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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zander" data-source="post: 2608933" data-attributes="member: 1364">As S'mon has pointed out already, the IQ/10=Int formula doesn't work well. While the 3d6 and IQ distributions can be centred on the same point so that the middle of one is in the same place as the middle of the other, the slopes of the two distributions are not the same. Someone with an IQ of 100 would indeed have an Int of about 10 but someone with an IQ of 150 would have an Int of 18.I don't have my PHB to hand but IIRC Int is supposed to account for education/knowledge/learning as well. So all that I just said above needs to be qualified as IQ tests are designed to negate as much as possible the effects of education. There are even IQ tests for illiterate people. Education (including auto-didactic learning) should grant bonus Int points though not beyond 18 Int.  If S'mon were to give himself an Int of 18, he would neither be overestimating nor boasting. S'mon was an undergraduate at Oxford University, has a PhD in law and is now a professor of that subject. I would say that the odds of finding an adult with S'mon's intellectual ability (innate ability + education) are even longer than 1 in 216.I would present myself as someone with an Int of 18 but I'd rather not; modesty forbids.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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