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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5862294" data-attributes="member: 18701">IQ and IQ scores don't always mean a whole lot. I work at Stanford University and am surrounded by "smart" people. I've even gamed with a few.One of the smartest guys I worked with gamed with me early on when 3.5 came out. Sure, he was very book smart, but he lacked a lot of common sense and people skills (both of which I consider to be a quality of whether or not a person is smart).He was new to D&D and could not grasp the concept of roleplaying a character. No matter how I tried to explain it and teach him, his mind could not get past the difference between a video game and a Pen & Paper RPG game. He just did not understand what it meant to roleplay a character and interact in the game world as if it was a real place. It was odd that I couldn't get him to understand when in general, he was a bright guy.I've seen complete morons play D&D and roleplay just fine. Everyone is different and we just excel and struggle with different things. I consider some of my less book smart friends to be a lot smarter than a lot of the people I work with at Stanford. Common sense can often be more important to have than book smarts.</blockquote>