Amy still loves me, even when my AD&D doppleganger comes out.

Hold on to your sacks of polyhedral dice. I am about to geek out on you 1980’s style, back when geek wasn’t cool.

Normally I would never post a Which Character Are You quiz, but I have a few reasons for doing so this time.

1) This quiz will create a Dungeons & Dragons character for you based on your answers. You know you’ve always wanted one or several or at least wondered what the heck is that game. And as anyone who has ever played a paper and pencil roleplaying game can tell you, the character creation part is the most exciting part. This quiz is pretty comprehensive.

2) Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, the man with a name fit for any wizard, died last week. While I never had a desire to meet him, his rulebooks did shape my thinking, my drawing, my studying, and the way I look at things to this day. They stretched my creativity to the limits, but they also made me respect The Rules. I remember many a night (in middle school no less) actually having a headache and brain fatigue from trying to create a better fantasy world for my group’s next big adventure. (Oh, the weight of the Dungeon Master’s robe is heavy.) This quiz honors him. May Gygax the Great shake Bigby’s Grasping Hand and dance Otto’s Irresistible Dance in Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion.

3) Come on, even Amy, my practical-based reality-anchored no-nonsense wife did the entire quiz. There’s got to be 1 or 2 of you who can do it too.

Anyways, it’s a long quiz, sorry, and will easily soak up 15 minutes, so I’ll understand if you just aren’t geek enough to find your inner adventurer.

Which D&D Character Are You?

My kids found my old D&D figures tonight. I haven’t seen them in years.

My results (and my comments in red):

SCOTT is a: Lawful Neutral Human Wizard - 5th Level

Ability Scores: (10 is average, 18 is the highest)
Strength-14
Dexterity-16 (I’d settle for 14)
Constitution-15 (this should be 12)
Intelligence-15 (can I switch a point of Constitution or Charisma for a 16 here?)
Wisdom-14
Charisma-10 (True. I want no part of leadership.)

Alignment:
Lawful Neutral A lawful neutral character acts as law, tradition, or a personal code directs him. Order and organization are paramount to him. He may believe in personal order and live by a code or standard, or he may believe in order for all and favor a strong, organized government. Lawful neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you are reliable and honorable without being a zealot (unless you bring up the C for Corea thing of course). However, lawful neutral can be a dangerous alignment because it seeks to eliminate all freedom, choice, and diversity in society. (I’m not quite that lawful. The second time I took the test, I got Neutral. A little Chaotic is good, as long as you’re still polite.)

Race:
Humans (most but not all people get this) are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Class:
Wizards (YESS!!) are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard’s strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her (rest in peace … The LIGER!). With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.

L to R: Basilisk, Redhot bard, Ochre Jelly, Intellect Devourer

Amy got this:

AMY is a: Neutral Good Human Bard (5th Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-11
Dexterity-13
Constitution-12
Intelligence-15
Wisdom-14
Charisma-16 (That’s my baby)

Alignment:
Neutral Good - A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Race:
Humans

Class:
Bards often serve as negotiators, messengers, scouts, and spies. They love to accompany heroes (and villains) to witness heroic (or villainous) deeds firsthand, since a bard who can tell a story from personal experience earns renown among his fellows. A bard casts arcane spells without any advance preparation, much like a sorcerer. Bards also share some specialized skills with rogues, and their knowledge of item lore is nearly unmatched. A high Charisma score allows a bard to cast high-level spells. (Amy didn’t really understand the whole bard thing but I think it’s a good fit in some sense. She likes to do funny spontaneous dances and she is disarmingly funny.)

Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?

Please post your results in the comments or post it on your own site and leave your link in the comments. I’d really like to see who’s in our adventuring party.

My old D&D miniatures. I painted dozens of these in high school.