Hey, I’m all for nostalgia, but reordering it to separate the physical stats from the mental ones was a very good idea. I’m pretty sure my first game back when I was… 10? (long time ago)… also used the Str Int Wis order. But you know… that order got changed REAL fast… 2e, iirc. And good riddance.
Those are SO not in the order I remember back when I used to pay.
It was:
STR
INT
WIS
DEX
CON
CHA.
As an added bonus, I remember the coin on the character sheets as being:
Gold
Silver
Copper
Platinum
Electrum
Probably helps to know I played in the late 70’s when campaigns like Keep on the Borderlands was a new thing and came in a box.
I think it was 3e that changed it so that the stats are grouped as physical, then mental. And decimalized the coinage, for that matter.
Hey, I’m all for nostalgia, but reordering it to separate the physical stats from the mental ones was a very good idea. I’m pretty sure my first game back when I was… 10? (long time ago)… also used the Str Int Wis order. But you know… that order got changed REAL fast… 2e, iirc. And good riddance.
Wasn’t it copper-silver-electrum-gold-platinum? That would be the order of value as I remember it but I haven’t looked at the boxed stuff in years.
You’d think, but nope. Not as I recall.