Today is the
start of a brand new month and I have decided that it was time for me to start
an epic Quest. With each new month I like to reflect on the month that has just
past and try to think of what it is that I need to do to get what I want our of
life. As of the recent I have been using this reflection period for looking at
this, my blog, and how I could go about to improve upon it. I have been using
this blog as a means for me to set up many different goals that I want to
achieve and as a means of sharing and expressing myself up until now the posts
have seen kind of random.
Finally I
figured out a way for all of my different interests that I post about to
converge on one ultimate unifying purpose. For my future blog harmony I plan on
using an element that I have derived from one of my many different geeky hobbies.
The system I am foreshadowing about is that I have decided upon making a
role-playing stat sheet based on me that will reflect who I am in a real life
representation.
The project in
question I have named the “Role-Playing Game In Real Life” and for it I was
going to have to make my very own character sheet. For this project it required
a little bit of research on my part of a few different types of role-playing
games. To make the “Role-Playing Game In Real Life” (or RPG IRL for short) I came
to the decision to use the D20 Modern character sheet as a starting point for
my own.
Using one of
the main ideas of character creation from Dungeons & Dragons the baseline
stats for attributes are a ten. By using this baseline stat as a bases and
taking into account what I have done in my life I came up with stats of my own.
The
Attributes are as follows
Strength: Body Might and Brawn, A measure of how physically strong I am.
Dexterity: Agility, Reflexes and Quickness, A measure of how coordinated I
am.
Constitution: Stamina, Endurance and Vitality, A measure of how resilient I am
Intelligence: Mind, Brains and Intellect, A measure of how knowledgeable I am
Willpower: Spirit, Wits and Psyche, A measure of how mentally resilient I am
Charisma: Presence, Charm and Social, A measure of how sociable I am
One thing
that is a general constant among all of the Role-Playing Games is that on top
of the character attributes the characters also have defined skill sets. While I
was in the process of building a character sheet it dawned on me that I needed
to pick a group of skills that were actually relevant to real-life. The
challenge to picking these skills is that they had to be realistic and
achievable, that means things like “spell casting” are a big fat no go.
The set of
skills that I finally chose are mostly from the D20 Modern character sheet because
it seemed to meet my purposes the best. I will not go through all of the
different skills from that set and why I chose them nor will I list all those
that I cut from the list.
The way that
most Role-Playing games work is that as you play you gain experience and your
stats then level up accordingly. As for how to go about leveling all of these
stats up in real life I had to put a little bit of thought into how that would
happen. After quite a bit of pondering I finally decided that the best way to
accomplish this is with a completion bar method.
With the
completion bars idea this means that each ability stat gets a percent bar as
well as the total level. As I accomplish different types of challenges the
progress bars will go up accordingly in 5% increments until the bar is full and
the level or stat goes up by one point. Each challenge that is completed will
improve a related ability score as well as go into the overall level status
bar.
For example
let us say I do an obstacle course that would increase my strength by 5% and my
dexterity by 5%, therefore my total level bar would go up by 10%.
I figured
that because I have already achieved some things in my life that I would start
myself at level two. On top of not starting off at level one I know that of the
skills listed I have actually started learning some of them and due to past
training I gave myself the Computer use and the repair skill. Also I know can
speak English fairly well so I put that in the skills as well and I am actually
hoping to one day fill the other two speak language slots.
On the sheet
on this page I have included the completion bar increases from my recent 5k run
for the cure that I will be posting about later today.
Now I think
that I have explained this to the best of my ability and I cannot wait to begin
increasing my personal scores. I am also looking for any suggestions that may
help me to improve this system so leave them in the comments below. Also I
welcome any and all questions about this that you may have and I will answer
them to the best of my ability.
Sincerely Urban Yeti
