I recently stumbled over a quiz translating "life experience" into D&D stats. I believe the standard is to roll 3D6 which gives a Gaussian/bell curve approximation with a 10.5 average and a range from 3 to 18. Since non-leveraged human ability is very much distributed on a bell curve this is useful in terms of describing differences. I cross correlated the results with a lot of other GM talk and it seems that a rather tremendous effort has gone into describing D&D in human terms so that, perhaps, people may play their characters better. Here's the quiz
http://www.kevinhaw.com/add_quiz.php ... but like with MBTI, you can also work your way backwards from the descriptions
http://dmingwithcharisma.com/2011/10/dd ... -language/ ... So validate and verify. In any case, the results kinda seemed legit to me. Translation equation: 1+24(QUIZ-3)/15=LIST
Here are my QUIZ numbers as far as I play my own character in real life:
STR: 12
INT: 17
WIS: 16
DEX: 12
CON: 14
CHA: 7
In terms of differences, my character is almost always the smartest guy in the room but lacks the charisma to have any meaningful impact on most people. Fortunately, he/I also has the wisdom/experience realize this and therefore chooses to shut up in most cases usually acting quite reserved with most people. Athleticism is above average but not note-worthy. Constitution is somewhat above average usually resulting in remarks like "Seriously, you guys need to eat again. Are you diabetic or something?!" (also see low charisma score)
Humans seem to enjoy practising their strengths to a proportional degree. IOW, individual activities seem to be quite defined by how inherently good the individual is at doing them. With the low cha-score, there's generally no enjoyment of typical "charisma"-activities such as eating out, travelling, recreational shopping, celebrities, and rooting for sports teams and my character shows practically zero interest in any of them. Conversely, the combination of int+wis means I quickly get known as "THAT guy" (either famous or notorious within the circle depending on who you ask) no matter where I get involved (work, library, internet, sailing, ...). However because of the low cha score, typical work/productive efforts have focused more on lone pursuits like writing and intellectual research/invention rather than social pursuits like climbing corporate or academic ladders. The somewhat higher con level is mostly taken for granted---there a few experiments such as cold showers, not using A/C, warrior diet, which apparently are somewhat harder for other characters to just go and do. The above levels of str+dex has lead to some interest in sports which is one of the only activities where I/this character feels normal/not different from others---also because sports doesn't depend on the rare int+wis+cha combination (aka cassandra burger).
In any case, I can derive a host of explanations for my personal life/background/typicall behaviour from this. This is quite remarkable given the simplicity of the stats. I think they explain me pretty well. Statistically, the likelihood an int+cha+wis combination this extreme (or more so) is 1 to 6912. D&D nerdiness aside, I have NEVER met anyone like me or more extreme/different than me as far as those three stats are concerned. Conversely, as far as str+dex goes, in random groups, I'm usually the "strong" guy (as in, "see if jacob can do it") whereas in sports-groups, I get picked for the team somewhere around the middle, i.e. "worst guy on the best team".
As for specific list entries of things I do differently:
* I almost never buy anything new except for socks, underwear, and tools that are used up (drill bits, sandpaper, files, ...)
* The only pre-processed food I eat on a regular basis is ketchup.
* As far as I know, there's only one other house on this entire block that has a vegetable garden.
* I only have a vague idea of which day in the week it is.
Takeaways, apart from "exercise more"?
