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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6259093" data-attributes="member: 3192">PC Mental Stats from AD&D did not include all of the derived stats NPCs did. The players were expected to do those things. That was the game. They didn't swing the swords or cast "real" spells. The players were expected to form their own memories and decipherings of the game world from their own character's perspective. Neither did they have stuff like Morale or Loyalty. Players had to determine for themselves when to cut and run, when to trust someone, and when not to. The Supra-Genius stuff plays the same way. You play the role not the character. You do not need to seek to fail at the game if your PC mental stat rolls were all poor. A PC with Supra-Genius Int had better arcane abilities than other PCs, they learned more spells, and were better at grasping new ones. What was done with those spells and what was discovered about how they functioned by casting them in uncontrolled game situations was the player playing the magic-user game. They learned about the arcane secrets of the world from how the magic in items and their own spell effects interacted with it. But the PC was only as good as the player, just like fighter PCs where the player has to make combat decisions, but not actually carry them out.</blockquote>