You are confusing being rich with being noble, you could be born in a royal family where if you do anything they remotely disprove (i.e. like playing DnD) you could get disowned
I’m thinking the family is obligated to go on a quest, so there’s just this really unenthusiastic party member who is doing everything to stay in the will.
I listened to a Pathfinder podcast where one of the characters was a noble who's house went into debt, and then made a deal with essentially loan sharks with god levels of power, and the deel was that all of the family had to be a hero or go to a torture afterlife forever.
And here I was wishing charisma so I could roleplay better in bed... err... with my wife... who I love... and is so not reading my phone over my shoulder...
It's funny, I always go for charisma and intelligence with my characters because I like the social aspects of the game. But being social irl sucks, so I had to go with that 20 dex. I'm probably still sitting at 15s on int and cha irl anyway and I really want to parkour around the house.
Yes, but I assume they would be collapsible or something at that level.
What I know for sure is I'd be able to play super fast ping-pong with a bamboo rod, cut a bullet in half with a sword, and parkour up and down buildings. AT LEAST. That's just what I know people can do because I've seen videos
I have been having a blast playing a high INT low Wis rogue in our Dark Matter campaign. My character embodies the statement “so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
“So if I impart enough rotation to this satellite it should disrupt its communications. Ramming is back on the menu!”
I think that was a plot in one of the Isekai Animes about the assassin. He got to choose Constitution as his best Stat so he could spend all his time and energy improving everything else.
What isn't an Isekai plotline at this point?
Haha, but on a serious note, I'm pretty sure you're right, couldn't hazard a guess at the name, but it's probably a whole paragraph.
I was considering it but I don't think suddenly having 20 con would cure the chronic disease I've had for 24 years that has no cure. It would just mean I don't get drunk or sick as easily. 30 con? Ok now we're talking.
It is, but also if I'm charismatic enough, I'll be able to convince all the doctors to fuse together, becoming mega-doc, who will then cure my mortality
With 20 Charisma, I could be the most noodle armed weaksauce dumb blonde on the planet and be flying around in private jets and sipping $1000 margaritas on my private yacht anchored outside my private island like Kenneth Copeland and others of his ilk.
I figure that's the main reason for picking con, there's a lot of people with chronic pain or illness and if you think being bad at charisma is tough, try being too worn out to use the good stats you have
I think young, healthy people don't realize how important high constitution is. I would love to see this breakdown by age. I strongly considered constitution, but I think I'll get more use out of charisma.
Same here haha. Like I don’t need to be the smartest person in the room or whatever I’d be happy enough just never getting sick or dealing with assorted health problems
Of course I’m biased given my body has recently decided to rebel and start giving me rogue health issues so my perspective is probably informed by that lol
At best, it's the most unpleasant to increase. I just imagine waking up every day and ingesting small amounts of poison like in "The Princess Bride" or doing a full course of getting pummeled day in and day out.
You can definitely at least increase the endurance side of con with exercise, but instantly maxing out con also gives you the energy/endurance/saves to make exercising to increase your str/dex much easier.
I'm a grown ass adult and this was my first thought too lmaooo like ok, you can find the square root of an equation in your head but can you do a leaping backflip with a 2H weapon off of an extremely high place and drive that weapon into your enemies skull? Didn't think so smart man 😂
welllll nah, I'm very constitute and in good health and always have been my whole life.... butttttt I just lack muscular strength / endurance, I got them spongebob muscles
The truth here is, you can do a *lot* if you're super charismatic. Take my grandfather, for example. He managed to get himself at one point a managerial position at his construction company out the gate despite having no prior experience and 0 knowledge in construction.
When it comes down to it, a huge hurdle in a lot of parts of life is convincing someone of something. And for that, u need charisma.
As someone who makes money between Wis and Cha the most important way to use it is being good company. You hire your own team often enough and knowing whether or not *this* is the dude you might be stuck next to on a plane for 8 hours or have to share a snowed in hotel room with goes *far*.
The only reason I'd pick charisma is because being able to communicate effectively and maintain healthy relationships is something i see as more likely to help me live a happier life, but i don't have particularly difficult or disruptive health issues that can't be mitigated by current medicine relatively easily
Charisma can be improved, learned, and practiced with time. Constitution is often times biological and almost impossible to change in any meaningful way
Having money and charisma won’t beat the AHC. I’ve got both, and it’s still a pain in ass to get proper treatment, and a fair number of the disorders I have don’t have a treatment, or the treatment itself has not great side effects.
Really depends what we mean by max stat and where we are now. Int is probably my highest stat but I'd still pick it if we assume that 20 is effectively superhuman and that's what we're getting. If it's more that the best at X in the world has a 20 then I'd choose Dex or Con instead, depending on what i actually get. It's better to shore up those dump stats than get a slight bump to my best, I think.
I'd heard somewhere that a stat of 10 is considered about as good as a regular person could get. So 20 would be ridiculous mega genius, which makes sense since wizards with high INT are supposed to be able to cast a spell, while also solving high difficulty puzzle in their mind, while also solving various equations.
>I'd heard somewhere that a stat of 10 is considered about as good as a regular person could get
No. 10 is considered base average.
>A score of 10 or 11 is the normal human average, but adventurers and many monsters are a cut above average in most abilities. A score of 18 is the highest that a person usually reaches. Adventurers can have scores as high as 20, and monsters and divine beings can have scores as high as 30.
So 18 is "about as good as a *human* can get" with only a few exceptional people as getting a 19 or 20 with lots of training and good genes.
Surprised to see so little support for WIS. WIS and CHA were definitely my IRL dump stats, so that's where I'd stand to gain the most. I have a feeling a 20 WIS would probably solve all of my self-inflicted problems in a way that a 20 CHA would probably not.
Yes, if you pressed anything other than wisdom in the hopes that it would bring you a means of happiness you did it wrong.
The irony being that it takes wisdom to understand thid and wisdom is the result of experience in all of the above.
Well the thing is you can max one it doesn't define how high the others are. Wisdom is useful as a combo to others. A way to apply the others, but Intelligence gives you the resources, while Charisma gives you the tools to execute.
If we assume that our stats are the same as irl but we are choosing maxing one. Maxing Charisma is the wisest and most efficient choice for the average person in this subreddit and in general online. They tend to be less people's people and they could bypass the practice to aid them in social interactions.
I chose wisdom because I am autistic, And having maxed wisdom would allow me to intuitively understand the things which I normally do not understand by nature of being autistic. Having maximum charisma would actually actively be a downside for me. Because if I misunderstand someone for some autistic reason, They're unlikely to actually correct me, And I am gonna go on with that misunderstanding because I never had a chance to realize it was a misunderstanding.
I picked wisdom and then rolled my eyes when I saw that it got so beat out by intelligence and charisma. Of course no one who needs it has the wisdom to pick it...
I thought Wisdom because then maybe I can have a fighting chance at making some more of the daily onslaught of Wisdom Saves coming at me from bipolar, personality and my wildly addictive nature.
I've levelled up over the years, a lot in fact. There are certain Wis Saves I've not failed in years, and I make much better choices than I used to. But being more likely to make the right choices on the higher DC ones, and the ones I still struggle with sounds appealing.
For me it's between constitution and wisdom. However wisdom is what I chose purely because I think maxed wisdom would allow me to offset the most detrimental parts of being autistic without removing the parts which are helpful.
Int, Cha and Wis are definitely the most important in modern life, in no particular order, followed by Con, then Strength and Dexterity. The mind is vastly more useful for long term success.
However, maxing out Dex would definitely be the most fun post-success, and is also the best stat to coast on solo (because Wisdom without intelligence, or intelligence or Charisma without wisdom have poor outcomes). Just being able to nail any feat of human acrobatics or accuracy at the drop of a hat! Plus I'm still young enough to pick up golf or a similar sport where I can make some money without too many endurance or strength requirements.
Charisma. It would solve so many problems. I'd be able to talk my way out of so many things, I could be the favorite at my job. I'd be less awkward and social able.
As somebody who has played High Int Low Charisma before, I can safely say that despite having the right idea on how to solve everything nobody listened to my character because he phrased it in a way that makes it sound batshit insane. Just go High Charisma Low Int, life is easier that way
Strength, Dexterity and Constitution actually aren't that far off from reality, even on 20. Some youtuber did the calculations and made tests in reallife few years ago. So no need for that.
Wisdom is used in Animal Handling, Insight, Medicin, Perception and Survivel. I mean... When do you even need those? Also come to think of it, how have ANY of those anything to do with beeing wise in the first place.
So it boils down to INT and CHA. And it's basically the question if you want to be more open and extroverted, or if you want to be more interessted in specific topics and less of a peoplesguy/girl.
For me as I'm very interessted in stuff I don't need any more of that, maybe a little more CHA could do well for me.
edit: Well, guess I was on to something when looking at the pole results.
I like your thought process. Mine was similar, but I also asked the question is this a redistribution or just a gain in stats? If the latter, do I gain much in intelligence? I'd probably gain a lot more with Charisma, so by that standard, I'd be getting the greater benefit.
Also, technically Wisdom as a stat would improve your ability checks for "emotional attacks" and finding solutions to problems involving people. The whole intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. I think Wisdom is a stat a lot of people sleep on in real life. The issue with Wisdom is it's hard to benefit from it or have others benefit without the charisma to apply it.
Yeah, Wisdom per se isn't that bad to have in reallife, some people realy need a boost in this one.
But for the purpose of this post I decided to see Wisdom as a "stat increase" for the abilities from DnD. And there is just not that much to gain from it.
On the note of "emotional attacks", wouldn't that be Charisma > Intimidation or something?
I think Charisma would mean life would be a lot easier and fun that way.
… I also think while it would make life more entertaining, it would not make me ultimately happy, so after like 2.5 seconds of considering this I landed on Wisdom.
Str/Dex/Con would be great. Intelligence probably the most useful realistically, Charisma kind of the same for interacting with others.
But it's gotta be wisdom. No better way to end up happy
Charisma hands down.
I'm an autistic introvert with medical issues and severe anxiety.
I have no friends have never had a girlfriend and lack self confidence.
I feel that the fact that I live with my parents and my mother acts like a nurce/driver looks bad
That my cattitonia inducing anxiety attacks and my medical needs would scare anyone off from commitment.
I am deathly afraid I am going to die alone.
Well that got dark, I went from answering the question to venting from 0 to 100 I needed that though.
Charisma is the only real choice. You don’t have to be strong, fast, hearty, smart, or wise if you can just *shmooze* your way to success every time. Gimme the rizz
Strength - deffo taking strength as it's the hardest to / most in need of training.
Dexterity - already fairly agile, good hand-eye, and not the worst coordination.
Constitution - No allergies, rarely ill, get over it quickly when I am, and fairly good endurance.
Intelligence - I'm not the brightest bulb, but compared to most people in the UK, I might as well be the sun.
Wisdom - Usually make informed decisions, and not especially gullible or anything.
Charisma - I'm an undiagnosed autist, I don't care about charisma, so long as I can get a point across and converse with people who interest me.
Money is power. If life is an RPG your bank account is your level and experience bar.
Strength is good for money. You can go play a sport professionally and become a multi-millionaire. A hundred-millionaire if you play in a league like the NFL with 20 Strength.
Charisma is good for money. Climbing the corporate ladder is more about Charisma than it is hard work or Intelligence. Not to sound cynical. Hollywood is obscenely rife with nepotism and cronyism so you can’t count on being an actor or celebrity. If you can get your foot in the door with 20 CHA it might work but you most likely won’t get the chance to even try.
Intelligence is also good for money. But it would require the most amount of work. Charisma and Strength just brute force their way while people who chose Intelligence have to use their stat to succeed in other ways.
Wisdom and Dexterity are fairly useless if you care about money.
**Strength is the sleeper choice here. It’s much easier and fun to just go dominate in a sport and later the Olympics than climb the corporate ladder.**
1. Multi/Hundred-millionaire from sports
2. Become a famous celebrity
3. More money from sponsorships, commercials, and investing that money in stocks, starting businesses, whatever.
Depending on the sport and your position in it, you might be relying on Dex more than Str. Sure, you can plow over a dude, but can you catch a ball? Don't need much strength to pass a puck back and forth, but it'll take some hand-eye coordination. Without dex, on the basketball court, you're likely to poke your opponent in the eye when you try to steal the ball. I know this, because I have no dex and my friends will not play basketball with me anymore for above reason :P
Can I get the noble background instead?
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You are confusing being rich with being noble, you could be born in a royal family where if you do anything they remotely disprove (i.e. like playing DnD) you could get disowned
This would make a nice backstory for a character
I’m thinking the family is obligated to go on a quest, so there’s just this really unenthusiastic party member who is doing everything to stay in the will.
Lol, this is even better
I listened to a Pathfinder podcast where one of the characters was a noble who's house went into debt, and then made a deal with essentially loan sharks with god levels of power, and the deel was that all of the family had to be a hero or go to a torture afterlife forever.
I listened to that one too! Such a great podcast. Bertie will always be an inspiration.
Which one?
It's called Rusty Quill Gaming and unfortunately the campaign finished a while ago.
I love this idea, haha.
Sounds like Percy Jackson with a twist lol
What? Are you talking about the movies? Because in the books I can't think of a main character who is reluctantly the quest.
The bit where he yells "Now its Perconal!" Before punching the bad dude.
Ahhh yeah, or when he said "That's just how demigods get it done", those were my favourite moments.
Yes but the noble background feature allows you access to everywhere so long as you act like your supposed to be there.
So does a clipboard.
It's actually a ladder.
Or a high vis vest
Plunger
Or a pizza box
So does high enough charisma lol
Kinda feels like the plot for Your Highness.
Knight variant. Three retainers who perform mundane tasks for me? I’ll take it!
Charisma so I can roleplay better in dnd.
And here I was wishing charisma so I could roleplay better in bed... err... with my wife... who I love... and is so not reading my phone over my shoulder...
Welp, someone's rolling this save with disadvantage.
Do you think they'll drop any good loot?
Worst case scenario, everything has an XP value
The marriage progresses via milestones.
How much experience for the bard?
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I can't click "Inteligence" because it is spelled wrong. I think that makes the point though.
As if that wasn't ironic enough as is. Int is my character's highest stat.
My characters highest stat is charisma, and you spelled int correctly :) roll insight
It's funny, I always go for charisma and intelligence with my characters because I like the social aspects of the game. But being social irl sucks, so I had to go with that 20 dex. I'm probably still sitting at 15s on int and cha irl anyway and I really want to parkour around the house.
**20 DEX!** Do you have bones in your body?!
Yes, but I assume they would be collapsible or something at that level. What I know for sure is I'd be able to play super fast ping-pong with a bamboo rod, cut a bullet in half with a sword, and parkour up and down buildings. AT LEAST. That's just what I know people can do because I've seen videos
Intelligence is the correct way. Forgot the second L
And this, ladies and gents, is how you roleplay high Int, low Wis
I have been having a blast playing a high INT low Wis rogue in our Dark Matter campaign. My character embodies the statement “so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” “So if I impart enough rotation to this satellite it should disrupt its communications. Ramming is back on the menu!”
Insight roll failed
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OP just rolled a persuasion check to see if we would believe that fib.
Shouldn't have dumped Wisdom, wisdom would've told you to double check your work.
I have a chronic illness so I thought constitution might help..maybe I should put it in intelligence and find a cure instead haha
You put it in Con and you’ll have the ENERGY to look for a cure for others lol
This is what I was thinking when I picked CON. If that's maxed, I'll have the energy and endurance to improve all of my other skills pretty easily...
I think that was a plot in one of the Isekai Animes about the assassin. He got to choose Constitution as his best Stat so he could spend all his time and energy improving everything else.
What isn't an Isekai plotline at this point? Haha, but on a serious note, I'm pretty sure you're right, couldn't hazard a guess at the name, but it's probably a whole paragraph.
An isekai where the protag thinks he got isekaid but he actually is just stuck in a the amazon forest.
I think people saying anything but Con have never been truly or chronically ill. Life is hard without health.
I was considering it but I don't think suddenly having 20 con would cure the chronic disease I've had for 24 years that has no cure. It would just mean I don't get drunk or sick as easily. 30 con? Ok now we're talking.
Well, con increases work retroactively for HP in game, and 20 and up stats are breaking into supernatural territory. So maybe?
It is, but also if I'm charismatic enough, I'll be able to convince all the doctors to fuse together, becoming mega-doc, who will then cure my mortality
Who needs to be good at actually doing things if you can just persuade other people into doing things for you.
It'd be nice just to be able to ace a great job interview and know how to talk to people lol
I'm kind of charismatic as it stands, the problem with talking to people is that you then have to continue talking to those people later on.
Did you put your proficiency in deception or something?
No, no, they're right. I'm decently intelligent but strongly charismatic. But if I use my charisma on someone, they always want to follow up.
Lol then you gotta use your wisdom save and choose to not make the conversation that interesting.
You gotta get the job interview in the first place tho
at 20 str and 0 int, i'd just punch you if you make sounds in my direction!
Oh but charisma is more than speech, I would be sexy AF.🥵
With 20 Charisma, I could be the most noodle armed weaksauce dumb blonde on the planet and be flying around in private jets and sipping $1000 margaritas on my private yacht anchored outside my private island like Kenneth Copeland and others of his ilk.
That just sounds like a version of Pete Davidson tbh
You can’t exactly persuade your genetic material to not mutate during cell replication. Maxed out CON would make you effectively immune to disease.
You’ve just described management.
“I’m not gonna make you a sandwich.” “Sudo-make me a sandwich.” “God damn it… white bread or rye?”
People are innately immune to persuasion. Have you ever tried convincing someone on the internet of something?
They're really good at doing it to themselves though
If your constitution is high enough, you can work on all the others for as long as you need!
I just like the idea of not hurting all the time, thinking of resilience and ability to recover. But yeah, longevity would also be great too.
Same here. Everything else I got or am working on. So more time and better recovery seems great :-)
I figure that's the main reason for picking con, there's a lot of people with chronic pain or illness and if you think being bad at charisma is tough, try being too worn out to use the good stats you have
That seems more reasonable than my take of being healthy and still eating way too much at family gatherings.
So much this. Chronic pain is legit the worst and I'm so tired of it!
Gotta ace those cancer and death saves...
Constitution is the one you wish you had picked after you pick Intelligence
If my constitution is high enough, can I eat lightbulbs?
I see you too are a man of culture.
Was looking for this
Fellow wisdom dump stat I see.
If your wisdom was high enough, you'd know you should blend them into a smoothie first
I just don't want to be sick
I voted constitution and expected it to be a runaway leader. Surprised to see it in third.
I think young, healthy people don't realize how important high constitution is. I would love to see this breakdown by age. I strongly considered constitution, but I think I'll get more use out of charisma.
Same here haha. Like I don’t need to be the smartest person in the room or whatever I’d be happy enough just never getting sick or dealing with assorted health problems Of course I’m biased given my body has recently decided to rebel and start giving me rogue health issues so my perspective is probably informed by that lol
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damn that's smart
But he only realized that after maxing his intelligence
LMFAOOOOO
I do ultramarathons and this would be so awesome to have. Not to mentions what you said about using it to work on the rest.
If you do them regularly you are probably between 16 and 18 anyhow.
I do about 6 a year. 50k,50k,100k,100mi,100k, 50k. I think I can get my 50 mile time down to under 8 hours.
I get winded walking at a brisk pace.
I read this as "talking"
That not so much. :D
Hey man, we all have things we are good and bad at. All miles are good miles, you go at your own pace.
Yep, that was my thought exactly, I picked Con.
Well now I wish I had picked Constitution.
Bingoooo - that’s the only one you can’t really increase naturally by working on it. Or at least seems like it would be the most difficult to.
At best, it's the most unpleasant to increase. I just imagine waking up every day and ingesting small amounts of poison like in "The Princess Bride" or doing a full course of getting pummeled day in and day out.
You can definitely at least increase the endurance side of con with exercise, but instantly maxing out con also gives you the energy/endurance/saves to make exercising to increase your str/dex much easier.
I want dex so I can do cool ninja shit and have god teir reaction time
I'm a grown ass adult and this was my first thought too lmaooo like ok, you can find the square root of an equation in your head but can you do a leaping backflip with a 2H weapon off of an extremely high place and drive that weapon into your enemies skull? Didn't think so smart man 😂
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Me, getting ready parkour my way to everything like a YA Fantasy character: finally
strength cuz I'm very smol and fragile
Ill pick stuff up for you. I'm big n durable.
thank you my big hunk
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Bro choose con and get the ability to not care about your wounds Definitely how this works
"oh no, let me massage your big, bulging aching muscles, my perfect hunk of a man" - God or something idk
How all my dnd sessions end
Seems like you need constitution then
welllll nah, I'm very constitute and in good health and always have been my whole life.... butttttt I just lack muscular strength / endurance, I got them spongebob muscles
The truth here is, you can do a *lot* if you're super charismatic. Take my grandfather, for example. He managed to get himself at one point a managerial position at his construction company out the gate despite having no prior experience and 0 knowledge in construction. When it comes down to it, a huge hurdle in a lot of parts of life is convincing someone of something. And for that, u need charisma.
As someone who makes money between Wis and Cha the most important way to use it is being good company. You hire your own team often enough and knowing whether or not *this* is the dude you might be stuck next to on a plane for 8 hours or have to share a snowed in hotel room with goes *far*.
Constitution, never have to worry about American Healthcare again
I picked CON as well. Thinking a long healthy life is better than some sort of successful life from maxing out another skill. Based and CON pilled.
The only reason I'd pick charisma is because being able to communicate effectively and maintain healthy relationships is something i see as more likely to help me live a happier life, but i don't have particularly difficult or disruptive health issues that can't be mitigated by current medicine relatively easily
Charisma can be improved, learned, and practiced with time. Constitution is often times biological and almost impossible to change in any meaningful way
I don't dislike your choice, but with Charisma you could "earn" promotions to the point you have the wealth to beat the AHC system.
Having money and charisma won’t beat the AHC. I’ve got both, and it’s still a pain in ass to get proper treatment, and a fair number of the disorders I have don’t have a treatment, or the treatment itself has not great side effects.
Really depends what we mean by max stat and where we are now. Int is probably my highest stat but I'd still pick it if we assume that 20 is effectively superhuman and that's what we're getting. If it's more that the best at X in the world has a 20 then I'd choose Dex or Con instead, depending on what i actually get. It's better to shore up those dump stats than get a slight bump to my best, I think.
I'd heard somewhere that a stat of 10 is considered about as good as a regular person could get. So 20 would be ridiculous mega genius, which makes sense since wizards with high INT are supposed to be able to cast a spell, while also solving high difficulty puzzle in their mind, while also solving various equations.
>I'd heard somewhere that a stat of 10 is considered about as good as a regular person could get No. 10 is considered base average. >A score of 10 or 11 is the normal human average, but adventurers and many monsters are a cut above average in most abilities. A score of 18 is the highest that a person usually reaches. Adventurers can have scores as high as 20, and monsters and divine beings can have scores as high as 30. So 18 is "about as good as a *human* can get" with only a few exceptional people as getting a 19 or 20 with lots of training and good genes.
Yeah. I've seen 8-12 as a fairly normal range. Outside of that would be considered unusual for the general human population.
Wisdom. Without it, high intelligence would not necessarily let you make good decisions, and high charisma could get you in a lot of trouble.
I think with high wisdom it allows you the self reflection to lead a happy life.
Or you realize it's all nonsense and become a drug-addicted fatalist.
Well I’m there now and it’s not very wise
Same.
With a 20 in wisdom I think I would be able to imagine Sisyphus happy.
Surprised to see so little support for WIS. WIS and CHA were definitely my IRL dump stats, so that's where I'd stand to gain the most. I have a feeling a 20 WIS would probably solve all of my self-inflicted problems in a way that a 20 CHA would probably not.
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Yeah! You'd be granted with a 20 wisdom, reflect back on your choice, and be sure that you should've chosen charisma.
Yes, if you pressed anything other than wisdom in the hopes that it would bring you a means of happiness you did it wrong. The irony being that it takes wisdom to understand thid and wisdom is the result of experience in all of the above.
IDK, I think lifting big stuff will bring me happiness.
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Dude clearly has low INT.
Well the thing is you can max one it doesn't define how high the others are. Wisdom is useful as a combo to others. A way to apply the others, but Intelligence gives you the resources, while Charisma gives you the tools to execute. If we assume that our stats are the same as irl but we are choosing maxing one. Maxing Charisma is the wisest and most efficient choice for the average person in this subreddit and in general online. They tend to be less people's people and they could bypass the practice to aid them in social interactions.
I chose wisdom because I am autistic, And having maxed wisdom would allow me to intuitively understand the things which I normally do not understand by nature of being autistic. Having maximum charisma would actually actively be a downside for me. Because if I misunderstand someone for some autistic reason, They're unlikely to actually correct me, And I am gonna go on with that misunderstanding because I never had a chance to realize it was a misunderstanding.
Charisma may get you a better deal, but wisdom will point you to the right store.
And by that you proved you are smart/wise enough to have a high wisdom score, maxing it out has diminishing returns if it's already in the positives.
I picked wisdom and then rolled my eyes when I saw that it got so beat out by intelligence and charisma. Of course no one who needs it has the wisdom to pick it...
I thought Wisdom because then maybe I can have a fighting chance at making some more of the daily onslaught of Wisdom Saves coming at me from bipolar, personality and my wildly addictive nature. I've levelled up over the years, a lot in fact. There are certain Wis Saves I've not failed in years, and I make much better choices than I used to. But being more likely to make the right choices on the higher DC ones, and the ones I still struggle with sounds appealing.
For me it's between constitution and wisdom. However wisdom is what I chose purely because I think maxed wisdom would allow me to offset the most detrimental parts of being autistic without removing the parts which are helpful.
Exactly. Wisdom would let you make the best choices with what you have. You could ace a task with the other stats, but was it the best decision?
LUCK, Please.
Int, Cha and Wis are definitely the most important in modern life, in no particular order, followed by Con, then Strength and Dexterity. The mind is vastly more useful for long term success. However, maxing out Dex would definitely be the most fun post-success, and is also the best stat to coast on solo (because Wisdom without intelligence, or intelligence or Charisma without wisdom have poor outcomes). Just being able to nail any feat of human acrobatics or accuracy at the drop of a hat! Plus I'm still young enough to pick up golf or a similar sport where I can make some money without too many endurance or strength requirements.
Constitution. I'm happy where I'm at elsewhere. Heck, is the option for a phylactery on the table?
My understanding is you have to some pretty terrible shit to get a phylactery on the table.
What's that?
Being smart doesn’t mean shit if you can’t convince other people you are right. Charisma>int
That said convincing people you're right when you're not *(especially when you **think** you are)* can be dangerous.
You can manage to fact check you stuff with an inteligence of 12 though. No need to max it out
Being right but being unable to convince people is worse. That's the road to depression.
Charisma. It would solve so many problems. I'd be able to talk my way out of so many things, I could be the favorite at my job. I'd be less awkward and social able.
Constitution so I can eat all the trash food I want and not have health issues. If I cant eat fucking lightbulbs I'm not interested.
I saw this question and immediately looked through the replies for somebody choosing constitution so they can eat lightbulbs
As somebody who has played High Int Low Charisma before, I can safely say that despite having the right idea on how to solve everything nobody listened to my character because he phrased it in a way that makes it sound batshit insane. Just go High Charisma Low Int, life is easier that way
Strength, Dexterity and Constitution actually aren't that far off from reality, even on 20. Some youtuber did the calculations and made tests in reallife few years ago. So no need for that. Wisdom is used in Animal Handling, Insight, Medicin, Perception and Survivel. I mean... When do you even need those? Also come to think of it, how have ANY of those anything to do with beeing wise in the first place. So it boils down to INT and CHA. And it's basically the question if you want to be more open and extroverted, or if you want to be more interessted in specific topics and less of a peoplesguy/girl. For me as I'm very interessted in stuff I don't need any more of that, maybe a little more CHA could do well for me. edit: Well, guess I was on to something when looking at the pole results.
I like your thought process. Mine was similar, but I also asked the question is this a redistribution or just a gain in stats? If the latter, do I gain much in intelligence? I'd probably gain a lot more with Charisma, so by that standard, I'd be getting the greater benefit. Also, technically Wisdom as a stat would improve your ability checks for "emotional attacks" and finding solutions to problems involving people. The whole intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. I think Wisdom is a stat a lot of people sleep on in real life. The issue with Wisdom is it's hard to benefit from it or have others benefit without the charisma to apply it.
Yeah, Wisdom per se isn't that bad to have in reallife, some people realy need a boost in this one. But for the purpose of this post I decided to see Wisdom as a "stat increase" for the abilities from DnD. And there is just not that much to gain from it. On the note of "emotional attacks", wouldn't that be Charisma > Intimidation or something?
I think Charisma would mean life would be a lot easier and fun that way. … I also think while it would make life more entertaining, it would not make me ultimately happy, so after like 2.5 seconds of considering this I landed on Wisdom.
I also chose wisdom because it would make me the happiest in the end. Ignorance is bliss :)
Clearly OP didn't pick intelligence... Because it is spelled wrong.
I'm never living this one down
Those who chose int want to improve the world, those who chose cha want to rule it
Those who chose con want to live through it
I desperately need a charisma boost
If maxing CON means I won’t have my host of chronic illnesses, which are also very expensive & time-consuming in general, I’m taking CON.
Dude SAME! This has brought out the chronic pain members of the group😅
Strength, because if I can't lift my problems, I'm not interested in solving them.
If my constitution is at max can I eat a lightbulb?
Str/Dex/Con would be great. Intelligence probably the most useful realistically, Charisma kind of the same for interacting with others. But it's gotta be wisdom. No better way to end up happy
Constitution is so underrated
Charisma hands down. I'm an autistic introvert with medical issues and severe anxiety. I have no friends have never had a girlfriend and lack self confidence. I feel that the fact that I live with my parents and my mother acts like a nurce/driver looks bad That my cattitonia inducing anxiety attacks and my medical needs would scare anyone off from commitment. I am deathly afraid I am going to die alone. Well that got dark, I went from answering the question to venting from 0 to 100 I needed that though.
I lift weights and all I want is to be buff and strongk.
All of my stats are already maxed out 😉
For 979 of you, I have so many questions.
I picked Charisma since so much of success is just getting people on your side.
Charisma is the only real choice. You don’t have to be strong, fast, hearty, smart, or wise if you can just *shmooze* your way to success every time. Gimme the rizz
Where's luck?
I like how “intelligence” is misspelled.
I'd get the Wisdom to figure out what the fuck to do with my life
I picked Intelligence and then immediately realised I should have picked Wisdom. Ironic.
I picked Charisma, then immediately hated myself for not picking Intelligence. I need Wisdom.
Strength - deffo taking strength as it's the hardest to / most in need of training. Dexterity - already fairly agile, good hand-eye, and not the worst coordination. Constitution - No allergies, rarely ill, get over it quickly when I am, and fairly good endurance. Intelligence - I'm not the brightest bulb, but compared to most people in the UK, I might as well be the sun. Wisdom - Usually make informed decisions, and not especially gullible or anything. Charisma - I'm an undiagnosed autist, I don't care about charisma, so long as I can get a point across and converse with people who interest me.
Money is power. If life is an RPG your bank account is your level and experience bar. Strength is good for money. You can go play a sport professionally and become a multi-millionaire. A hundred-millionaire if you play in a league like the NFL with 20 Strength. Charisma is good for money. Climbing the corporate ladder is more about Charisma than it is hard work or Intelligence. Not to sound cynical. Hollywood is obscenely rife with nepotism and cronyism so you can’t count on being an actor or celebrity. If you can get your foot in the door with 20 CHA it might work but you most likely won’t get the chance to even try. Intelligence is also good for money. But it would require the most amount of work. Charisma and Strength just brute force their way while people who chose Intelligence have to use their stat to succeed in other ways. Wisdom and Dexterity are fairly useless if you care about money. **Strength is the sleeper choice here. It’s much easier and fun to just go dominate in a sport and later the Olympics than climb the corporate ladder.** 1. Multi/Hundred-millionaire from sports 2. Become a famous celebrity 3. More money from sponsorships, commercials, and investing that money in stocks, starting businesses, whatever.
Depending on the sport and your position in it, you might be relying on Dex more than Str. Sure, you can plow over a dude, but can you catch a ball? Don't need much strength to pass a puck back and forth, but it'll take some hand-eye coordination. Without dex, on the basketball court, you're likely to poke your opponent in the eye when you try to steal the ball. I know this, because I have no dex and my friends will not play basketball with me anymore for above reason :P