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<blockquote data-quote="MostlyDm" data-source="post: 6867565" data-attributes="member: 6788973">If you re-read my statement you will note that I didn't say his exercise met the RAW (or RAI!) description of intelligence. All I said is that his exercise accounted for the basic game mechanics of a low int.&nbsp; You're not quoting game mechanics, here, you're quoting the (arguably more important) general rules of what Intelligence refers to. I'm not at all surprised that you don't find it acceptable to only cover the bare game mechanics of low intelligence. I'm sort of on the the fence about it, personally. I don't think I'd ever do it myself, but if I had a player that wanted to try it I'd give it a shot because I tend to let my players try pretty much anything. Given bounded accuracy and the fact that a 5 Int character can succeed at moderately difficult Intelligence checks on occasion, it perhaps makes more sense than in any previous edition. As an aside, I hate that by default we only get one level of quoting in this forum. Totally fragments the discussion. And manually adding in nested quotes is a pain on mobile.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MostlyDm, post: 6867565, member: 6788973"] If you re-read my statement you will note that I didn't say his exercise met the RAW (or RAI!) description of intelligence. All I said is that his exercise accounted for the [i]basic game mechanics[/i] of a low int. You're not quoting game mechanics, here, you're quoting the (arguably more important) general rules of what Intelligence refers to. I'm not at all surprised that you don't find it acceptable to only cover the bare game mechanics of low intelligence. I'm sort of on the the fence about it, personally. I don't think I'd ever do it myself, but if I had a player that wanted to try it I'd give it a shot because I tend to let my players try pretty much anything. Given bounded accuracy and the fact that a 5 Int character can succeed at moderately difficult Intelligence checks on occasion, it perhaps makes more sense than in any previous edition. As an aside, I hate that by default we only get one level of quoting in this forum. Totally fragments the discussion. And manually adding in nested quotes is a pain on mobile. [/QUOTE]

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