D&D 5E Int 8, Wis 8, Cha 18 Sorcerer

[Dannyalcatraz]

I was thinking Forrest Gump. Nice and likable. Able to follow directions well. Not many people go to him for advice though. He may latch onto another party member for advice on when to attack or where to go.

"Is this a good time for a fireball."

"Cast, Forrest, CAST!"

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Name him Tadd and join a sorcerers frat.

Like that frat idea- "I'm a member of a sorcerous fraternity, and I'm so awesome they're renaming it to Pi Iota Exxxxxcellent!"

But I'd probably name mine "Steve Bolt", as inspired by:
[video=youtube;rREGbLdOzfg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rREGbLdOzfg&sns=em[/video]

 

[Yunru]

An intelligence of 8 is merely not knowing that mathematics is always plural and thus should be shortened to maths.
A wisdom of 8 is merely not noticing when people shorten mathematics wrong.
A charisma 18 is knowing to not call people uneducated plebeians for getting wrong.

 

[MoonSong]

This is assuming INT = IQ x10, right? Because if we assume the 3d6 bell curve then INT 8 is only slightly below average, more like IQ 90 or so (I'm a lecturer and I'm pretty sure I've had students around IQ 95...)

Well, I think I'm a smart bunny or something so I wanted to see how much Int would be in IQ. IQ is a gaussian index that starts with 100 on the average of the population and adds/lowers 15 at each standard deviation. Since D&D people live on a 3d6 scale, that average is 10.5, and the SDs below 100 are at 8, between 5-6 and in the middle of 4, the SDs higher than 100 are at 13, between 15-16 and in the middle of 17. So in an approximate (because obviously I don't remember how to use a gaussian table)we have

Score IQ Rounded Level
3 40 40 Limit of what can be measured
4 51 50 Moderately Impaired
5 61 60 Mildly impaired
6 70 70 Inferior
7 78 80 Low Average
8 85 85 Low Average
9 91 90 Average
10 96 95 Average
11 104 105 Average
12 109 110 Average
13 115 115 High Average
14 122 120 High Average
15 130 130 Superior
16 139 140 Gifted
17 149 150 Very gifted
18 160 160 Limit of what can be measured

What do you think now [MENTION=6787650]Hemlock[/MENTION]? (Ok back to the kitchen it is)

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

I think that your table would be more useful if you labelled the IQ points with concrete labels. E.g. Int 13/IQ 115/average college graduate. Int 15/IQ 130/average PhD. That will allow people to measure it against their own experience in a concrete way. If you don't do that, then you risk having people assume that "average" means "typical for me and the people I know well," which is likely to be something very much different than IQ 100.

 

[Geeknamese]

Int 8 and Wis 8 is that adorable but absent-minded kid who grew up on the streets in the Waterdhavian slums. That kid wasn't the brightest and always had his head in the clouds but dammit, I tell ya, if he flashed his winning smile your way, you couldn't help but feed the bugger.


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[Sacrosanct]

He knows about Dragons and there breath weapons but sometimes gets them mixed up and has issues remembering them according to type.




What do you guys think? How would you work it?

It would be someone that you like, but keeps messing up their, there, and they're

 

[MoonSong]

I think that your table would be more useful if you labelled the IQ points with concrete labels. E.g. Int 13/IQ 115/average college graduate. Int 15/IQ 130/average PhD. That will allow people to measure it against their own experience in a concrete way. If you don't do that, then you risk having people assume that "average" means "typical for me and the people I know well," which is likely to be something very much different than IQ 100.

Could you help me with that? I suck at coding tables and your experiences are more standard than mine.

 

[Gwarok]

He's be like "Joey" from Friends. So yea, like you said.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

"You mean I drew the ticket to take on the Lich Lord? Awesome!!!!"