Yea I was having a debate in my head about whether or not I may have just ruined your joke. Then I was like, "fuck it, I've made the comment and I'm sticking to it"
My very first character was a human fighter with these stats:
STR: 18/00 DEX: 18 CON: 18 INT: 10 WIS: 7 CHA: 18
The crazy thing was I got those stats in only around 7 re-rolls. To date, I've never had a character that lucky. I mean, 89 certainly isn't the highest, but it's pretty impressive for my class/race (minimums are all 3 except strength at 9), and the 1% chance of the /00 strength just blew my mind.
He was basically a one man murdering machine. I had him solo the gnoll stronghold around level 3 (I think), to see if I could. Well, the narrow passageway made that easy, but it was still a lot of fun!
I rolled a 97 for my human sorcerer when I first played BG2 kinda made me mad beings what the sorcerer has no primary attribute and can blast through the entire game just as easily with a roll of 50. That was the first character I completed BG2 with, great memories.
Not VERY ridiculous, but it's a 96 nonetheless. And this is of course the stat roll of my newly created character. It's with a paladin, the Strength score was just 18/19 though, which is a shame. But a 96 is a 96.
I'm funny - I would have wanted to seriously re-think my class with this one, which is why I wish it was STATS, then CLASS. When I roll Pen & Paper, the dice sometimes change my mind.
While paladins may get higher averages on average, I find Rangers (and equivalently Ranger/Clerics) get the most *playable* rolls, as they aren't limited to 17 or higher charisma. My half-elven cleric/rangers regularly get 90+ rolls in only a few tries.
I hate spending time rolling dice instead of playing so what I usually do is enable cheats and Ctrl-Shift 8 to get 18 everywhere. I then lower the stats to get something I consider "standard" for the type of character I'm playing. I probably always end up with very slightly overpowered characters but I've always resisted the temptation to leave like that to get a broken char.
For non-fighter type characters, I always did this. As a Fighter though I would always want an 18/## strength score, so I would have to do the rolls normally for something I found acceptable (and avoid feeling like I cheated for the 18/00). If I played a Cleric or Mage or something that I feel didn't need a high strength, I would just use the quick cheat and lower stats to something appropriate. Feeling like I cheated the game never really bothered me either - I just considered it as saving myself the time and headache of clicking that stupid reroll button a million times for a score I knew I would wait for anyway because I'm compulsive about that sort of thing. hehe.
Getting stuff beyond 95 is an Enigma to me...though my current 'Paladin' got *erm..check* 94 in 'her' 21th roll *hooozaah*! Tried my bg1-bg2 experimental character (dual fighter/cleric) but couldn't get any higher than 90 after 40minutes. The latter is more important to me, cause all healer in BG2 just suck (sorry) or are good but their combat sucks. And having a Grandmastery(patched ) decent healer with ridiculous fighting abilities and Crom Faeyr...nuff said.
And after I got some decent response in help, I really don't care anymore, what 18/xx strength I roll...cause the book boosts you nonetheless to 19.
Holy shit i just rolled a 98 after 1 hour with a Kensai (who has the lowest overall caps)!!! Only 18/38 str but who cares, tome of strength will fix it eventually. P.S. i'm playing BGT atm, about to start a no reload challenge.
Oh, I actually just added her to my group, took all her stuff then kicked her. The only person I've killed so far is Firebead ... Oh right, and then I had Khalid kill Jaheira, and then I killed Khalid, and thats it I swear!!!
Maybe now you know too much ... yoink, eat my wakisashi in your back.
30+ hours? wow.. !!! Well, my best BGEE roll so far (for a half-elf Sorceress) was 95, but it "just" took about 40 mins. - really bad thing was that during that time, I rolled 3x94s and 4x92s, too and somehow I really often seem to get 13s in every stat during rolling, too OoO.. now if those 13s just could be 16s, 17s or 18s ...
I like to think every rolled set of scores equates to another bhaalspawn somewhere else in the Realms. So if u spend 30 hours rolling then bhaal was quite the lady's man in your universe lol
I think 96 total was my personal best in the original but can't recall which class - I usually won't accept anything below 86 unless I am playing under a self inflicted rolling rule of some sort or the class doesn't require multiple high attributtes...
For BG:EE my best so far is an elf FMT with 90 (18/50, 19, 16, 18,11,8) - at the moment she is just getting started on what I hope is a no reload run (core) but upon death she may continue on in a Minimum reload campaign (reload on death or bug only) .
I rolled a 18/50, 18, 18, 11, 18, 18 on a Cavalier two nights ago.
Still at level 1 with a save in candlekeep as I hadn't really intended on playing that character just playing with the character creation, but I couldn't not save those stats so I think I'll play it anyway.
Playing a Fighter who will dual to a Mage in BG2:EE
16 17 17 18 11 8
And it felt like cheating after having hit "reroll" for the 5 minutes it took to get those. I'm trying a new style of tactical gameplay- not min-maxing as hardcore as I used to, so that the regular content is harder.
Just purchased & currently downloading the EE, but on my original playthrough back in the day, my fighter started out with the following stats. Quite symmetrical imho. 18/77 18 18 14 14 14
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9dex
7 con
9 int
11 wis
7cha
(The most ridiculous stats)
Which works out to the following for my gnome illusionist/cleric
STR: 18
DEX: 18
CON: 18
INT: 19
WIS: 17
CHA: 8
18
18
18
10
11
Best i rolled for a Kensai. Really hard to roll over 92-93 with a fighter, seeing as their caps are very low in most attributes.
STR: 19
DEX: 19
CON: 19
INT: 20
WIS: 20
CHA: 18
Which is just madness.
it was only a joke ; )
STR: 18/00
DEX: 18
CON: 18
INT: 10
WIS: 7
CHA: 18
The crazy thing was I got those stats in only around 7 re-rolls. To date, I've never had a character that lucky. I mean, 89 certainly isn't the highest, but it's pretty impressive for my class/race (minimums are all 3 except strength at 9), and the 1% chance of the /00 strength just blew my mind.
He was basically a one man murdering machine. I had him solo the gnoll stronghold around level 3 (I think), to see if I could. Well, the narrow passageway made that easy, but it was still a lot of fun!
DEX: 16
WIS: 17
CON: 16
CHA: 13
STR: 17
INT: 17
Not sure why I allocated stats like that, to be honest. I was young. >_>
12
9
18
18
18
18
The song "i had the time of my life" poped into my head with time being replace by roll!
-Endure, in enduring grow strong.
And after I got some decent response in help, I really don't care anymore, what 18/xx strength I roll...cause the book boosts you nonetheless to 19.
18/90
18
18
3
14
16
The good thing with this build is I can dual my Fighter to a Thief, Cleric or Druid builds near the end of the game, to later play in BG2EE
I stopped my thieving skills at 85 detect traps, 70 open locks, 20 hide, 20 move silently, 45 set traps, and the dex +1 tome will add +5 to each one.
Maybe now you know too much ... yoink, eat my wakisashi in your back.
Sorry for the indecipherable language :P
For BG:EE my best so far is an elf FMT with 90 (18/50, 19, 16, 18,11,8) - at the moment she is just getting started on what I hope is a no reload run (core) but upon death she may continue on in a Minimum reload campaign (reload on death or bug only) .
http://db.tt/UwgzpdJQ
Still at level 1 with a save in candlekeep as I hadn't really intended on playing that character just playing with the character creation, but I couldn't not save those stats so I think I'll play it anyway.
16
17
17
18
11
8
And it felt like cheating after having hit "reroll" for the 5 minutes it took to get those. I'm trying a new style of tactical gameplay- not min-maxing as hardcore as I used to, so that the regular content is harder.
Takes a tenth of the time it takes to roll a 99 for a Fighter/Mage/Thief. Who knew?
18/77
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18
14
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14