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Don't play "stupid" characters. It is ableist.
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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8468938" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Of course. What I'm getting at is that there's three possibilities: you're good at something, you're average at something, or you're bad at something. I want the stats to point out the good and the bad, with anything not pointed out defaulting to average.</p><p></p><p>If all one cares about is sheer mechanics, then yes.</p><p></p><p>But if one is also looking to the numbers to inform more about what the character is and does and-or how it acts, then no.</p><p></p><p>The bolded applies to our games as well, and always has.</p><p></p><p>Were I the DM here I wouldn't say you have to play it as an imbecile. </p><p></p><p>That said, I'd still take this "<em>my character is smart but has had a very sheltered upbringing and no formal education</em>" with a great big grain of salt in case you're just trying to carve yourself a loophole for later exploitation: the character hasn't had formal education but if ever exposed to such it'll be smart enough to take full advantage of it, quickly rendering that '6' meaningless.</p><p></p><p>Sorry, no go. One of the things an Int score defines is the general ability to learn (which is largely done via memorization, something specifically called out in 5e's definition of intelligence); so here it wouldn't matter whether your PC had previously been exposed to formal education or not, it still ain;t much of a learner.</p><p></p><p>The sheltered upbringing piece would IMO play more into Wisdom than Intelligence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8468938, member: 29398"] Of course. What I'm getting at is that there's three possibilities: you're good at something, you're average at something, or you're bad at something. I want the stats to point out the good and the bad, with anything not pointed out defaulting to average. If all one cares about is sheer mechanics, then yes. But if one is also looking to the numbers to inform more about what the character is and does and-or how it acts, then no. The bolded applies to our games as well, and always has. Were I the DM here I wouldn't say you have to play it as an imbecile. That said, I'd still take this "[I]my character is smart but has had a very sheltered upbringing and no formal education[/I]" with a great big grain of salt in case you're just trying to carve yourself a loophole for later exploitation: the character hasn't had formal education but if ever exposed to such it'll be smart enough to take full advantage of it, quickly rendering that '6' meaningless. Sorry, no go. One of the things an Int score defines is the general ability to learn (which is largely done via memorization, something specifically called out in 5e's definition of intelligence); so here it wouldn't matter whether your PC had previously been exposed to formal education or not, it still ain;t much of a learner. The sheltered upbringing piece would IMO play more into Wisdom than Intelligence. [/QUOTE]
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