Int score

[Christian]

Actually, a "C" is average so a "B" is above average

You haven't been in high school lately, have you?

[grumble]Heaven forbid we hurt anyone's self-esteem by labeling them as 'average'.[/grumble]

 

[Uller]

Hey now, I've got a 9 intellephant and I never use Gargantuicious words uncorrectably!

Me get F in English? That unpossible!

 

[Moe Ronalds]

example of a 9 intelligence:

M0R013: I don't see why you need to be so cruel to us just because we may not be as well off as you...
Curt339: You Geeks need to stop drelling on money

"curt" who accused me of drelling on money (despite my argument THAT IT IS NOT A ING WORD (and when I said so he insisted "drelling" was a word and that I should check a dictionary(which I did do, just to be sure. In case Webster is wrong, the word doesn't exist.))) later described himself as Classy, Witty and Smart, which shows he must also have a low sanity score...

Uh, sorry, what was this thread about???

 

[trentonjoe]

THe old rules (1E I think) used to say multiply your INT score by 10 to get your characters IQ.

A 90 IQ is pretty average.

I wouldn't worry about someone's lack of intelligence showing through their speech patterns until you get down into the 70-80 range.

I would say a 7-8 Intellegence becomes apparent though normal conversation.

 

[Kalanyr]

Int * 10 != IQ

If it did a 13+ Int would fall into the top 2% of the population, now just looking at how 3d6 fall this seems a tad flawed. (Assuming a standard Mensa IQ test where 130 = top 2%. So, no, I'm not saying your super Intelligent because of an IQ test of X, cut offs based on IQ tests vary amazingly.)

 

[spunky_mutters]

A little OT, but this reminds me of a dwarf I used to play with an INT 3. He only spoke Dwarvish, and nobody else did, so communication was limited, at best. I played him sort of like a dog. Well, a dog that drank a lot and broke furniture over people's heads. Because I couldn't really communicate with the other party members, I didn't have to worry about how intelligent my speech sounded.

That guy was my powergaming revenge. I mostly DM, and I had a player who tended to wander off to watch naughty movies whenever play lagged for more than 30 seconds. He decided to try his hand at DM. I know it's petty, but I min/maxed this guy brutally, and took out most of his villains in short order. That campaign ended fairly quickly when the frustrated ref tossed a dragon at us (we were 2nd then). He was a little more appreciative of my efforts as ref, though.

 

[S'mon]

Int * 10 != IQ

If it did a 13+ Int would fall into the top 2% of the population, now just looking at how 3d6 fall this seems a tad flawed. (Assuming a standard Mensa IQ test where 130 = top 2%. So, no, I'm not saying your super Intelligent because of an IQ test of X, cut offs based on IQ tests vary amazingly.)

There's a slight difference - IQ 150 is top 1%, equivalent to Int 17 on 3d6 - ie the curver is broader, and IQ 100 would be Int 10.5, but it's pretty close, Int 9 is very close to IQ 90 according to EGG's approach.

 

[Frosty]

This debate came about in a strange way. We were discussing one of the player characters and found that he had a 9 INT and I had been playing NeverWinter Nights and that is were I saw the speech issue with a 9 INT...I had stated that I thought it was in the Players Handbook. I have since informed the group that I was wrong. Just looking for feedback here.

I found a MWN-module that had "moron-speach" already for characters with less Int than 12. It made it completely unplayable, ironically it was a Sunless Citadel-conversion.

I guess this happens in NWN a lot just because the module maker _can_. It will become less common I wager since writing dialogues in NWN is a lot of work as it is without having to rewrite everything to suit the occasional dumb barbarian.

 

[Tonguez]

Apparently my IQ is 175 or something like that and infact people have trouble understanding me!

Its a combination of a slight lisp and a habit of utilising large words and complex sentence structures (and a love of verbose and rendundant circumlocation in order to get to the point...)

Anyway if they are going to enforce moron-speak for low Int (and 9 is not low) then they should also enforce Geek-speak for high ints.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Geekspeek might also be caused by a low charisma or wisdom score (not sure what of both fits better) or your diplomacy ranks...