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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8468802" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Now I'm trying to remember if any of the editions made folks role play what the stats are in a specific way.The 5e PHB&nbsp; does say players should take them into account when flashing out the appearance and personality&nbsp; (pg. 14).Chapter 7 also seems to act like players will take the scores in to account: &quot;Is a character muscle-bound and insightful? Brilliant and charming? Nimble and hardy?&nbsp; Ability scores define these qualities-a creature's assets as well as weaknesses.&quot;But since there's no penalty for a PC having no personality at all, it would be odd to penalize them for not following the ability descriptions in whatever personality they did have.&nbsp; One could play a 6 Int character as Shelock Holmes, a Sherlock Holmes that was irrevocably cursed by fortune and just had a -6 penalty on all Int related rolls compared to the 18 Int.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8468802, member: 6701124"] Now I'm trying to remember if any of the editions made folks role play what the stats are in a specific way. The 5e PHB does say players should take them into account when flashing out the appearance and personality (pg. 14). Chapter 7 also seems to act like players will take the scores in to account: "Is a character muscle-bound and insightful? Brilliant and charming? Nimble and hardy? Ability scores define these qualities-a creature's assets as well as weaknesses." But since there's no penalty for a PC having no personality at all, it would be odd to penalize them for not following the ability descriptions in whatever personality they did have. One could play a 6 Int character as Shelock Holmes, a Sherlock Holmes that was irrevocably cursed by fortune and just had a -6 penalty on all Int related rolls compared to the 18 Int. [/QUOTE]

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