I only have one char with DPs.. Lvl 1 DP at that, meaning not a serious curse. Sadek has a craving for the flesh of sentient beings and is slightly more bestial than before.. In other words, his natural tendencies got magnified..
And one can hardly call Sadek a peoples person, seeing as he would eat anyone if not Carrib was there to keep him in check at times.. And the fact that he tends to bully people rather than sweet talk them..
Heh, I seem to manage both then
Though I agree that I´d like to see more play to their low attributes..
Below average int->You can not speak clearly!(I have alot of grief with this.. Examine-> gets "Seems a bit dull-witted etc" and they behave like they are fully normal.. stinks of power-building)
Below average Wis-> Prone to rash acts.. Maybe mad in some way.. Daydreamer.. etc..
Below average Cha-> Not a peoples person!
But then again i´d like to see people RP their strengths as well..
High Str-> Lots of muscles.. Not some slim chick here.. coupled with a high Con as well we get a big person..
And yet alot of those with high scores in these attributes, especially women, put in "beautiful, slim but athletic" when it should say "ever seen any of those chicks in bodybuilder magazines? .... looks like that."
For example, Julia Colds would have tendencies to look like one of those women (18+ Str is massive! It´s the peak of human physique, beyond that is superhuman..)
People do that because they do not really understand the scales of the DND system, to the real world.
Intelligence is easy. Add a Zero to the end of the number, that is your IQ. The other stats are compairable to that as well.
Strength is one people get FUBARED on. A 12 Strength, broken down into loads (those of us with military backgrounds fondly remember the load of a full kit), is simple. Light 43 pounds. Medium 44 to 86. Heavy 87 to 130 pounds.....Now, that effects you speed just like armor of the same "load class". No biggie, and to a lot, doesn't look like much. a 12 STR person, can lift 130 pounds straight up, over their head. I work in construction, that's NOT easy, even for strong people. They can lift 260 pounds up to their gut, and go very slowly with it. They can push/drag/deadlift it just off the ground, 650 pounds. Current world record for Deadlift in the heavyweight class right now I believe is 500 kg (set by Matt Rossiter, aukland) Though deadlift records get broken all the time, before Matt it was Ken Brown. 500 kg is around 1100 pounds, give or take. A 12 STR can DO HALF THAT.
This makes for BIG people. If you can take, a 650 pound block of something, and shove it across the floor, you are a beast. I hook you up to a 650 pound pile of cinder blocks and you drag it somewhere, but you can't do oh, 750 pounds, you're at about a 12 str.
Wheeled objects don't count. Reguarly, on the day job, my average wheeled load pushed/pulled by hand, was betwen 2,000 and 6,000 pounds (example, Bunk of 4" Jatoba Hardwood on a cart = 4400 pounds (40 cases) + weight of cart (another 150 or so), average good sized Jatoba job, 50 cases or 5500 pounds. Tile could be even more, especially granite or porcelain). Math people can tell you that with wheeled weights it's only a matter of providing the initial energy of roughly 25% of the mass, to get it moving, then less to maintain it because Inertia helps. Until you try and stop it.
That is your scale. Model accordingly. You can get a lot of power out of a good Looking lithe woman, ala, Rachel Mclish (
http://www.builtreport.com/mclish/042.jpg ) But that was when she started building for figure and symaetry, as opposed to Power. Because there is a VERY simple rule in power lifting, or body building. It takes MASS, to lift Mass. Mass on women, makes them look like this. (
http://www.builtreport.com/mclish/019.jpg ). I like Rachel a lot more now that she stoped going for Power.
~Rex