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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MDK" data-source="post: 6078493" data-attributes="member: 6705182">Mensa requires 140? That's new to me.I would stop at Int 3, which is an IQ of around 65, which would mean the character is mentally challenged, but still more than a 30.Int below 3 needn't be considered, as that's animal level. (Or at least chimp level. Chimps are supposedly as smart as 5 year old human children.)Need not be considdered is where things go wrong, you do know that right? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />But even so, someone with IQ65 (int 3 by your reckoning) is rather smarter than a chimp.I didn't mean to say intelligence requires (formal) education, it doesn't. I mentioned university to convey a feeling for the numbers; as common as Int18 wizards may be in adventuring parties, when you look at the population as a whole, such people are RARE, even if we use your conversion mechanism, and that has consequences when you're trying to build a magic-based society. Yup. Like I said, I doubt even 1 in 5 people would be casters, even in a society where such an institute was open to all.</blockquote>On another note, I'm recalling a feat in Forgotten Realms for the people of Halruua, a magical human nation. There's a "background" feat that requires Int 10 and lets you cast a few cantrips. Somewhere it said a third of the population had it. (Since half the population has Int 10 or more, one wonders why more don't have it.)[/QUOTE]Inclination again I'd assume: even if you have the ability, that doesn't mean you have the interest. Or the opportunity for that matter. Even in todays society there are people not taking an education because they've been led to believe learning is for whimps, or because they had reason to get a (easy) job instead.[/QUOTE]

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