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<blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 611309" data-attributes="member: 6469">Heh, I don't know about in America, but IIRC, the average IQ in Australia was around 100-110. We had one of those IQ tv shows a few months back yah see <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'd say that the x10 thing is pretty accurate. Your average peasant has an Int of 10-11 as per the standard ability spread so this fits nicely. I don't see your problem with it.If you're using point-buy, it utilizes a bell curve too so that it's much less likely that you'll get a person with a very high or very low IQ.150 (or 15) is considered the top of the range for the 'average' person, IIRC and is enough to get you into MENSA.People with IQ's of 180 (or 18) are quite rare and are therefore highly gifted individuals and are almost certain candidates for MENSA (if they apply themselves).Only the true genius would ever apply all their brainpower and so anyone with over 180 IQ is most likely someone who is exceptionally dedicated to academic pursuits, much like a wizard would be, and therefore it would be these people who would put extra ability points into their IQ, thus potentially raising their IQ to 200 (or 20, 8th-level) but even then, few ever go beyond this and reach legendary intelligence status.Btw, I remember hearing conflicting reports about Albert Einstien. Once I remember hearing he had a 90 IQ because he was so flippant and another time I remember hearing he had a 340 IQ because... well because he was a genius.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DDK, post: 611309, member: 6469"] Heh, I don't know about in America, but IIRC, the average IQ in Australia was around 100-110. We had one of those IQ tv shows a few months back yah see :) I'd say that the x10 thing is pretty accurate. Your average peasant has an Int of 10-11 as per the standard ability spread so this fits nicely. I don't see your problem with it. If you're using point-buy, it utilizes a bell curve too so that it's much less likely that you'll get a person with a very high or very low IQ. 150 (or 15) is considered the top of the range for the 'average' person, IIRC and is enough to get you into MENSA. People with IQ's of 180 (or 18) are quite rare and are therefore highly gifted individuals and are almost certain candidates for MENSA (if they apply themselves). Only the true genius would ever apply all their brainpower and so anyone with over 180 IQ is most likely someone who is exceptionally dedicated to academic pursuits, much like a wizard would be, and therefore it would be these people who would put extra ability points into their IQ, thus potentially raising their IQ to 200 (or 20, 8th-level) but even then, few ever go beyond this and reach legendary intelligence status. Btw, I remember hearing conflicting reports about Albert Einstien. Once I remember hearing he had a 90 IQ because he was so flippant and another time I remember hearing he had a 340 IQ because... well because he was a genius. [/QUOTE]

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