I was digging through my closet the other day and found a folder with a bunch of 1-2nd edition D&D characters and my folder of all the other games I did characters for.

I noticed a few things

1) I cheated a lot rolling up stats. I look at the numbers and marvel at the crap I "Supposedly" rolled. When you roll 3d6 and somehow get nothing below a 14 on your stats, I think I cheated, and on at least 8 characters I paid attention to. I didn't cheat a whole lot during games though, That I recall.

2) I love multi classing. Only one human out of 10-12 characters. I did 1/2 Elves for Fighter.MU/Cleric or gnomes with Fighter/Illusionist/Thief a lot.

3) I was actually more creative with names back then as well. I would have thought I had some bizarre childish names but didn't for the most part, now I go very anglo/european , John , Micheal etc. Then I had Mellendar or Elishia etc.

Anybody else notice or know of things you did years ago that seem really silly now.

My stuff was never silly! Well okay, Cli'(click)'n Nat the Vrusk warrior/soldier had a built joke built into the name. But other than that...

Hmmm... there was that adventure I wrote where a wizard stole Santa Clause's sleigh and bag of infinite holding then traveled back in time to rule the world. That was a bit silly.

Or the Dwarf warrior who spoke like a Shakespeare character, in long flowery sentences.

Maybe I should rethink this.

It's not cheating on stats. There's only two ways to do stats: 3d6 in order; and everything else. You just did everything else.

Everyone plays the system, except those of us who don't. I think it's a rite of passage to play all half-elf triple class characters for a while.

Names?  Names have to work in context. You can't have Bob the Fighter, Fonkin Hoddypeaks the wizard, and Paleologos the cleric in the same party, but eah on their own is fine.

Thank you for sharing, I love reminiscing. Granted, it takes longer with strangers.

Quote from: Scott Anderson;757761It's not cheating on stats. There's only two ways to do stats: 3d6 in order; and everything else. You just did everything else.

Everyone plays the system, except those of us who don't. I think it's a rite of passage to play all half-elf triple class characters for a while.

Names?  Names have to work in context. You can't have Bob the Fighter, Fonkin Hoddypeaks the wizard, and Paleologos the cleric in the same party, but eah on their own is fine.

Thank you for sharing, I love reminiscing. Granted, it takes longer with strangers.

Four ways.
3d6 in order = O & 2nd
4d6 drop lowest then assign = A, 3rd & 4th, and probably Next.
3d6 in order and shuffle points within limits = BXetc
And then the rest = optionals. Lots of optionals.

One of my older BX characters rolled up S:11 I:14 W:14 D:14 C:14 C:11

Current one though came up a freakish S:14 I:16 W:14 D:16 C:14 C:16. Probably one of the best characters I've ever rolled up. Also one of the strangest for the symmetry.

Both are 3d6 in order. Didnt bother shuffling points as both were too weird to spoil.

I did roll an astounding number of characters with 18/00. =)

Weirdly enough I never cheated when I rolled an 18 strength (or just wrote one down) Guess I wasn't gonna be too greedy.

I did silly as well but mostly in Gamma world. We, for some reason, took our D&D more seriously.

D&D by far was not the only gam I cheated at for stats. My Rolemaster and spacemaster, Gamma world etc were all broke as hell.

My younger brother fairly consistently got at least one natural 18 per character.

I don't mind some high stats on PCs. Let's face it, people with the physique of Woody Allen rarely volunteer to go on dangerous adventures. But people with the body and/or skill set of a navy seal or Bruce Lee do seek out dangerous jobs.

The 1e DMG had 4 different methods of rolling up stats for characters, none of which was 3d6 in order.

It really depended on the system. OD&D (and basic) had different bonuses than AD&D, starting much lower.

Quote from: Doughdee222;757796I don't mind some high stats on PCs. Let's face it, people with the physique of Woody Allen rarely volunteer to go on dangerous adventures. But people with the body and/or skill set of a navy seal or Bruce Lee do seek out dangerous jobs.

Gee you think? Kudos to you for being realistic. Dudes with 6-7 Str and 15-16 Int become Red Wizards of Thay or wizards that actually make magic items as a living or something more silly. Unless your playing a Dnd game published before 1977 or so. Or a clone of such.

For example I read the red book of C&S (1e) today. Offensive isn't even the start...women get advantages and preferential treatment just because? Really? 0/1e and earlier aren't much better concerning this bullshit. RPG games aren't reality simulators so just stop with trying to make them so already. It's so 1980-90's.

Accept that adventurers are superior in some fashion because what average Joe would actually leave civilization? Name one person with 8-11 statistics in history that did. They don't because they're average or a serf or worse.  

I dislike arrays but at least they are realistic if we're talking about an actual adventurer as opposed to some group of people with 47 servants with the express purpose of being torch bearers or Star Trek redshirts.

Now I want to play in a dungeoncrawl where we're all playing pre-gens based on Woody Allen... Woody the Warrior, Woody the Mage, Woody the Thief... not sure what to do about a Cleric though, Woody is a devout atheist.

Quote from: Simlasa;757824Now I want to play in a dungeoncrawl where we're all playing pre-gens based on Woody Allen... Woody the Warrior, Woody the Mage, Woody the Thief... not sure what to do about a Cleric though, Woody is a devout atheist.

Would explain why first level clerics get no spells...

Sounds like what youd get with Dungeons & Toons...

Actually, serfdom was a pretty sweet deal for a lot of the Middle Ages. But the rest of it, I agree with you marleycat.

Quote from: Scott Anderson;757850Actually, serfdom was a pretty sweet deal for a lot of the Middle Ages. But the rest of it, I agree with you marleycat.

Well considering the reality of the actual Middle Ages you may have a point. They weren't a great period of human history if you really think about it.

Quote from: Simlasa;757824Now I want to play in a dungeoncrawl where we're all playing pre-gens based on Woody Allen... Woody the Warrior, Woody the Mage, Woody the Thief... not sure what to do about a Cleric though, Woody is a devout atheist.

Ugh and a devout pedarast. Marrying essentially his own daughter... That's all I can think of when I hear his name.