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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2623181" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I never said you _had_ to have low STR!  There's a difference between stereotyping and averaging.  If you take a subset of D&Ders who are serving soldiers in combat infantry units, they probably have average physical stats around 13.  If you take a subset of D&Ders who are sedentary Americans, white-collar or unemployed, they probably have average physical stats around 8-9.  There are more of the latter than the former, IMO.  Likewise D&Der college students will average INT around 13-14 (using 3d6 bell curve distribution), D&Der combat infantry non-officers and D&Der unemployed slackers will likely average lower INT than the college student group, though both probably still well above the average INT of their non-roleplayer grunt or slacker peers.</p></blockquote><p></p>