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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1552223" data-attributes="member: 3649">No, I think that most people that abysmally stupid are killed by circumstance long before they reach the age that they can speak - same thing for those up to about a 5 int or so; primitive societies like most D&amp;D ones (away from the larger or more enlightened cities) have no room for someone that stupid. They might, with some patient and very understanding parents, make it to walking/talking age at which point they'll wander off into the woods, having no real means of ever understanding the danger implicit in the woods, or the river, or whatever, and get eaten by wolves or something.&nbsp;After thinking about it overnight, in fact, I think I pull back from some of my original ideas of just how competant they are. A 3-4 int might be OK for your basic Jungle Lord, who's been raised by higher order animals like apes. But for most people it's a crippling disadvantage simply because they don't have an animals instincts and those hard-wired behaviors that, say, a dog is born with. Basically, they are getting all the disadvantages of being a beast with none of the advantages, and they'll never ever get any better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 1552223, member: 3649"] No, I think that most people that abysmally stupid are killed by circumstance long before they reach the age that they can speak - same thing for those up to about a 5 int or so; primitive societies like most D&D ones (away from the larger or more enlightened cities) have no room for someone that stupid. They might, with some patient and very understanding parents, make it to walking/talking age at which point they'll wander off into the woods, having no real means of ever understanding the danger implicit in the woods, or the river, or whatever, and get eaten by wolves or something. After thinking about it overnight, in fact, I think I pull back from some of my original ideas of just how competant they are. A 3-4 int might be OK for your basic Jungle Lord, who's been raised by higher order animals like apes. But for most people it's a crippling disadvantage simply because they don't have an animals instincts and those hard-wired behaviors that, say, a dog is born with. Basically, they are getting all the disadvantages of being a beast with none of the advantages, and they'll never ever get any better. [/QUOTE]

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