A common question when people see one of my short character stat-blocks: "What is the X for?" Because they're looking at something like: "S17, I10, W13, D12, C15, X10". (For example, see my cut-down character sheets here.)
And my answer is (the title probably gave it away): "That's a Greek letter 'Chi' which is standing in for Charisma". From Wikipedia: "charisma (pl. charismata, adj. charismatic; from the Greek χαρισμα, meaning 'favor given' or 'gift of grace')" This being my minimally-clever way of having a one-character abbreviation for each ability (and dodging the two-"c" issue between constitution & charisma).
This week's edition of Delta's D&D Hotspot has been brought to you by the letter Chi.
I kind of like that. :)
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Can’t believe I never thought of it myself.
ReplyDeleteVery Xlever!
ReplyDeleteNeat idea. Yoinked!
ReplyDeleteThat's brilliant! I've typeset my character sheets in LaTeX so that's doubly nice.
ReplyDeleteI do that too!
ReplyDeleteWriting the footnotes for my house rules I was just wondering where I picked that up from. Mad props!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! :-)
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