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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8468287" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Right. But the character is probably being played by someone with relatively average IQ who is deliberately acting dumb and isn't differentiating between low Int and low Wis.Example: Dumb PC: Huh, I wonder what this lever does. &lt;reaches out to touch the lever&gt;Other PCs: Don't touch it! If you pull the lever, the sign says it'll summon demons.Dumb PC #1: Whoops, better not touch it. &lt;this player is playing a not-smart, illiterate character, but isn't being a jerk about it.&gt;Dumb PC #2: Dur-hurh, I'm so dumb, I'll pull it anyway. &lt;this character is being a jerk about it, by doing the dumb thing deliberately&gt;Now, in this case, Dumb PC #2 isn't necessarily making fun of real people who aren't &quot;smart,&quot; but they are being disruptive. Even my chaotic neutral, 10 Int character doesn't deliberately do things just to be disruptive. (I swear, she didn't mean to start a riot; it just happened!)Now, if they had a good, in-character reason to pull the lever (someone they trusted told them to or said that it summoned candy, etc.) that'd be one thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8468287, member: 6915329"] Right. But the character is probably being [I]played [/I]by someone with relatively average IQ who is deliberately acting dumb and isn't differentiating between low Int and low Wis. Example: Dumb PC: Huh, I wonder what this lever does. <reaches out to touch the lever> Other PCs: Don't touch it! If you pull the lever, the sign says it'll summon demons. Dumb PC #1: Whoops, better not touch it. <this player is playing a not-smart, illiterate character, but isn't being a jerk about it.> Dumb PC #2: Dur-hurh, I'm so dumb, I'll pull it anyway. <this character [I]is [/I]being a jerk about it, by doing the dumb thing deliberately> Now, in this case, Dumb PC #2 isn't necessarily making fun of real people who aren't "smart," but they are being disruptive. Even my chaotic neutral, 10 Int character doesn't [I]deliberately [/I]do things just to be disruptive. (I swear, she didn't [I]mean [/I]to start a riot; it just happened!) Now, if they had a good, in-character reason to pull the lever (someone they trusted told them to or said that it summoned candy, etc.) that'd be one thing. [/QUOTE]

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