inverarity: (Alexandra Quick)
inverarity ([personal profile] inverarity) wrote2013-11-11 12:21 pm
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Alexandra Quick is a 6th-level Magic-User/Thief

Springing off of a comment on an earlier post, I had this extremely nerdy idea a while ago, so why not?

D&D Basic Rules

Way back in the day, I played Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Yes, yes, it's true. I even had the original blue box basic D&D set.

By high school I had left AD&D behind and have never really looked back (for many years I was more of a Champions and GURPS grognard), but let's face it, everyone who has ever played a roleplaying game, even if they sniff disdainfully at AD&D, is familiar with the tropes pioneered by that game.

So, for anyone nerdy enough to be familiar with them, here's an AD&D alignment poll for my AQ characters. (Here is a summary of alignments if you need a refresher/guide.)

We're going by the original AD&D alignment chart.

AD&D Alignments

Blink Dogs. Seriously.

Or if you prefer one of a bajillion images online mapping various fictional characters to alignments:

The Wire alignments

It took me a while to find one I agreed with. Also, The Wire is fucking awesome.

So, without entering into an extensive debate on the validity/utility of AD&D alignments (I had those debates so many times in high school...), consider this "just for fun."

I will let the poll run for a while, and then eventually post my own Absolutely Correct and Inarguable Word of God interpretations. :P

I'm not including all the minor characters because it's a pain — LJ requires I manually enter the fields for every single character. But feel free to speculate in the comments if you like.



[Poll #1942893]

Re: Nerdgasm

[identity profile] graeme sutton (from livejournal.com) 2013-11-11 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I sort of had adult stats in mind it's true. For here current age under D&D rules she'd take like a -3 strength hit so something like strength 8 would be more appropriate, and I admit it, I upped her dex and int by a point each because you can't dual class unless you have at least 17 in the prime req of the second class. I originally had Dex 17 and Int 16 which to my mind is pretty reasonable (seriously has she ever not drawn first?).