# Fighting Ignorants (D&D setup thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 16, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-ignorants-d-d-setup-thread/536322 "2010-04-16T08:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-ignorants-d-d-setup-thread/536322/3 "2010-04-16T10:29:01Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > We’re playing by First Edition rules? Sigh. Don’t know those rules for character creation, unfortunately. No trouble, I will help you out all you need. According to your post you have: > [@What would be your D & D stats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-d-d-stats/535239/24): > > Strength: 9 - Used to be an 8, but I’m working on it! > Dexterity: 9 - I’m clumsy. > Constitution: 12 - I hardly ever get sick, but I’m not otherwise endurant. > Intelligence: 11 - I scored really high on an IQ test when I was very young, but I think I’ve evened out now. > Wisdom: 11 - I like to think I’m insightful but the truth is probably closer to average. > Charisma: 11 - I’ve been told that I’m cute and I’m a pretty confident person. > > I feel like a sad panda comparing myself to these other folk. :3 You meet the minimum ability score requirements for any race and any of the basic four character classes (cleric, fighter, mage, thief), none of the special ones. Your dexterity would impose penalties to thief skills, your wisdom would entail a 10% chance of failing to cast clerical spells, your intelligence would allow maximum 5th level mage spells (if you survived that long) and only a 45% chance to learn any spell. I need hardly say that none of your scores confer any _benefit_ whatever, so pick a class and have at it! Bear in mind that dwarves receive +1 con/-1 cha, elves +1 dex/-1 cha, halflings +1 dex/-1 str, half-orcs +1 str/+1 con/-2 cha - none of which do you much good. Demi-humans generally have infravision and some resistances, half-orcs have the least benefit (they work best when those stat +1s actually _do_ something). If you wish to tell me what you’d like to be, I’ll take it from there. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-ignorants-d-d-setup-thread/536322)._