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<blockquote data-quote="Vince_Snetterton" data-source="post: 8464982" data-attributes="member: 7033114">Well, first off, a a 10 is considered &quot;average&quot; in the game. I am not going to dive deeply into RL mental capacities. I can't imagine how many people will be triggered by the medical term of &quot;Idiot Savant&quot;. But if you actually research that medical condition, you will see it affects roughly 1 in a million people in a highly demonstrable fashion. And it affects men to women in a 6:1 ratio. I am guessing that means in a typical D&amp;D continent maybe a dozen PC's and NPC's would exist at any time with that condition.But I digress. If 10 is considered average, and if players play using the 27 point by or more so, the Std Array, every single char is going to be &quot;below average&quot; in some manner, if they max min their chars. That is hardly &quot;ableist&quot;.And no, I do not play chars with low Int.&nbsp; You have no reason to believe me, but I have separate degrees in Economics and Physics. I could not RP a low Int char to save my life, the same way I can't RP a high CHA char. Like anyone else, I can play either mechanically, which was the first and only intent of the rules. But to ACT (which is the modern definition of Role-Playing) inside a D&amp;D game...nope.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vince_Snetterton, post: 8464982, member: 7033114"] Well, first off, a a 10 is considered "average" in the game. I am not going to dive deeply into RL mental capacities. I can't imagine how many people will be triggered by the [B]medical term[/B] of "Idiot Savant". But if you actually research that medical condition, you will see it affects roughly 1 in a million people in a highly demonstrable fashion. And it affects men to women in a 6:1 ratio. I am guessing that means in a typical D&D continent maybe a dozen PC's and NPC's would exist at any time with that condition. But I digress. If 10 is considered average, and if players play using the 27 point by or more so, the Std Array, every single char is going to be "below average" in some manner, if they max min their chars. That is hardly "ableist". And no, I do not play chars with low Int. You have no reason to believe me, but I have separate degrees in Economics and Physics. I could not RP a low Int char to save my life, the same way I can't RP a high CHA char. Like anyone else, I can play either mechanically, which was the first and only intent of the rules. But to ACT (which is the modern definition of Role-Playing) inside a D&D game...nope. [/QUOTE]

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