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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1551700" data-attributes="member: 114">This is completely incorrect on a fundamental level.Do you think that 1 in 256 of the D&amp;D population is that non-functional? I don't!You are assuming that INT is a continuum from 1-18 and beyond. There is actually a fundamental disconnect between 2 and 3... 3-18 is the human range, 1-2 is the animal range and never the twain shall meet. It is an artifact of the 3d6 attribute system; the fact that &quot;3&quot; is 1 point higher than &quot;2&quot; is irrelevant because one represents animal level intelligence and the other represents the lower bounds of human intelligence.I think that Sejs has the right of it - someone with low INT, WIS &amp; CHA would be considered retarted and barely functional as a person (and 3 in all three attributes is sufficiently rare - 1 in 16 milliion odd - that it comes across a little more realistically to my mind).Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 1551700, member: 114"] This is completely incorrect on a fundamental level. Do you think that 1 in 256 of the D&D population is that non-functional? I don't! You are assuming that INT is a continuum from 1-18 and beyond. There is actually a fundamental disconnect between 2 and 3... 3-18 is the human range, 1-2 is the animal range and never the twain shall meet. It is an artifact of the 3d6 attribute system; the fact that "3" is 1 point higher than "2" is irrelevant because one represents animal level intelligence and the other represents the lower bounds of human intelligence. I think that Sejs has the right of it - someone with low INT, WIS & CHA would be considered retarted and barely functional as a person (and 3 in all three attributes is sufficiently rare - 1 in 16 milliion odd - that it comes across a little more realistically to my mind). Cheers [/QUOTE]

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