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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8468695" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>Since I fail to see any relation between protective parenting and the things covered by the INT stat, I'll reply to several possibilities.</p><p></p><p>Hypothesis A: you meant that sheltered upbringing was detrimental to the INT stat and thus part of the explanation of the 6 INT, not only education level.</p><p></p><p>I'd say that at most it would, at most, explain low WIS, because I don't see how this aspect has any bearing over reasoning, ability to recall facts, logic or education. It illustrate the differing expectations: you'd say think that you're making a character fitting to a stat value since you integrated "sheltered upbringing" to the DM into your background and didn't explain what link you saw there, while he saw none. It illustrate perfectly my point about different expectations.</p><p></p><p>Hypothesis B : since sheltered childhood evokes staying in a bedroom reading books instead of doing dangerous things like climbing up a tree with other children, you meant that the PC was smart and knowledgeable thank to his self-taught education through bookreading instead of getting a "formal" education (but achieved the same through homeschooled education).</p><p></p><p>In this case, I'd concur with Lanefan about the bad faith. It's like having a dump stat and trying to mitigate the discomfort of it by ruleslawyering around the meaning of formal education.</p><p></p><p>Hypothesis C : you meant something else</p><p></p><p>In this case, feel free to use words to convey your meaning. Just bolding a part of your previous answer didn't help me to understand your point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8468695, member: 42856"] Since I fail to see any relation between protective parenting and the things covered by the INT stat, I'll reply to several possibilities. Hypothesis A: you meant that sheltered upbringing was detrimental to the INT stat and thus part of the explanation of the 6 INT, not only education level. I'd say that at most it would, at most, explain low WIS, because I don't see how this aspect has any bearing over reasoning, ability to recall facts, logic or education. It illustrate the differing expectations: you'd say think that you're making a character fitting to a stat value since you integrated "sheltered upbringing" to the DM into your background and didn't explain what link you saw there, while he saw none. It illustrate perfectly my point about different expectations. Hypothesis B : since sheltered childhood evokes staying in a bedroom reading books instead of doing dangerous things like climbing up a tree with other children, you meant that the PC was smart and knowledgeable thank to his self-taught education through bookreading instead of getting a "formal" education (but achieved the same through homeschooled education). In this case, I'd concur with Lanefan about the bad faith. It's like having a dump stat and trying to mitigate the discomfort of it by ruleslawyering around the meaning of formal education. Hypothesis C : you meant something else In this case, feel free to use words to convey your meaning. Just bolding a part of your previous answer didn't help me to understand your point. [/QUOTE]
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