I’m actually writing in google docs but I copy/paste into Writer’s Tools, which is the one I posted a screenshot of. It helps me get an idea of where I’m at in word count.
It started as a mobile app but I think if you have the pro version you can try the beta for laptop. The app is Writer’s Tools.
It has a lot of options and pro allows you to have multiple stories on it at a time (this was when I got it at least, I don’t know if they’ve changed it). There’s a section for making characters, places, and a lot more.
The word count does not match counts for google docs and AO3 though. General area but not the same.
This is a part of my series of roleplaying your dump and star stats. Much like the pirate code, these aren’t rules, but more like guidelines. And even more like the pirate code, you can pick and choose what’s lit and what’s not, and even add your own.
Defining Dump and Star Stats:
Dump Stats: Your lowest score: (0-9)
Star Stats: Your best stats (16-20)
Let’s get some definitions down. According to google: skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands. The Player’s handbook says: physical agility, reflexes, balance, poise.
Few people are brave enough to have a low dexterity because it’s tied to your armor class (in some cases) and your initiative score. So 10-12 could also work in considering this a dump stat.
1. You’re Clumsy
You’re not the most graced when walking and handling objects. I am a very clumsy person. When someone asks me to hold something very fragile, I always preface that I am not the person to be holding it because I will trip over my own feet and accidentially drop it.
Role playing this could be vocalizing the way you walk. “I trip over my feet on the way out.” “I’m not really paying attention and clip the pillar with my shoulder.” “I drop my fork in during the formal dinner.”
2. You have a “Go with the flow” mentality
Sometimes being last in Initiative, or taking it slow is a good way to showcase a low dexterity. This would be for the really relaxed (or perhaps a stoned) character who just kinds takes life day by day.
3. You’re loud
This is bouncing off of stealth. You’re loud and abrasive, wearing bright colors and having amazing and complex hairstyles and colors. You will not be hiding any time soon, because you want to be the center of attention. You want to be seen.
4. You’re bad with your hands.
You’re not that great with your hands. You’re not the most delicate person when it comes to handling the fragile, kind of like Lenny from Of Mice and Men. You’re probably not good at creating things and have sloppy hand writing.
But don’t think this has to be with low intellegence. Some people just aren’t great with their fingers.
5. You have a muscular related disease
Maybe you’re in a wheel chair, that doesn’t mean you can’t be a hero! Or, you could have a muscle spasm or something in a similair vein that results in involuntary movement.
So those are my thoughts! Add some more if you got some great ideas.
Coming up next: playing your star stat: Intellegence.
Re: black cat note tabs, ever try silver Sharpies?
I had a silver pen once. It wasn’t a Sharpie but some silver permanent marker contraption that had to be shaken before use and then its (nib? tip? dispenser?) pumped up and down a couple of times on scrap paper before the (ink? paint? fluid?) started to flow.
Which was all very fine and pleasant until the day it decided to go off in my shirt pocket. 8-o
I probably shouldn’t have had it in said shirt pocket, but when I’d carried every other writing implement there from a well-chewed pencil to Diane’s Mont Blanc 146 fountain-pen, I assumed that this writing implement would be okay too.
Assume again. It turned out that SILVER PERMANENT MARKER was a more accurate description than LEAKPROOF.
It was silver, it marked and good grief it was certainly permanent. When the goop dried, which it did almost at once, what had been linen became rigid enough to qualify as +2 armour, at least around the pocket.
