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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7272825" data-attributes="member: 6799649">See, that's where you're going wrong!Rolling does not result in 'about 20% of your population being either physically or mentally challenged'!What rolling a, say, Int 3 does is say that this person is statistically the least intelligent person in the statistically average roomful of 216 people.Just like rolling a Str 18 does not mean that 1-in-216 people is the strongest person in the world; just that Str 18 is statistically the strongest in that hypothetical room of 216 people.The very fact that much fewer than 1-in-216 are the 'best' or 'worst' person (in a given statistic) out of a population of 7 billion (or whatever) shows that the 'statistically average room of 216 people' simply does not include either the 'best' or 'worst' stat in the world population!This is why we don't need to worry about the 3d6 bell curve not mapping exactly onto real world population bell curves. You're putting the cart before the horse. In D&D, the bell curve tells us what the population looks like, while in real life the population tells us what the bell curve looks like.</blockquote>