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> attributeconversion to real life, without flaming, plz
Slamm-O
post Jan 25 2004, 12:57 AM
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i was wondering what everybody's opinions were on rough conversions from sr attributes to real life quantifiers (ie IQ). Now i know some cant be quantified so easily, so maybe give an example for them (charisma). I also know that they are pretty loose ratings (charisma being looks and attitude etc.)

i want to know because me and my friends wanted to have a campaign where we tried to play ourselves, but we want some sort of standards for attributes and skills. Assume that the total maximum for humans is 9 (for very exceptional human beings, no just olympiads but legends) and no adept abilities/edges/magic etc.

i understand that flames can develop (you think you are a Int 7 because you scored that on the SAT/IQ?! you are so full of it!) please avoid them though, just put in your input and allow us a group (DSers and out gaming group) to weed out the BullShit.

I was thinking it might be easy to get some ratings in relative terms using the following, since we have all been tested/can be tested these ways:
str-bench press, other excercise with weights
int-iq or sat
charisma-compared to hollywood star (using the public persona) both sexes plz
willpower- maybe a list of easily imagined tests?
bod- size/fitness, giving relatives for both
quickness- 40 time and relative agility and/or dexterity (juggling, acrobatics, whatever)
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- Slamm-O   attributeconversion to real life   Jan 25 2004, 12:57 AM
- - Siege   First you have to decide what is encompassed by ea...   Jan 25 2004, 05:02 AM
- - MachineProphet   Body: Amount of medium-strength baseball bat blow...   Jan 25 2004, 05:03 AM
- - Slamm-O   i really like your guys ideas as far as willpower,...   Jan 25 2004, 05:25 AM
- - Phaeton   MachineProphet - I'd say charisma is a combo o...   Jan 25 2004, 05:29 AM
- - leemur   QUOTE (MachineProphet)Strength:  For every 50...   Jan 25 2004, 05:35 AM
- - kevyn668   The SAT is in no way a "true" measure of...   Jan 25 2004, 06:26 AM
- - Siege   Flaw: Addict, Billy Ray Cyrus -Siege   Jan 25 2004, 06:28 AM
- - kevyn668   QUOTE Siege Posted on Jan 25 2004, 06:28 AM ...   Jan 25 2004, 06:31 AM
- - Munchkinslayer   6 pt Flaw: Mullet-wearing Billy Ray Cyrus fan   Jan 25 2004, 09:55 AM
- - Panzergeist   Well, obviously intelligence 3 would be IQ 100, si...   Jan 25 2004, 10:21 AM
- - Panzergeist   So, if you believe the SAT is a true measure of in...   Jan 25 2004, 10:27 AM
- - Austere Emancipator   Just like thinking being a communist proves you ar...   Jan 25 2004, 11:38 AM
- - Siege   The SAT doesn't test reasoning ability nearly ...   Jan 25 2004, 01:40 PM
- - Shockwave_IIc   QUOTE (Panzergeist) Quickness is easy to measure, ...   Jan 25 2004, 05:44 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   QUOTE (Panzergeist)Strength is probably more like ...   Jan 25 2004, 05:52 PM
- - Slamm-O   i think the bench press thing proves that you need...   Jan 25 2004, 07:51 PM
- - snowRaven   If you want really crude and interesting, but full...   Jan 26 2004, 12:30 AM
- - Slamm-O   lol snowraven, that is great, that would be the co...   Jan 26 2004, 01:05 AM
- - Fortune   The way my group did this (in the distant past wit...   Jan 26 2004, 01:45 AM
- - kenji   ok, for conversion: just guesstimate. rough nume...   Jan 26 2004, 02:14 AM
- - 3Threes   Make a running mental leap, the result is your int...   Jan 26 2004, 03:42 AM
- - DamienKnight   SR# p. 41 'Willpower keeps a character going ...   Jan 26 2004, 04:45 AM
- - snowRaven   QUOTE (Slamm-O @ Jan 26 2004, 03:05 AM) one ...   Jan 26 2004, 02:37 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   snowRaven: At least for Quickness, using the runni...   Jan 26 2004, 02:45 PM
- - DamienKnight   I disagree about quickness. I think the rules are...   Jan 26 2004, 07:24 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   QUOTE (DamienKnight)When you first shot a gun, how...   Jan 26 2004, 07:45 PM
|- - DamienKnight   QUOTE (Austere Emancipator @ Jan 26 2004, 02...   Sep 2 2008, 04:11 PM
- - Adarael   QUOTE Int: SAT score /200. Good shorthand, but as...   Sep 2 2008, 04:19 PM
- - DamienKnight   QUOTE QUOTE Int: SAT score /200. Good shorthand, ...   Sep 3 2008, 01:55 PM
|- - Halabis   For all the attributes you just have to figure out...   Sep 3 2008, 02:00 PM
- - DamienKnight   Even when measuring using a standard deviation, va...   Sep 5 2008, 05:31 PM


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