How do you envision this?

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#1

Ragitsu

Jan 27, 2009 15:58:39
A Strong Hero with low Strength, a Smart Hero with low Intelligence, a Dedicated Hero with low Wisdom, and so forth. Fictional examples are good, but real life examples are best.
#2

backstabbist

Jan 27, 2009 16:06:00
Strong Hero: Patton
-Master of the Sabre, US Army
-Olympic Pistol Competitor
-And has a rank or two of Knowledge Tactics, ask any German tank commander about that
Patton wasnt Mongo Smash. He used that Full BAB and kTactics, and Saber feats

Strong10/Strong10,
you should see what he did to the poor slob that told him he couldnt multiclass that way.
#3

trappedslider

Jan 27, 2009 16:14:12
Strong10/Strong10,
you should see what he did to the poor slob that told him he couldnt multiclass that way.

so,thats why he slapped that guy....i wondered bout that
#4

Master_Vega

Jan 27, 2009 16:24:15
Smart Hero with low INT = the guy who should've gone into Dedicated Hero instead. He is by no measure the brightest guy around, but the sheer effort he puts into intellectual pursuits assures that, given time, he will reach the right conclusion. He has a wide knowledge base simply because he spends all of his time studying.
#5

rustam1

Jan 27, 2009 18:35:37
Smart Hero with low INT = the guy who should've gone into Dedicated Hero instead. He is by no measure the brightest guy around, but the sheer effort he puts into intellectual pursuits assures that, given time, he will reach the right conclusion. He has a wide knowledge base simply because he spends all of his time studying.

This would be like 90% (99% ?) of all college professors. Int 11 with almost all skill points in one topic.
#6

nclanceman

Jan 27, 2009 19:10:46
A Strong Hero with low Strength, a Smart Hero with low Intelligence, a Dedicated Hero with low Wisdom, and so forth. Fictional examples are good, but real life examples are best.

Well these are certainly few and far between...

Strong Hero - Any character that thinks they know Kung Fu. (None come to mind).
Fast Hero - Isabella Swan from Twilight.
Tough Hero - Every version of the Littlest Cancer Patient
Smart Hero - The President's Science Adviser from Armageddon.
Dedicated Hero - Detective Sledge Hammer from Sledge Hammer.
Charismatic Hero - Vincent Gognitti from Max Payne.
#7

TheRealOrion

Jan 27, 2009 20:16:21
This would be like 90% (99% ?) of all college professors. Int 11 with almost all skill points in one topic.

I realise you're joking, but the "prof who don't know anything but his topic" is actually where you start to see how the Skill system, as granular as it is, really can't replicate how people actually learn (also, those profs are rare; I work in a uni, trust me on this, they're much more multi-talented people thank you'd think). The Shadowrun system of specialising in knowledge skills, exchanging breadth of knowledge for a higher score, made the most sense to me. It would be like saying, "I your Knowledge: Pop Culture score is now 15 instead of 10, but only for questions about sports. For all other Pop Culture questions, your score is down to 5."
#8

gordjohnson

Jan 27, 2009 20:52:26
Smart hero:

Ben Stein
His new movie "eXpelled" is about intellegent design and having it taught in school. threw the whole movie is shows no understanding of "Evolution" or "Big Bang" and keeps referring to the two as "Darwinism" and continually stating that Darwin came up with the big bang and how preposterous it is because how old it is, blah blah blah... i... im done.
#9

TheRealOrion

Jan 27, 2009 21:49:50
Ah, so someone who's so dumb he thinks he's smart. You could do the same thing with all the mental stats: so oblivious he thinks he's wise, and so repulsive he think he's sexy.

Wouldn't military commanders have to have at least some Charismatic hero in them?
#10

Master_Vega

Jan 27, 2009 22:59:36
Smart hero:

Ben Stein
His new movie "eXpelled" is about intellegent design and having it taught in school. threw the whole movie is shows no understanding of "Evolution" or "Big Bang" and keeps referring to the two as "Darwinism" and continually stating that Darwin came up with the big bang and how preposterous it is because how old it is, blah blah blah... i... im done.

Not to start a debate, but that's not at all what the movie was about. The movie didn't mention any particulars about creationism, ID or evolution in particular (except when the condescending anti-ID people explain why their theory is better [the ones who aren't full of themselves focus on the topic]) . It was about how scientists who even choose to explore things like ID get the shaft, and even people who publish articles mentioning people who privately study for ID get the shaft.

The movie was about politics of science getting in the way of scientific research, particularly if that research involves any suggestion that there might be something to ID.

Edit: In addition, Stein refers to the study of evolution etc... as "Darwinism" with the objective of making it look like another religion, but that is a discussion best reserved for PMing.
#11

gordjohnson

Jan 28, 2009 0:53:06
take that johnson