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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abisashi" data-source="post: 1845143" data-attributes="member: 15334">For strength at least, +5 ability is x2 capability. Let's assume the same holds true for Intelligence. 23 intelligence is the most a human can ever achieve, so Albert Einstein had 23 int. Your character has 26 more points of intelligence, which makes you about 2^5.2 times smarter - which is to say, more than 36 times as intelligent. In one hour he accomplish what would take Einstein 4.5 days (assuming he's working 8 hours a day.) He is 128 times as smart as someone with 14 int.Your character has the brainpower to make any sort of calculation very quickly, and doesn't need to rely on his intuition (aka wisdom). Even with a terrible wisdom score, he won't fit the "absentminded professor" stereotype because he can easily keep track of plenty of things in addition to any experiments he may be conducting.To make this a little more concrete, let's compare the wizard (we'll call him Cereb) to his friend, Jack (who has 14 int - he's very smart). Both of them are attending college. Jack shows up to class (usually), occasionally takes notes, and sometimes reads the textbook. On tests, Jack gets As in the classes where he tries and Bs or Cs in those where he tries very little.Cereb never goes to class and only skims the text. Cereb completely understands the material even if the text was poorly written, and can easily extrapolate beyond it. Cereb aces all the tests (and catches any mistakes the teacher makes). By the time Jack is starting problem 5 on the 50-question multiple-choice final, Celeb is handing it in, and would have been done before Jack finished the first question if he didn't have to spend time reading the questions.Mechanically, Celeb should be able to leave some spell slots un-assigned and just make int checks to have them be what he needs when he needs them. He could have figured out what he needed beforehand, but there's no way you could, both because you lack his godly intelligence and you don't actually live in a fantasy world.edit: For actual roleplay, bring over 100 extra people and whenever you need to make a decision, poll them. You'll get lots of overlap so you'll still only be around 30 int equivalent, but you might have trouble fitting more in the house.</blockquote>

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