Handbooker Helper: Ability Scores
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- Six stats to rule them all! Join DM Matthew Mercer to learn all about D&D Ability Scores in the latest episode of our Player's Handbook tutorial series.
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One thing I've learning is to think about the three mental stats; Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma, as a pond.
Intelligence is how wide this pond is. How wide your own knowledge is, can be vast as a lake or thin as a puddle.
Wisdom is how deep it is. This is your depth of how to use the knowledge you've got. Your wisdom may be shallow like a splash or deep as an abyss.
Charisma is how much others want to drink from that pond. The pond may be sparkly and clean like that summer lake by the cabin or murky and deceitful as the oceans.
Well,t hat's my take in it at least.
That's a really good analogy!
Matt: You've got your dice, and you've-
My brain: YOU'VE GOT YOUR PERFECT WARLOCK!!
glad i'm not alone in this sam riegel shaped hell
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BUT YOU NEED A PLACE TO TRACK YOUR STUFF
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Don't be afraid of low scores. If you're going to fail at something, you might as well fail spectacularly.
Sam: "I rolled a zero."
ive been learning how to play for the last year and im now planning to teach a group of friends ant this series is so handy as a reminder of everything you need to know from the very beginning
I've been playing D&D for 24 years, but I've still been watching these. I just love listening to all of you!
I think this show is great, I think the content is useful, I’m glad it exists.
I hate the title so much. But I guess it wouldn’t be D&D without terrible puns.
I would bet the outtakes from these are super funny! Nice work Matt!
I've had this ridiculous jingle stuck in my head since y'all announced this show. Sung to the tune of Hamburger Helper's jingle from ages ago.
"Handbooker Helper! Helps you plan and campaign a great deal!"
There. Got it out of my system. Thanks.
Thank you for putting the actual stats in the bigger boxes, that's WHAT THEY WERE MADE FOR!
Best way I've heard someone describe the difference between intelligence and wisdom is
"It's hard to lie to a golem." Because even if their intelligence is super low, they'll still catch on to you pretty easily
Exactly what I needed :)
Yay Matt
intelligence is for knowing, wisdom is for understanding
no one:
matt: +15 charisma
You're not half bad yourself
Intelligence: Book smarts
Wisdom: Street smarts
Charisma: Social smarts
As a new player this is my biggest weakness in trying to start playing. Thanks so much for making it easy to understand
Please tell more is to come. I want to use this in our D&D club at school.
Silly Mercer. Every DM knows you can't go beyond 20 Charisma, yet here you are breaking those rules!
Matt: "And... is it game night yet?"
Me: "Well played good sir... Well played..."
Anyone else drunk and just want to really express how much they love Matt Mercer?
I know people were a bit confused about the Rogue video last week, myself included, but I'm glad we're back to basics. I know these aren't in any particular order, but it makes more sense to me if they get released in an order appropriate to how a newcomer should watch them. I know that isn't necessarily how it's intended, but I hope you can understand why the community may have been confused last time. This episode was great, and every episode of this has been as well.
Matt:
STR: 10
DEX: 13
CON: 15
INT: 18
WIS: 19
CHA: 30
Still waiting for Mercer to explain how he got his 20 in Charisma.
Then you put the numbers in the wrong place. The small box is for the overall score. The big box is for your modifier.
No, it's not. Everybody I've ever played with puts the score in the big box and the modifier in the little one.
our group rerolls 1s before dropping the lowest
That is no fun. Then you just put a bias towards high scores. Playing weak character is actually rather fun.
Intelligence vs Wisdom; yes, that makes sense. I still don't get why dexterity is for ranged weapons; sounds more like closest-thing-we-got thing.
In other news, that theme song is now stuck in my head.
Intel= Who, what, where, when.
Wis= Why.
Feelings have nothing to do with it :/
Love this series!
Great video - thanks CR team! ^_^
You put the modifier in the tiny circle instead of the big box?! SAVAGES
You put the modifier in the big box instead of the tiny circle?! SAVAGES
I think the modifier in the small box is the most used layout.
I prefer to be called infidel .
MightyPotato Yo but the number you need most at a glance is the modifier when ya play, so it should be most visible. BE FREE
Right? The official WotC way is the modifier in the big box and score in the tiny circle (D&D Beyond and Starter Set). Especially for new players, it would be best that the modifier is BIG and VISIBLE.
During this video I rolled my ability scores and got 13,17,13,17,14,11.
modifiers in the small bubble no
At level 1:
Strength 5, dexterity 20, constitution 17, intelligence 8 wisdom 19 charisma 16. Make a character go!
Dude that Looks Like a really good wood elf rogue.
I would have never guessed Matt was so hairy. A+
Strength 12
Dexterity 16/18 after racials
Constitution 13
Intelligence 13
Wisdom 15/16 after racials
Charisma 3
Guess I won’t be rolling up a Sorcerer or Bard.
If you’re a new player, how do know where to put the points, modifiers, saving throws, and proficiencies? Like a brand new player. The starter books sort of help, but I’m looking for a this “goes here” guide.
I usually just do what feels like it would make sense for the character. For example if you got a big intimidating strong barbarian you probably want to have a high strength score, a proficiency in intimidation and maybe a lower intelligence score.
Just wanted you to know that I clicked this video solely because you used such an amazing pun for the name. Good job.
I remember once I rolled a nat 20 on an intimidation check with a plus 3 mod and the DM failed the check (feels bad man)
I generally let players roll 7 times, and drop one of their scores as well. Just so that we don't end up with anyone having a 3 in one of their abilities. I'd rather my players be slightly overpowered than massively underpowered.
Other times I just have them roll 2d6 + 6.
Matt uses another rule:
After rolling all 6 ability scores, if they collectively add up to less than 70, Matt will let them do it again.
Then what do you do if you get an odd number over 10
10 and 11 is a 0 mod.
12 and 13 is a +1
14 and 15 is a +2
16 and 17 is a +3
18 and 19 is a +4
And 20 is a +5
This is why when you are able to get an ASI (Ability Score Increase), you can either give a single score a +2 (say taking an 18 and make it a 20). Or you can give a +1 to two different scores. So taking a 17 to an 18 and a 15 to a 16.
Intelligence: "This is a one-way street"
Wisdom: "We should still look both ways before crossing."
Axel Drans According to physics, hitting water from that height would still be lethal. It’d be like hitting concrete. Also, Matt made it _abundantly_ clear that it was very likely she would hit the rocks.
I defend Marisha for a lot of stupid and ignorant things people have said about her, but I do not defend her for the cliff. :P
Being able to swim or breath in the water isn't the problem. Not having your internal organs go splat when you hit the water is. Though that would be a matter of intelligence not wisdom I guess. As would realizing you won't clear the rocks.
@Axel Drans I'd like to think she knew it was a bad idea but went "fuck it"
Wisdom is all about feeling. And Keyleth definitely felt that cliff
@@samholden5758 goldfish are likely too small to hit terminal velocity, so they would most likely survive the fall if they cleared the rocks
My favorite way to explain the difference between Intellegence and Wisdom:
Intellegence is knowing that Frankenstein was not the monster.
Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster.
I just watched Overly Sarcastic Productions summary on Frankenstein and your comment just blew my mind!!!
Intelligence is book smarts.
Wisdom is street smarts.
I think I rolled high on both intelligence and wisdom cause i got both your statements #proud 😂
That is the best explanation I've seen yet! Well done
First you kick out the tail light. StreetSmarts!
D&D Stats Explained With Tomatoes
Strength is being able to crush a tomato. Dexterity is being able to dodge a tomato. Constitution is being able to eat a bad tomato. Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad. Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.
And being a player is knowing that a tomato based fruit salad is salsa, and to bring a couple jars to game night.
And knowing is half the battle!
Lolz!
I found the bard!
Mikemetal12 dang it I was gonna say that.
I suppose it should be reworded to 'deciding' not to put a tomato in a fruit salad. Intelligence seems to be more about acquiring knowledge, and wisdom about making good decisions. Input vs output.
My first thought when he mentioned not to worry about low scores, a certain line from an early episode of Campaign 1. "I 'ave an intelligence of six, I fink I know what I'm doin'."
Or Nott's animal handling check to drive the cart.
"...I'm still a scary goblin..."
That's exactly where my mind went too!
Arrival at kraghammer
Naw, the INT 6 dude is dead certain he knows.
I've been playing 5th edition for years now but I still watch these
Heinrich Bestbier I think that’s everyone. Let’s be real, there’s better videos for learning 5e than these 3 minute ones. But hey, It’s critical role. How could we not watch?
Agreed
I need to get my fix of Sam Riegel "Ding!", yknow
And not for the rules or guidelines, it's for Mr Mercer
Critical Roles Charisma Scores are just too damn high, you can't not watch.
"Weaknesses often make for memorable story points."
Matt: "Roll Deception"
Sam: "...Zero."
*Mercer snorts his drink up his nose*
Who else already knows everything about ability scores and is only watching this for Matt?
I could listen to Mercer reading my death sentence and still feel satisfaction.
Yo..
Matt Mercer is God. New Religion confirmed!
Yeeeeep...
He sounds like hes giving a math leason that makes me not want to die
Matt's charisma score would be one thousand.
At least.
@@jpumbaa1 You're right. It's probably infinite.
Yep. He's up there as the patron god of bards.
I'd say a 14 or 15
michael mcknight Heretic
Matt’s wiggles give me life, the dm wiggles™️
I personally think Taliesin's wiggles are cuter but Matt's are very cute indeed
Weaver Of Worlds Tal’s wiggles are also good
I loved when he was going his DM advice videos as well. He's always so delightfully expressive when talking about the game.
I did not really notice until I saw this post. Now I can't help but notice.
If someone is worried about a low score, just remember grog had 6 intelligence and vex had 7 strength
(At the beginning)
James Wilhoft and Tiberius had 4 wisdom 😆
And Nott 5 Charisma
And me 0 intelligence
@@emailmcgmail4485 nice
Oh yeah! I once played an Artificer with 18 intelligence and 5 wisdom, and it was really interesting to play that character
Matt: 'Is it gamenight yet?'
Me: MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER MILLER/MERCER THAT IS *NOT* HOW WE END VIDEOS ON THIS CHANNEL!!!!
Eliza Bijl Is it Thursday yet?
All hail the negative ability score, especially when it comes to strength. It makes for some funny moments if your playing a wizard whose has literally never lifted some thing heavier than a sack of potatoes.
my character has negative charisma and it's extremely fun. she's not shy, she has so little tact that she'll blurt out whatever she's thinking. some characters find it charming though.
I like role playing low strength as someone who might be tired a lot and can't really lift or push because of that
I have 8 dex so im usually slow to react and move last. Any ability check youre bad at allows for nice rp regarding it
My character in my group has 16 Str. The next two scores are tied at 10. That's the two Wizards! The rest of the party are all rogues and rangers with 8 Str. My typical line when they need someone with Athletics is 'Great, we got one guy wearing plate and seven who between them can't lift a cheese sandwich!'
And since the default unarmed strike does 1 + STR, trying to punch someone does no damage at all.
However they will suffer the embarrassment of having been punched in the nose by a not-strong -mathematician- spellcaster
I remember Stephen Colbert discussed rolling stats "back in the day."
They would roll 3d6 and stick with the score. If none were equal to or above 15, they would say their character would become a farmer, and they would roll a new character. The called this "death by farming."
So, basically, the character was automatically rejected?
Matt kinda does something similar.
After rolling all six ability scores, if they collectively add up to less than 70, he lets them roll up a new set.
from a 4 year old Reddit post:
Strength is being able to crush a tomato.
Dexterity is being able to dodge a tomato.
Constitution is being able to eat a bad tomato.
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.
Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.
Wisdom actually should be more in lines of being able to see if the tomato is not rotten. Knowing how to use tomatoes is still Intelligence.
Plenty of fruit salads use tomato, its normal in some countries.
"a tomato based fruit salad" Fruit Salsa. Get your Fruit Salsa right here.
Hey, guys, I found the Bard!
yes some one said that in the original post i do not claim this as mine much as i wish i had
One of my favorite characters was a Tortle Cleric who rolled a 4 Charisma. Heeeeee waaaaaass a reeeeeeeeal slooooooooow taaaaaaaaalker aaaaand realllly loooooved to teeeeelll veeeerrryy deeetaiiilled stoooorieeeees.
I'm playing a low charisma cleric who doesn't know how words are pronounce and even makes up words making them somewhat unintelligible.
Normal way of talking: Alright then we should check out the cemetery and see if there are are signs of necromancy.
My cleric: Are-right, lets check up the semi-tary and seas if day gots necromacity.
@@beastwarsFTW ...okay I love necromacity. please tell me she has a southern drawl because that's exactly how I read that comment.. 😂😂
Omg I love this tortle already
Nice episode of Handbooger Heifer, great job team!
I think your hand was too slight.
My cleric has a wisdom of 18 and an intelligence of 6. Honestly, she does some stupid things, but sometimes comes up with philosophical things to say. Whenever someone gets hurt she yells out, "Don't worry I'll heal you in a second!"
correct me if im wrong..... warlocks dont have healing magic?
@@christophercrafte she said Cleric.
But Warlocks DO get healing magic. The Celestial patron gives healing spells. And if you take Path Of The Chain with it your familiar can make all your healing stronger in a certain radius around it if you take an Eldrich Invocation from Guide To Everything
SHIT how did I miss that I swear I saw warlock
also this was informative even if I somehow saw the word warlock
I've got that the other way around with my wizard, 8 wisdom, 18 intelligence :D
Who here knows what ability scores are for but just want to hear that epic Sam Reigel theme song?
0:03 *wiggle*
Sam's ding at the end gets me every time, I love it so much
I have never before considered Matt's chest hair, and now it's hard to focus on anything else in this video.
Thank goodness, now we can be creepy about a guy's cleavage together :D
Omg. I’ve found my people! 😂
My thoughts exactly. I have never seen them, and now that’s the only thing I see xD
So what you're saying is you've never watched Proxy. ;)
Damn you!
you misspelled *sleight* of hand ;-P
It got me too
oh yeah i missed that.
I guess we all can say that it's a *sleight* mistake.
Lol did you see Sam's flask on the episode after?
Roast
Many years ago, when I was in high school, (in the wayback of the late 80's) I had a D&D group, and we played pretty much every day. It was a boarding school, so there was little else to do. We rotated who was the DM, between me, and two others. One of the others, Doug I think his name was, once had this fun idea to start everyone out as NPC classes. Merchants and the like, and confined our ability rolls in a very peculiar way.
Basically, we would roll each ability in turn, and what we got, was what that ability score was, rather than placing them where they would be most advantageous. It was kind of weird, even then, but we were always game for trying something new, and as we were already playing NPC classes, figured Doug knew what he was up to, and gave it a shot.
We all rolled a mix of high and low scores, and off we went, a bunch of characters poorly prepared for adventuring, trying to adventure. The basic concept Doug was playing with was to let us choose our class by way of our actions in the first adventure. My character found a sword, and in a moment of panic, as we were being attacked by Goblins, grabbed it and started swinging wildly. He had a Strength of 8. By the end, I was the Fighter, because my character was too terrified to be without the long, sharp, stabby thing.
He was a terrible fighter, obviously. The Wizard only had an Intelligence of 10, though, and the Rogue ended up being the guy with a 6 Dexterity. We never did end up being very good adventurers, but we had a real blast with that party being terrible at everything. Doug decided that his concept was better in theory than practice, and despite us kind of wanting to do it again, refused to ever run a campaign full of people poorly suited to their roles again.
Point being, have fun with bad ability scores. They really can be more fun than you might imagine, if you're willing to embrace it, and have that fun.
Well, fun for everyone but the DM, anyway, who had to spend the whole time herding cats.
(ASMR) Jotaro teaches you how to play d&d instead of taking care of his daughter
Love this channel.
Thanks for the great handfuc... oops I mean handbooker helper video!
I really needed this on monday for my school dnd group
Warmed this old DM's heart seeing the Ability Score in the big box and the modifier in the circle. As is tradition, of course. :)
i really mcfrickin love these videos, man
rolled 4 1's.. I now have the weakest gnome druid in exandria
Here's hoping you never get hit with a weakening spell.
With my friends, we always reroll the 1s, so we don't have too much bad stats. We rarely have something under 10 like that
@@Myrilia a good idea is to a have a maximum of ones to reroll or only one 1 for each score if you want. But if you like it the way you're already doing it HAVE FUN!
Dang, you didnt get to re-roll at least ONE of the 1's????
@@herz5159 Good idea! My boyfriend is a stat whore, as he call himself so he likes having big stats. However it would be fun to try "flawed" caracters. Of course we can still give them flaws no matter the stats!
1:55 Also ale.
You should pitch these to D&D Beyond! For all those DM's that need to show new players breakdowns of the PH.
Intelligence: We have more people, we have the advantage.
Wisdom: Yes, but they know we're coming and no victory is certain until it is.
Had to watch this twice because of Matt's manly chest hair.
Next episode: All wizard spells, conditions and how to DM
in six minutes!
Intelligence is knowing you can stab a tree
Wisdom is knowing you probably shouldn't stab a tree.
This is the prime example that came up in the first session of my first D&D campaign.
It was also the flavour text to the +1 Wisdom shortsword the player got for stabbing a tree.
Best way I've ever heard to explain intelligence versus wisdom is: intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing that a tomato does not go in a fruit salad.
Found the rules lawyer.
There are fruit salads that contain tomato.
But being in touch with other people's tastes would be wisdom. Hence, you would know not to put the tomato there.
Tokat Storm your comment makes no sense to me, if you were in touch with other people's tastes you'd know tomato can go anywhere they want it to, including fruit salad.
In many places around the world if you ask for a fruit salad you'll get a tomato salad.
I'm just trying to save the joke
Sadly, "sleight" was slighted by "slight" with that misspelling.
The difference between Intelligence and Wisdom is the difference between knowing if a plant is poisonous and knowing if the person who told you that is lying to you.
Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein wasn't the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was the monster.
Yeah, you're certainly correct there. I'm not sure that I necessarily agree with it myself. That said, I feel that it's an interesting, memorable, and just a little bit confusing description that's worth consideration.
I am very happy I looked this up. I am very new or on this case "Fresh Meat" to Dungeons and Dragons. My freinds introduced me to it and I found it very interesting. Again, just wanted to say thanks for the video and explaing the information!! I really appreciate it.😊
ONE THING no one can explain in a way that it actually makes sense: WHY can a wizard only remember a certain amount of spells per day? it is by far the worst system regarding magic. not to mention the weird names for some spells. plus you do not need corpses for necromancy. in all the other regards we can talk about if it actually IS a good system.
Friend: *recommends D&D*
Me: *indecisive noises*
Matt: *teaches D&D*
Me: *happy noises*
I just started playing DnD recently for the first time, and this has very much helped me get a clear understanding of each ability score. Very helpful, a simple yet clear definition.
Dexterous
Low constitution
Middle intelligence
Wisdom a littel higehr than middle avergae.
High charisma
Is a very people person
Just for anyone struggling to remember when an ability score affects your modifier, and how much that modifier is you can follow this simple formula; (ability score - 10)/2 (rounded down). That will give you the appropriate modifier for any score.
I still believe nature should be a wisdom ability. It’s wild to play a low INT Druid that fails a nature check all.the.time.
Not D&D but i played a Minotaur Berserker in Savage World who had a very low Intelligence dice (instead of stats you level up the kind of dice you use, so my str would be a d12 dice, which is max, and my int would be a d6 dice) so he would often do dumb things, but knows much about things he grew up with and learned. This always leads to accidental puns....i mean suriously, i never said so many puns in my life ever.
Lizardman: "Big boy, you have be on the same level as your woman, you have to show her how much you love her by being understanding, not just how strong you are!"
Minotaur: "Hey, i know that i have to go down on my Tiefling lady, but I am very big!"
*Whole table erupts in laughter*
The thumbs down are from people who rolled low on all stats.
but rolling low is fun, take it from a 6 charisma monk
It's not as much fun when that Monk's Dexterity and Wisdom are 14 and 11, respectively.
Intelligence: Book smarts.
Wisdom: *John Mulaney voice* Street Smarts!
At 1:22 you misspelled Sleight of Hand as "Slight of Hand". Otherwise great video.
I still find it weird that both intimidation and persuasion are impacted by the same stat (charisma), considering they're opposites of handling a social situation.
For example, I have a Bugbear character with a decent charisma stat. It makes sense he would be able to easily intimidate foes given he's about 7 and half feet of fur, muscle, long limbs, and teeth. But it's strange that he's equally as effective at sweet talking them and diplomacy.
A lot of dungeon masters let players use their strength modifier for intimidation.
At 4:32 OMG! Finally, an explanation of this that makes sense and my players and I can remember! Thank you! This is awesome. =P
Even for someone whos played before these videos are nice and helpful.
Also who doesnt love having Matt explain things!
Little known truth: Charisma isn't how "pretty" or "charming" you are, it's more how much you have an impact on the world around you, or how memorable you are.
For example, A beautiful elven woman in an elegant dress, with flawless features and an aura that entrances everyone around her...
And a horrifying, hideous monster that strikes fear into the hearts of those it sees, drives lesser men mad, and causes those around them to quiver and shake in terror for not only their lives, but their very souls
Could very well have the exact same Charisma score.
Intelligence in Data, Wisdom is Picard.
I never understood why medicine is Wis based. It's a learned trade and skill, it's about how much you know about the human-ish body in front of you and how you apply that knowledge. It should be Int, no questions asked.
In modern times medicine is a learned trade. In a quasi-late-medieval setting, medicine means herbalism, and diagnosis is a matter of hunch.
Yee no, even olden times had medical knowledge that you needed to have and be able to use intellectually.
Doesn't matter that your knowledge told you that bloodletting is only good during Mars's incline towards Saturn on the third Thursday of the month. It's still knowledge you have to intellectually process to use it properly.
And if you use herbs that applied, even more, you may not know the chemical compounds or the exact physiological processes you are triggering, but you had your mouldy tome handed down from your master describing 10.000 herbs and in what combination and dosage to use them for what ailment. It's learned knowledge you had to process and apply.
Medicine should be an Int skill plain and simple.
@@TheMonstersKnow agreed, it's clear that medicine in D&D sense is basically ye old house remedies, not a intellectual understanding of the living body. So Wisdom is a appropriate stat.
What if you have all 20 ability scores?
Thanks for the portuguese subtitles
Thank you all for this series lol I’m rolling my first ever DnD character and participating in my first ever campaign (ok its more like a one shot that’s gonna happen once a month for three months but hey). I have the handbook but this is so much easier to understand.
finding this 5 years later, I have a question. I noticed there was no mention of racial benefits, is there a reason why? One page 13 "Building Bruenor, Step 3" it mentions adding racial benefits before looking up the modifiers. I just want to make sure I am doing this the generally "accepted way"