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<blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 5911683" data-attributes="member: 6668292">Wasn't me who started it (I didn't even know about it). And, well, 3-18 isn't meaningless in a vacuum. It just means that 10.5 is the average for any race before racial modifiers, and humans would be no different. It'd just be shifting the focus to move the assumption away from &quot;10.5 is the human average&quot; to &quot;10.5 is the human average, except for Intelligence&quot; just like elves have &quot;10.5 is the elven average, except for Dexterity and Constitution&quot;. It's just divorcing humans from being &quot;average&quot; all around.Again, I'd rather just give them the bonus to Intelligence (since they're usually portrayed as the most adaptable race), and express that 10.5 is the mechanical average, not necessarily the human average (though it would be for most abilities, just like it is for most races). Just my take on it, though, not something I expect to happen. As always, play what you like <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="JamesonCourage, post: 5911683, member: 6668292"] Wasn't me who started it (I didn't even know about it). And, well, 3-18 isn't meaningless in a vacuum. It just means that 10.5 is the average for any race before racial modifiers, and humans would be no different. It'd just be shifting the focus to move the assumption away from "10.5 is the human average" to "10.5 is the human average, except for Intelligence" just like elves have "10.5 is the elven average, except for Dexterity and Constitution". It's just divorcing humans from being "average" all around. Again, I'd rather just give them the bonus to Intelligence (since they're usually portrayed as the most adaptable race), and express that 10.5 is the [I]mechanical average[/I], not necessarily the human average (though it would be for most abilities, just like it is for most races). Just my take on it, though, not something I expect to happen. As always, play what you like :) [/QUOTE]

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