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<blockquote data-quote="ProgBard" data-source="post: 6767861" data-attributes="member: 6803722">I am finding this in some ways to be the most fascinating assertion in the thread, and would love to hear more. I think the way individual players frame where a score of 8 falls on the human spectrum probably says a great deal about the assumptions they bring to the characters and the game.I would have assumed an 8 in an attribute represents a pretty distinct &quot;low average&quot; - a person who is markedly behind the curve (notably undermuscled, or awkward, or unobservant, or - you get the idea). On the Fate scale, you'd mirror that with Poor, and a 10 as one tick up at Mediocre.*But I suspect my assumption there is not universally shared, and other gamers might interpret an 8 to be much more solidly in the midrange of average - Fate's Mediocre, with a 10 as Fair instead.I'm not sure which of these is &quot;right&quot; as intended by the designers, or if it matters. I imagine there's some room for individual interpretation there. And it sort of spotlights how easy it is to assume your own reading is obviously the correct one, at your peril. (I still cock an eyebrow at the Commoner-with-10s-across-the-board representing everyone from tillers of soil to skilled artisans, though. But that's probably a bit afield for this particular discussion.)*Ballparking, natch, with your standard disclaimer of the inadvisability of drawing direct lines between one system's math/simulation/assumptions and another's.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ProgBard, post: 6767861, member: 6803722"] I am finding this in some ways to be the most fascinating assertion in the thread, and would love to hear more. I think the way individual players frame where a score of 8 falls on the human spectrum probably says a great deal about the assumptions they bring to the characters and the game. I would have assumed an 8 in an attribute represents a pretty distinct "low average" - a person who is markedly behind the curve (notably undermuscled, or awkward, or unobservant, or - you get the idea). On the Fate scale, you'd mirror that with Poor, and a 10 as one tick up at Mediocre.* But I suspect my assumption there is not universally shared, and other gamers might interpret an 8 to be much more solidly in the midrange of average - Fate's Mediocre, with a 10 as Fair instead. I'm not sure which of these is "right" as intended by the designers, or if it matters. I imagine there's some room for individual interpretation there. And it sort of spotlights how easy it is to assume your own reading is obviously the correct one, at your peril. (I still cock an eyebrow at the Commoner-with-10s-across-the-board representing everyone from tillers of soil to skilled artisans, though. But that's probably a bit afield for this particular discussion.) [SIZE=1]*Ballparking, natch, with your standard disclaimer of the inadvisability of drawing direct lines between one system's math/simulation/assumptions and another's.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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