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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4978596" data-attributes="member: 4937">A 10 charisma may well exceed that of some of the players at the table, so its not that constraining.&nbsp;&nbsp; Likewise, while I've yet to meet a player that I would rate as having 8 INT in real life, an 8 INT is only barely below average and reflects the ability of alot of people we've met in real life and quite a few famous people (many actors, professional football players, reporters, etc.).&nbsp;&nbsp; An 8 INT may not even be that obvious if the person has a decent charisma and you don't ask them to do alot of reasoning or knowledge retrieval.&nbsp; You might know someone for a while before it even occurs to you that they are below average intelligence.&nbsp; Nothing prevents a person with 8 INT from being a fully functional and successful person.&nbsp; I would definately appreciate a person trying to play an 8 INT, but my experience with people RPing an 8 INT is that they tend to overplay the stupidity and make it a really defining trait rather than merely one aspect of the character to be occasionally refered to.&nbsp; I wouldn't have a big problem with a player with an 8 INT character participating to the extent of his own intelligence with only minimal RP cover for this, in part because IRL I've worked with actual mentally retarded people who have said clever things on occasion.&nbsp; So if you want to play a 'Forest Gump' character who is insightful without being aware or conscious of his insight, that's fine with me.&nbsp;&nbsp; What I might think as taking it to far would be playing a 8 INT character who consistantly takes the lead role in planning, solving problems, and investigation.&nbsp; That suggests that you didn't really want to play an 8 INT character at all, but were just power gaming.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 4978596, member: 4937"] A 10 charisma may well exceed that of some of the players at the table, so its not that constraining. Likewise, while I've yet to meet a player that I would rate as having 8 INT in real life, an 8 INT is only barely below average and reflects the ability of alot of people we've met in real life and quite a few famous people (many actors, professional football players, reporters, etc.). An 8 INT may not even be that obvious if the person has a decent charisma and you don't ask them to do alot of reasoning or knowledge retrieval. You might know someone for a while before it even occurs to you that they are below average intelligence. Nothing prevents a person with 8 INT from being a fully functional and successful person. I would definately appreciate a person trying to play an 8 INT, but my experience with people RPing an 8 INT is that they tend to overplay the stupidity and make it a really defining trait rather than merely one aspect of the character to be occasionally refered to. I wouldn't have a big problem with a player with an 8 INT character participating to the extent of his own intelligence with only minimal RP cover for this, in part because IRL I've worked with actual mentally retarded people who have said clever things on occasion. So if you want to play a 'Forest Gump' character who is insightful without being aware or conscious of his insight, that's fine with me. What I might think as taking it to far would be playing a 8 INT character who consistantly takes the lead role in planning, solving problems, and investigation. That suggests that you didn't really want to play an 8 INT character at all, but were just power gaming. [/QUOTE]

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