Recently, Brian asked me “what is the official order of D&D Character Stats”–which seems like a simple question, to me….In fact, I quickly responded with SIWDCCh, a word which is in my Dictionary and has been the only possible answer that I have ever heard or considered.
I base my response on this:
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| 1st Edition Character sheet |
Which was the first ‘official’ character sheets I ever saw. Before these were available I used pen and paper, but I did write the stats in this order.
I flipped through a recent notebook to ensure that I write them in the same order still:
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| Random Notebook Photo |
The confusion starts with this 5th Ed Sheet:
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| 5th Edition Character Sheet |
which has Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, & Charisma–just plain wrong.
The Stats are “grouped” correctly–with S & Ch book-ending the pairs [Dex / Con & Int / Wis]; but, overall this order is just crazy.
The Stats are “grouped” correctly–with S & Ch book-ending the pairs [Dex / Con & Int / Wis]; but, overall this order is just crazy.
I checked some Pathfinder sheet which have this SDCIWCh madness….
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| Pathfinder Character Sheet |
Is that one of the differences between D&D and Pathfinder? Does everyone else already know this & I am just late to the game?
So confused….
David Given Schwarm 
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