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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 6865427" data-attributes="member: 6801845">So in order for it to be a &quot;legitimate&quot; game you have to have some people that are mentally or physically handicapped?&nbsp; While others in the group are above average in every stat?Most people (whether or not they are adventurers) are going to have ability scores between 8 and 12 because the normal scale is 3-18 with 3d6 determining scores.&nbsp; If you want to mimic reality you would probably want more of a bell curve and do something like roll 5d6 and drop the lowest and the highest.&nbsp; I'd have to do some simulations to see how that matches up though.Forest Gump was smart to run from battle, adventurers with extremely low intelligence probably wouldn't survive for long.&nbsp; Adventurers are supposed to be heroes, not zeroes.&lt;rant&gt;The other pet peeve I have (which is related) is that in the group of all 8 intelligence, the group will still make decisions just as intelligently as if they were all 20s.&nbsp; Most people just ignore low intelligence in play unless it's a skill check.&lt;/rant&gt;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 6865427, member: 6801845"] So in order for it to be a "legitimate" game you have to have some people that are mentally or physically handicapped? While others in the group are above average in every stat? Most people (whether or not they are adventurers) are going to have ability scores between 8 and 12 because the normal scale is 3-18 with 3d6 determining scores. If you want to mimic reality you would probably want more of a bell curve and do something like roll 5d6 and drop the lowest [I]and [/I]the highest. I'd have to do some simulations to see how that matches up though. Forest Gump was smart to run from battle, adventurers with extremely low intelligence probably wouldn't survive for long. Adventurers are supposed to be heroes, not zeroes. <rant> The other pet peeve I have (which is related) is that in the group of all 8 intelligence, the group will still make decisions just as intelligently as if they were all 20s. Most people just ignore low intelligence in play unless it's a skill check. </rant> [/QUOTE]

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