Satyrn
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Looks like this thread died.....
And since I was the last to post before death.....
I WIN!!! hahaha
Congratulations indeed. Your trophy is a stuffed Tarrasque head to hang on your wall.
Looks like this thread died.....
And since I was the last to post before death.....
I WIN!!! hahaha
Congratulations indeed. Your trophy is a stuffed Tarrasque head to hang on your wall.
That's okay. I'm sure you could play the corpse as if it were a genius.
Naw corpses aren't geniuses otherwise they wouldn't be corpses.
Your quote from the Feeblemind spell description looks like a set of restrictions on action declaration - which the GM can and should enforce - not a set of instructions on how to roleplay the character.This is from the Feeblemind spell...
'On a failed save, the creature’s Intelligence and Charisma scores become 1. The creature can’t cast spells, activate magic items, understand language, or communicate in any intelligible way. The creature can, however, identify its friends, follow them, and even protect them.'
So to me what your ability score is matters for RP stuff. Ability modifiers are how the Ability score is used in the mechanics of the game.
Another point of objection might be that, at least in 1st ed AD&D, many NPCs are meant to have scores determined using "averaging" dice (treat 1s as 3s and 6s as 4s); but I think I'm the only posters to have pointed that out.
Intelligence | IQ if using 3d6 | IQ if using 3 avg d6 |
1 | 52 | 14 |
2 | 57 | 23 |
3 | 62 | 32 |
4 | 67 | 41 |
5 | 72 | 50 |
6 | 77 | 59 |
7 | 82 | 68 |
8 | 87 | 77 |
9 | 92 | 86 |
10 | 97 | 95 |
11 | 103 | 105 |
12 | 108 | 114 |
13 | 113 | 123 |
14 | 118 | 132 |
15 | 123 | 141 |
16 | 128 | 150 |
17 | 133 | 159 |
18 | 138 | 168 |
19 | 143 | 177 |
20 | 148 | 186 |
21 | 153 | 195 |
22 | 158 | 204 |
23 | 163 | 213 |
24 | 168 | 222 |
25 | 173 | 231 |
26 | 179 | 240 |
27 | 184 | 249 |
28 | 189 | 258 |
29 | 194 | 267 |
30 | 199 | 276 |
Okay, I've no idea where you're veering now. While it's true that 3d6 isn't a normal distribution (it's a near normal distribution, which is a class of things that are often represented by normals because it's very useful and understandable to do so), you did represent earlier that you were matching the "normal' distribution of IQ to that of 3d6, and your justification was that they both had the same kind of distribution. I didn't mistake that.
. . . I thought this thing was dead by [MENTION=6789021]Yardiff[/MENTION]'s hand. . .