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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2312708" data-attributes="member: 4937">I've not seen alot of PC's with intelligence of 7 or less, and I would frankly discourage it.  I simply don't think the average role player is skilled enough (and sufficiently unconcerned by success) to consistantly roleplay a 7 intelligence character.   The intelligence gap between the player and the character is just too great.   Which is a good reason not to be playing characters of that low intelligence.  Actually, in a medieval world there aren't alot of institutions, and 5-7 intelligence people end up driven out in to the wilderness and if they survive end up being 'ogres'.  The lucky ones end up in a monestary or some such, and the story of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' shows that its possible for Quasimodo to be a hero - but I doubt the ability of most players to stay in character.   The easiest way to handle it would be tell the player that he has the intellect and understanding of a 2nd grader, but even that's going to be a problem if the player had a 9th or 12th grade reading level in the 2nd grade.Similar things apply to other very low attributes.  Such a character is playable by a very skilled player, but it also requires cooperation from a skilled party willing to provide continual care for the character.   It's not something that I'd recommend.The only problem I have with that is that it means your average ordinary genious has a 18 INT.  If we follow the same logic, this implies that in any group of 10000 or so people, there are 60 people who have an attribute in the 20-25 range.    PC's are naturally going to wonder why thier Wizard has 'only' an 18 INT, or thier rogue doesn't have the 24 DEX of a professional athelete, etc.  I mean, if this is the way attributes are distributed, I'd expect every other gaming group has at least one member with over 18 INT.I always make the assumption that a disabled PC recieved the best possible care and as such makes the very most of thier talents.  Deaf PC's speak sign language fluently, can read or write, read lips, and so forth.   A character with a 5 intelligence (assuming this is 50 IQ) - and assuming that he trusts the other PC's completely and they are willing to care for him, could presumably be as able bodied as a dull 3rd grader, capable of counting, doing simple arithmatic, dressing himself, writing his name, and reading small words.  I expect that IQ's in the 60-80 range are far more common than your average gamer realizes, simply because his natural proclivities have led him into a social strata in which almost everyone has IQ's in the 120+ range.   But for every gamer group, there are probably several social groups out there were must everyone has an IQ in the 60-80 range, or if not then are at least severely learning disabled in one area.  You likely never meet them because they don't do what you do and they don't go to the places you go and they didn't take the same classes that you took in HS.  But to normal people they will seem to be normal right until they are challenged with some sort of academic problem, because alot of these people are basically functional - they just can't do higher math, etc.</blockquote>

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