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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 1358743" data-attributes="member: 2486">Consider incurring much more substantial penalties to the ability scores.  Under this model, a good third of children aged 8 are as strong as the average man (unmodified 13) and a nearly half have the same Intelligence score (which, remember, is not IQ but a composite of IQ, knowledge and general intellect- ergo, children should have a very large penalty).  I prefer the scaling system- scale the child's ability scores down by (their age/base age).  For example, human base age is 15.  A child of 10 would have all his scores scaled down to 10/15, or 2/3, so an Int 12 goes to 8.  It's harsh, but broadly fair.  Before you make the case of child prodigies, I'd just add that DnD models extremes very poorly...Int 18, for example, encompasses 0.5% of the population- a substantial minority really (say, all Oxbridge Firsts or Ivy League summa laudaes*).  The Stephen Hawkings and Albert Einsteins of the world are modelled poorly.Alignment-wise, why change Lawful and Chaotic?  Lawful and Chaotic does not map directly to the law of the land, but rather ideas of structure and obedience.  Lawful respect authority, whether parental or legal; chaotics at best reject it or even outright rebel against it.  There is no reason why Lawful and Chaotic cannot apply in any context.Just a couple of criticisms here.  I think it's an interesting idea- best of luck!* Not familiar with US higher education system- I hope that this is correct.</blockquote>

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