But what the hell does that even mean? 120 pounds is not alot and most men could do much more than that. What i am trying to say is how does it not calculate how strong you punch or how much can lift. Lifting a backpack like that is laughable for most people.

Edit-Also if you are talking about lifting then think of people in the military where sometimes you have to lift a 200 pound person over your shoulder to get them to safety. Where does that fit into it?

I made a few changes, please feel free to +1 my trolling :)

Nonsense. You can be as strong as an ox, able to punch Mike Tyson out and yet not be able to lift a sack of potatoes. Strength is not defined by one feat or another. Again, nonsense. Intelligence encompasses far more than simple IQ tests would have you believe. Nope. Dexterity is primarily a measure of adeptness with the hands. Constitution, in a bodily sense, is your physical makeup. Are you fat, thin, large boned, small boned? That has absolutely no bearing on D&D constitution, which cannot be assigned to a real person.

Why such low stats? Wouldn't it be better to have stats as high as Graham's Number?

More realistically, if you get a 3 digit bonus, shouldn't you have 3 digit stats (or at least stats approaching that point)?

I commented in another thread about what Baal's (from Disgaea) stats would look like. I already concluded that Disgaea's level 4000 would be comparable to level 800 in AD&D rules.

I wouldn't look into it that much. This is a nonsensical thread anyways.....

You make some very convincing points. I'm going to have to rethink how I interpret ability scores.

That thing about IQ reminds me of a psychology class I took in college. It focused on mental illnesses so it was more like a psychiatry class. Anyway, my prof was saying that the concept of IQ started out as a way to see if a child required special needs in school. He said it wasn't really a big deal until it went to the States, and after that he said "when Americans get a hold of something, they usually make a mess of it". Before anyone gets worked up about that quote, those were his words, not mine.

In response to dtgreene's question, 25 is the highest stat allowable. I was obviously joking when I gave out my own stats but I don't think you can really compare a game with higher numbers to D&D numbers.

Let's say I make a barbarian in Diablo. I can see that he's pretty jacked and he has a strength of 100. I don't really think it's possible to calculate how he would perform in Baldur's Gate. That's more of a guesstimate though, I'm usually wrong about these kind of things.

I think it makes more sense than the alignment thread, at any rate. (Especially since one person's evil is another person's good.)