What is your personal dump stat?

Dexterity, definitely. I am very clumsy and while I do work out, I do it for the Strength and Con. Intelligence, Wisdom and (to a degree) Charisma are all pretty important for modern life and real world priorities, so none of those.

Go for a prestige class!

Charisma, then either constitution or wisdom. The only time it really changes is if I end up being the token cleric in which case I go low on dex and strength. But so far in the games and my last group I was in we allmost never needed anything with Charisma though that was prolly just the DM and us being lazy.

You might want to re-read the thread. This isn’t about your characters’ stats, it’s about your stats. Your real-world strength, agility, and so forth, as seen through the distorted lens of D&D (or D&D-esque) rules.

Now, I’m not picking for you…but you did fail your Spot check on the premise of the thread. :smiley:

Dex, definitely. Weapon Focus and skill bonuses make up for it in the few areas it’s relevant, unless you have a better explanation for why I’m a good shot but can’t handwrite or throw/catch worth a darn.

Looking objectively at my life, I surmise I must have minimized all my stats, and taken a few character flaws, in order to maximize my magical aptitude. I’d be bigger than Merlin, Gandalf, and Harry Potter combined - if I hadn’t got dumped in a non-magical setting.

does getting a paper cut means low Constitution or simply low armour?
plug: Og doesn’t even have enough skill points to come out of character creation yet, but he’s shaping up to be a lovable meatshield with everything else as a dump stat… Doper Attributes . Character Creation

It’s either Charisma or Dexterity for me. I’m a natural klutz and am very badly coordinated; lack of social contacts throughout life all point to a low Charisma.

Wasn’t there an article in a Dragon magazine where there are a set of tests to determine your real-life stats? I remember Strength is determined by how many bench presses you can do.

Oh, about twice a day.

Joe

Weeeell… my STR is clearly a dump stat. DEX used to be a’ight, but isn’t anymore. Who actually uses the old age rules, FFS ?! CON… I guess I got a mild edge there, I’m pretty tough for a weedy nerd, even though I get wheezy walking to the corner store. INT is bog standard. WIS, as much as I’d like to pretend, is similarly average (and I must have some sort of racial penalty to Spot & Search checks). Finally, CHA has got to be in the low single digits, compensated for by a few ranks in Craft (Witless Snark) and Perform (Drunken Singing).

In summary: My DM is a dick who should have let me reroll.

This is difficult for me to determine. I definitely score well in Strength, Constitution, Intelligence, and Wisdom, but the other two involve some things I do very well, and others that I don’t. For instance, with Dexterity, I have very good hand-eye coordination and balance, but I’m perhaps closer to average in terms of agility and speed. Similarly, with Charisma, I am reasonably good looking and, as far as I know, well regarded by people, but my persuasiveness relies much more on my ability to appeal to people’s intellect, reason, or emotions, and I’m certainly not a magnetic personality.

So, anyway, I’d probably have to go with Charisma being my worst, mostly because I can compare myself to people I know are highly charismatic and I’m not like them at all, whereas I can compare myself to others known for a number of the other stats and, if I’m not on the same level, I’m at least comparable. That, and I think Charisma largely entails extraverted personalities and I’m just… not.

Wisdom. Any choice I make without conferring with someone else tends to be a bad choice.

That all depends… is a person always flat-footed on paper cut attack since he/she is always surprised when getting one? In that case, I would surmise that low AC is responsible more than anything else. Wear a pair of chainmail gloves every day and you’ll never get a paper cut again. Regardless, I would assume paper cut damage is always subdual as I can’t see anyone dying from a multitude of them. (Of course, Death By One Thousand Paper Cuts sounds like some form of ancient Chinese torture… okay, I really need to stop and get back to work now…)

well what do you know, someone wondered the same thing and posted the question a couple of months back. thread got sidetracked by said ancient Chinese torture though. - Death by a thousand paper cuts