed out that using 1st Ed AD&D to honour Gygax is "the right way to do it" as he was the primary editor for that version of the game (although "Basic" D&D was also based on the rules produced by Gygax and Arneson in 1974 that set was actually edited by someone else).
So, let me reassess my two characters as rolled:
First Set
Well, according to my 1st edition DMG (2nd printing), this character is a non-starter:STR 11 (6,4,1)
INT 12 (5,5,2)
WIS 11 (6,4,1)
DEX 6 (3,2,1) still ouch
CON 3 (1,1,1) still super-duper ouch!!!
CHA 11 (5,3,3)
Furthermore, it is usually essential to the character's survival to be exceptional (with a rating of 15 or above) in no fewer than two ability characteristics.
That said, and given that the lowest minimum CON score for a non-human is 6 (for elves and half elves) this would do best as a human magic user.
second set
STR 10 (5,4,1)
INT 8 (6,1,1)
WIS 10 (5,4,1)
DEX 14 (5,4,3)
CON 13 (6,5,2)
CHA 8 (5,3,1)
Technically another non-starter, but closer. This could make a passable, but not very personable, Dwarven (adjusted abilities: CON 14, CHA 7) or Elven (adjusted: DEX 15, CON 12) Thief.
:-j(enni)
PS: In light of the subject heading for this thread, I hope it isn't completly out of line to point out that, at least in the 2nd printing of the 1st Edition DMG, the DM is given four different ways his players may roll up stats NONE of which are actually roll 3d6 six times, in order (just once):
- Method I: Roll 4d6 six times, take the top 3 from each roll, record in the order player desires
- Method II: Roll 3d6 twelve times, retain highest six rolls, record in the order player desires
- Method III: For each ability, in order, roll 3d6 six times, keep the highest value rolled for each ability.
- Method IV: Roll 3d6 six times in order sufficient times to create 12 characters, keep the set that the player finds most desireable.
-j
Nope, you get to join the artillery...er, magic-users.STRENGTH 11
DEXTERITY 9
CONSTITUTION 9
INTELLIGENCE 14
WISDOM 9
CHARISMA 13
Okay, I better get to re-roll that one.
Great. My wizard casts Magic Missile at the darkness.
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Strength 8
Inteleigence 17
Wisdom 14
Dexterity 8
Constitution 10
Chrisma 11
Human Wizard here
His imagination was the spark that started a fire, RIP EGG
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Great so everyone's dead but me and bob? Well... a two fighter group with unimpressive scores. So long as this is a CR-1 dungeon, we'll be fine. <:)
No. Not everyone. The clerics and I are behind you. There are about 150 clerics at this point because Mr. Gygax seems to be playing a little joke on all of us from the great beyond.
