Stat Order

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:

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:

Random Notebook Photo

The confusion starts with this 5th Ed Sheet:

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.

I checked some Pathfinder sheet which have this SDCIWCh madness....

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....

Eldritch Moon Prerelease @ Dice House

Rules of Conduct

So a lot of game shops, especially the ones where they play a lot of Magic, have posted rules of behavior--generally stuff like

And there is often an expectation that Organized Play DM's are somehow responsible for enforcement

Which is a little crazy--I mean, for me, personally, I have very little interest in rules enforcement of any kind....I prefer shops with more playful signage

But I bet there is some good justification for some rules & I am curious what that may be. Maybe it is time to start a new tumblr to post Game Shop rules?

The Art of Magic: The Gathering Innistrad

Actual Play Curse of Strahd--D&D Encounters S22 S15