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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3236833" data-attributes="member: 4937">Depends on what you mean.  As a rough guideline.Int 8-9: It won't be immediately noticable that this person has below average intelligence.  Only when you have oppurtunity to observe thier knowledge and reasoning tested over a period can you deduce it.  They are still adequately compotent when dealing with thier 'home turf' and may even possess a narrow expertise born from experience.Int 6-7: It will be apparant in casual conversation that this person is lacking in critical reasoning skills and has very large gaps in thier knowledge.Int 4-5: This person will be obviously mentally retarded and it will probably be possible to tell this from thier manners.  They will have great difficulty being even compotent in any area of knowledge.Int 3 or less: Will have great difficulty even taking care of themselves.  Technology of any sort will utterly confuse them.  Abstract thought is generally beyond them.None of this percludes high wisdom.A person with high wisdom but low intelligence will possess a natural grace and instinct to thier actions.  In a good aligned person (to another good aligned person of sufficient wisdom), this will likely cause them to seem innocent and endearing.  In an evil aligned person (to a good aligned person of sufficient wisdom), this likely to cause them to seem uncanny and unnatural.   (If the low intelligence but high wisdom person also has high charisma, they are able to produce either effect in anyone with equal ease.)  HWLI are very likely to be able to empathize with animals and children - both of whom tend to have wisdom scores higher than thier intelligence (remember intelligence is also a measure of what you know, and children no relatively little).  People with high wisdom but low intelligence are generally able to do things, but generally unable to express how they did them, to teach anyone else, or even to understand anyone else's instruction.  They simply do.   People with high wisdom but low intelligence will tend to be more comfortable in simple, low technology environments, in which they have a regular reutine.  Knowing thier own limitations, they will go out of thier way to find such safe havens.   Knowing thier own limitations, they will go out of thier way to pair themselves with a learned and intelligent person.  A person with high wisdom but low intelligence will be the epitome of doing much with little.  They will prize economy in word and deed.  They tend to be thrifty, humble, hard working, and extremely persistant.  They overcome problems with very simple plans and brute effort.  They have a tendancy to see simple solutions to complex problems.  They don't spend much time thinking things through, but they tend to stumble on the right solution immediately.   When a problem is well above thier ability, they realize it immediately and either simply avoid the problem or transform it into a different more understandible problem.   Often this means attempting to turn the problem into someone else's problem - one they recognize to be better suited to the task.  If the HWLI person also has high charisma, they tend to be very good at doing this.HWLI person's will ask questions all the time.  They will generally be unable to understand or remember the answer, and they will only make an effort to remember the answer if the information is something very basic to what they do all the time.   Rather than being primarily an attempt to gather information, asking questions is for the HWLI person a means of recruiting other people into thier problems.   Interestingly, while the HWLI person may not know the answer themselves, they have a very strong instinct for what the right question is in a given circumstance.  They are very good at detecting the outlying information admist the noise, often more so than very high intelligence people who are distracted by the numerous possibilities, avenues, and thoughts and are therefore working on the wrong problem.  In this way, HWLI people can form very strong and mutually beneficial relationships with a high intelligence character.   When they do ask the right question, a HWLI person tends to not realize why it is the right question, or even necessarily that it is particularly important.HWLI people will have extremely firm belief systems, usually something that can be expressed as simply as a single line.  Because of this, they are almost impossible to trick, coerse, distract, or seduce.  They might not understand anything going on or why anything is happening, but they know who they are. The classic example from literature is 'Forrest Gump' (INT: 7, WIS: 14 or so).</blockquote>

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