doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
I'm curious...Do you bother trying to roleplay the character according to the Int score you choose? Does anybody do so in your group?
Ya know how sometimes ya dislike something, really really stongly, and like...the dislike itself isn't really irrational, but the severity of it is?
That's me, with DM's and groups that insist that someone "has" to "roleplay their stats".
Like...are you gonna make the bard player make a new character because his RL charisma is, at best, a 10? Are you really gonna kvetch at the low strength rogue player every time he grabs his pack and doesn't roleplay grunting with effort?
Why? Why any of it? Unless someone has an int of less than 8 somehow, they aren't necessarily actually stupid. 8 can just as easily be a perfectly normal person who isn't "book smart", because the have a low education level, and never applied themselves to such pursuits. Especially a high Wis character with low Int. But even if it is strictly a marker of the person's IQ (imagining, for a moment, that IQ is unambiguously an accurate system of measurement), so what? an 8 is slightly less intelligent than the general average. Ok. So...for 90% of situations, a typical person.
More importantly:
Why would I ever, as a player, put up with anyone at the table telling me what my stat numbers mean for my character?
Why would I ever, as a DM, feel like I have the right to do that to one of my players?