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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6863922" data-attributes="member: 6799649">The 3d6 bell curve is assumed to model the general population; any other method of generating ability scores (like 4d6k3, point-buy, etc.) are ways to generate characters that are generally above the norm. If the lowest stat you can get from point-buy is 8, this doesn't mean that the lowest human intelligence score is 8! This means that the lowest score from that method of generating heroes is 8. The lowest score in the general population remains 3.The bell curve generated by 3d6 may be the same shape(ish) to the bell curve of actual human IQ scores, but the frequency of scores within those curves are different. For the 3d6 curve, if you have a statistically average group of 216 people in a room, one will have an Int of 3, three will have an Int of 4, six will have an Int of 5.....six will have an Int of 16, three will have an Int of 17, and one will have an Int of 18.Yet if you have 216 real humans in a room, the IQ bell curve does not predict that one of those people has an IQ of 30, three have an IQ of 40, six will have an IQ of 50..... There are far fewer outliers on the IQ curve than on the 3d6 curve.Since the D&D average population (the population against which our heroes are measured) is based on the 3d6 bell curve, then all you need to say about having an Int of 5 is that, in that room of 216 people, only four are less intelligent than you. Or, that in a room of 54 people, only one is less intelligent than you.I'm sure that each of you know at least 54 people, even in this Internet age. How many of them cannot dress themselves? If you think that a person with Int 4 or less cannot speak, do you think that one in every 54 people that you know is not intelligent enough to even speak a language? If you think that a person with Int 5 cannot function, how about your school? If there were 1000 pupils at your school, roughly 50 will have Int 5 or less on the 3d6 curve, and 20 were too stupid to be able to speak any language at all! But are hundreds of them less intelligent than Mungo?And you think Mungo has Int 8?</blockquote>

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