Alexandra Quick is a 6th-level Magic-User/Thief

[inverarity]

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



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.



Blink Dogs. Seriously.

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

Comments

Re: Nerdgasm

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Do not try to strictly map Harry Potter wizards into AD&D. That way lies madness. It's worse than trying to build point-balanced Marvel and DC superheroes in Champions.

I do think you inflated Alexandra's stats a bit, though. ST 12? She's pretty athletic, but she's still a skinny teenage girl. Though I guess climbing Witches' Rock does suggest unusual upper body strength.

Oh, and unless Baldur's Gate lied to me, you could have specialist mages in 2nd edition. HAH!

It was probably one of those optional rules that no one ever used. Interpreting the 2nd edition Dungeon Master's Guide was an art and a science akin to rabbinical scholarship.

Re: Nerdgasm

[graeme sutton (from livejournal.com)]

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?).