# RPG stat sacrifice celebritys **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rpg-stat-sacrifice-celebritys/237233 "2004-03-30T03:11:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rpg-stat-sacrifice-celebritys/237233/1 "2004-03-30T03:11:01Z")
In some role playing games you get a certain number of stat points, and may distribute them as you wish. the reasonable way to do this is often to put a few in everything, with a few more in what you want to focus on, and a few less in whats not important (give a wizard more inteligence with a lower than average strength). However you can often make an interesting charactor by takeing nearly all the points from one statistic makeing you useless in one area but extrodinary in another. instead of a wizard who is just blow average in strength and above average in INT, you make one that is nearly without strength to the point of being unable to move, and putting all the points in INT so that they are a great intelect. what are some examples of people that could be described in these terms? haveing charactor that is profoundly lacking in one area, but made up for with an equal increase in another feild. for example **Steven Hawking CONS,STR,DEX -\> INT** hes possibly the smartest man alive, but all his other stats are extremly low. **Paris Hilton INT -\> CHARISMA** her hotness is matched with her dumbness any other good examples you can think of? people that have apparently totally scarificed some atribute to boost another in an equal amount? use whatever RPG style stats you want, some common ones are: STR: physical strength INT: inteligence CONS: constitution: health, resistance to illness and pain DEX: speed CHAR: charisma: combination of good looks and likeablity LUCK: luck WIS: wisdom: intuision, common sense, good decision makeing feel free to use other stats if you think of a good person who seemingly pumped it up at the loss of another atribute of their personality/body ---
**Author:** ![Suzene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Suzene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suzene)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rpg-stat-sacrifice-celebritys/237233/2 "2004-03-30T12:23:38Z")
Well, I was going to try and build Micheal Jackson, but he doesn’t have a single stat to explain what all of his WIS, INT, and CHA drained into. Maybe CON…something dragged his boney tail through all those surgeries. Suzene ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rpg-stat-sacrifice-celebritys/237233/3 "2004-03-30T13:08:45Z")
You should probably add in Beauty to those stats. paris Hilton has about as much Charisma as an angry rattlesnake. Sure, she’s pretty, but who’d want to be around her? She has low Charisma. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rpg-stat-sacrifice-celebritys/237233/4 "2004-03-30T16:10:45Z")
Steven Hawking has probably a God Like CON, his disease would usualy kill a sufferer in their twenties. How about trait dissadvantages Garry Glitter swapped +3 Charisma, for disadvantage:Paedophile. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rpg-stat-sacrifice-celebritys/237233/5 "2004-03-30T18:27:31Z")
George W. Bush: INT -\> LUCK 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rpg-stat-sacrifice-celebritys/237233/6 "2004-03-30T18:39:02Z")
> [@smiling bandit](#): > > You should probably add in Beauty to those stats. paris Hilton has about as much Charisma as an angry rattlesnake. Sure, she’s pretty, but who’d want to be around her? She has low Charisma. I dunno. She got along fine with that family in Arkansas, and there’s apparently another reality show in the works along the same lines. Additionally, she’s incredibly successful with her clothing/accessories line. I’d certainly say she’s charismatic. Why else would she be in so many magazines and celebrity shows? Something has to account for it. You could also substitute Strength for Dexterity for her. She’s pathetically thin, but apparently quite limber… ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rpg-stat-sacrifice-celebritys/237233/7 "2004-03-30T19:43:26Z")
This title reminds me of those spam emails with random words in the subject line: extraneous courteous barrette regimen 🙂 I think I’d choose Viggo Mortensen. The guy seems pretty normal, very hard-working, but not terribly bright. He really does seem like a genuinely nice guy. So I’d take from his INT and put on his WIS and CHA.