“Welcome, Joan! Before you begin your life, please create your character. You have 30 creation points. Type HELP if you would like to learn more about the attributes.”
help
“There are six basic attributes that apply to all abilities you develop during life.
- Strength determines most physical abilities, like running speed and stamina.
- Agility is required for physically complex activities like dancing and playing music.
- High intelligence will allow you to learn quickly and apply knowledge to new situations.
- Health determines how easily you get sick, your allergies, addictions and sleep requirements.
- Very charming people will make friends easily and impress strangers.
- Wisdom creates self-control, humility and insight. High wisdom allows you to train other attributes more easily.
“You have 30 creation points to spread amongst 6 attributes. These are your base stats. There will be opportunity to increase attributes through training during your life.
“Create your character.”
Strength: ***
Agility: ******
Intelligence: ********
Health: ****
Charm: *******
Wisdom: **
“A character with these stats will probably be seen as very successful, with a good career and many friends. However, low strength combined with below average health may result in poor health and fitness unless he or she is conscious of exercise and good eating. WARNING: Low wisdom will cause thoughtlessness, naivety, impatience and over-confidence.
“Do you wish to keep these stats?”
yes
“Joan has been created.”
Hmm… not such a bad distribution of attributes, although your wisdom is dangerously low – you’ll be vulnerable to ‘confuse’-type spells. But the rest of your choices are very suitable – high intelligence is most useful if you wish to become a mage (and I suppose ‘scientist’ could be considered our universe’s equivalent of ‘mage’).
And your charm is pretty high. Occasionally, in a badly-programmed universe, high enough charm will allow you to buy items from shopkeepers and sell them back at higher prices than you bought them for, allowing you to manufacture arbitrary amounts of money at will.
You’ve also given yourself enough agility points to become a rogue, or maybe even multiclass as a scientist/rogue. Could be very interesting…!
I look forward to your first level up 🙂
If wisdom is associated with humility, does this preclude one from accurately assigning one’s own wisdom? Perhaps our actual wisdom is inversely proportional to what we imagine. Damn, i think i need more widom for this question. (does saying that make me wise?)
mr joel
This is something I’ve pondered for a few years. It would be very tidied if before we were born, our souls had to choose to distribute creation points like this. What stats are favoured to whom? Do we regret our initial allocations and having lived with it now, would we change them? And why does it seem like some people got more points to start with than everyone else?? Yeah, you know who I mean. The capable, pretty, nice people.
Anyway, this is how I think my creation points are distributed. The low wisdom has been bothering me. It causes bouts of Anti-Joan. But if I had the option now, I don’t know if I would take a point from another attribute to put into wisdom.
So peoples, what do you think your base stats are? :p
(Rohan, I levelled up on Thursday, after my last exam — *SCHWING!* “All Hail Joan, who has attained mastery of Level 4.”)
uh-oh! looks like someone is addicted to SIM! 🙂 heh
wisdom comes with life experience. so i feel that its not something that you should worry too much about. actually, i have the same theory as you that our soul distributes the “creation” points before we are born. the reason why some people seems to have more points is because they did good things during their past life, hence have credit points in addition to their base points…
By the time you are old enough to even be able to estimate your point counts, I believe your initial distribution is irrelevant. You would have had plenty of time to advance and ‘upsize’ yourself. The reason some people seem to have more points is more likely to be because they have advanced levels more frequently in the intervening years since their creation. Those experience points are well worth it!
Beldar
‘Upsize’? Hehe…
I’ve been thinking that I could write an entire blog as an RPG.
Current quest – Clean room
Equipment – Pyjamas, dustcloth
The whole thing would be in second person.
“You walk into the darkness. As light floods the room, you gasp. Without you noticing, someone in the last year had ransacked the room and left it in disarray…”
It’s only now that I appreciate that RPGs are trying to imitate life.
I reckon there need to be more categories. I feel that I, like you, would be fairly short on wisdom, but unusually high in most of the other categories. Perhaps my mum supersized me…
There should be categories named “time management”, “mental stability” and perhaps “common sense” (similar to wisdom. These would be the categories which i severly lack points in.
Geez, that sounds like Daniel — the high everything but low time management… Daniel?
How did you do that? (I didn’t even realise that I’d forgotten to put my name on the bottom of the post)