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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8469844" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>This depends on the meaning you assign to the distribution of stats, something that is very difficult to make sense of. 3-18 is one set of results from creating a character. We've been told that the character creating process isn't representative of &quot;regular people&quot; but only of heroes. All humans commoners, thugs, acolytes... have INT 10. That's a wide array of individual differences lumped into a single point range. It works also for any ability. So every is STR 10, from a man working in a rice field all day and a woman serving tea at the samurai's house alike: the difference between them isn't wide enough to warrant a single point of difference. Then you've the PCs, with tremendous capability to differ from the norm. Even being INT 14 may be supergenious level, for what we know: the difference with humans is as wide as the difference between average humans and an ape. Yet for some reason, a STR 14 human isn't able to break a temples' pillar and kill thousands of Phillistines inside ; I blame a bia against martial classes. The X% better than stat 10 only applies when a roll is needed, which is determined narratively and not with a simulationist intent : if a INT 10 character tried to solve a jigsaw puzzle quicker than an ape, I wouldn't ask for a roll [tbh I have no idea of a real ape jigsaw puzzle solving ability, one can replace that species with a dog if needed].</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8469844, member: 42856"] This depends on the meaning you assign to the distribution of stats, something that is very difficult to make sense of. 3-18 is one set of results from creating a character. We've been told that the character creating process isn't representative of "regular people" but only of heroes. All humans commoners, thugs, acolytes... have INT 10. That's a wide array of individual differences lumped into a single point range. It works also for any ability. So every is STR 10, from a man working in a rice field all day and a woman serving tea at the samurai's house alike: the difference between them isn't wide enough to warrant a single point of difference. Then you've the PCs, with tremendous capability to differ from the norm. Even being INT 14 may be supergenious level, for what we know: the difference with humans is as wide as the difference between average humans and an ape. Yet for some reason, a STR 14 human isn't able to break a temples' pillar and kill thousands of Phillistines inside ; I blame a bia against martial classes. The X% better than stat 10 only applies when a roll is needed, which is determined narratively and not with a simulationist intent : if a INT 10 character tried to solve a jigsaw puzzle quicker than an ape, I wouldn't ask for a roll [tbh I have no idea of a real ape jigsaw puzzle solving ability, one can replace that species with a dog if needed]. [/QUOTE]

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