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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6965448" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Sounds like everyone including your brother might be better off if he just rolled up a higher-Int character (or have the DM give him a Potion Of Setting Int to 13) so that both you and he are okay with him engaging with his full abilities. Or is being &quot;stupid&quot; something he is deliberately seeking and would miss if it went away?P.S. In a lot of ways it's easier to play someone completely stupid than someone who's just moderately less intelligent than yourself. As Greg Cochran once put it (<a href="https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-object-of-emulation/" target="_blank">https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-object-of-emulation/</a>), &quot;Probably one would have to be a lot smarter than average to effortlessly simulate normality, particularly in real time. It is said that John von Neumann could do this.&quot; (The joke here is that von Neumann was basically a human supercomputer. Smarter than Einstein in raw IQ terms, but less creative: <a href="http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2012/03/only-he-was-fully-awake.html" target="_blank">http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2012/03/only-he-was-fully-awake.html</a>)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6965448, member: 6787650"] Sounds like everyone including your brother might be better off if he just rolled up a higher-Int character (or have the DM give him a Potion Of Setting Int to 13) so that both you and he are okay with him engaging with his full abilities. Or is being "stupid" something he is deliberately seeking and would miss if it went away? P.S. In a lot of ways it's easier to play someone completely stupid than someone who's just moderately less intelligent than yourself. As Greg Cochran once put it ([url]https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-object-of-emulation/[/url]), "Probably one would have to be a lot smarter than average to effortlessly simulate normality, particularly in real time. It is said that John von Neumann could do this." (The joke here is that von Neumann was basically a human supercomputer. Smarter than Einstein in raw IQ terms, but less creative: [url]http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2012/03/only-he-was-fully-awake.html[/url]) [/QUOTE]

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