No more dumb fighters?

[med stud]

Yep, it's a tragedy. No more stupid fighters. It's impossible to fix.

 

[SPECTRE666]

Never fear, there will always be stupid players.

-QFT!!!


SPECTRE666

 

[Ecaiki]

I look at it as having average stats (+0) shows you are a normal, healthy adult of your species. So some kind of penalty would indicate that something is wrong.

There's a reason that intellect of 8 or less prevented you from speaking properly. At least this is what I remember reading, I could be wrong however and you can blame NWN for that.

So you can still play the dumb fighter, or the forgetful wizard, or even the clumsy cleric (NWN again) just without the mechanical penalty. Afterall having a bonus to a stat shows you are above the norm, you're Hercules strong or super-computer smart, and such.

 

[Otterscrubber]

Never fear, there will always be stupid players.

Seriously......exactly what I was thinking. Do you really need an 8 Int to play a dimwit?

 

[med stud]

I look at it as having average stats (+0) shows you are a normal, healthy adult of your species. So some kind of penalty would indicate that something is wrong.

There's a reason that intellect of 8 or less prevented you from speaking properly. At least this is what I remember reading, I could be wrong however and you can blame NWN for that.

So you can still play the dumb fighter, or the forgetful wizard, or even the clumsy cleric (NWN again) just without the mechanical penalty. Afterall having a bonus to a stat shows you are above the norm, you're Hercules strong or super-computer smart, and such.

Just a nitpick: I have met many patients with below average intelligence and all of them speak properly, including the guy with the intelligence of a six- year old. It's mainly stroke victims and people with a "bad construction" of the mouth and throat that speaks weird.

 

[Ecaiki]

I don't think I explained myself properly, and for that I apologize.

What I mean is that an average stat covers the gauntlet of below average but still healthy and functioning, to above average but nothing special.

So for intellect someone between 60 and 140 (I think those are the values, feel free to correct) would have an int score of 10 or 11. Someone below 60 would have a negative modifier, the closer to 0 the higher the penalty, hence the steeper curve. The same applies to above 140, the higher you climb into the realm of genius the quicker you get a bonus from intellect.

I hope that makes what I mean clearer.

 

[Grazzt]

Never fear, there will always be stupid players.

I believe Hong has it right here.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I don't think I explained myself properly, and for that I apologize.

What I mean is that an average stat covers the gauntlet of below average but still healthy and functioning, to above average but nothing special.

So for intellect someone between 60 and 140 (I think those are the values, feel free to correct) would have an int score of 10 or 11. Someone below 60 would have a negative modifier, the closer to 0 the higher the penalty, hence the steeper curve. The same applies to above 140, the higher you climb into the realm of genius the quicker you get a bonus from intellect.

I hope that makes what I mean clearer.

I don't think an 8 is particularly unhealthy, especially since everyone is supposed to have one. Someone with an 8 might be like Joey from friends, stupid but not retarded.

I think someone with IQ of 60 would have an Int much below 8.

 

[hong]

Joey was stupid?


crap

 

[Ecaiki]

I don't think an 8 is particularly unhealthy, especially since everyone is supposed to have one. Someone with an 8 might be like Joey from friends, stupid but not retarded.

I think someone with IQ of 60 would have an Int much below 8.

That's true, I forgot about the one stat is 8 thing.