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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 6829978" data-attributes="member: 3887">Oh, it's facts you're a wanting? OK. I'm game!A 5e character with a 5 INT can choose any Background. Including "intellectual" backgrounds like Sage. A 5e character with a 5 INT can go to college for lore and become a Lore Bard. By 3rd level they'll have a total of 8 skills. They can even be good at them! (if their player avoids INT-based skills, of which, as I like pointing out, Medicine is not ) Or they can be barely competent at 2 INT-based skills if you compensate using Expertise.A 5e character with a 5 INT can become a wizard! Put that in your pipe-weed pipe & smoke it. Their spell attacks rolls & save DCs will be bad. That's all. An INT 5 PC can conceivably learn 9th level spells -- there's no INT restriction at all. In fact, it shouldn't be too hard to design a playable INT 5 wizard by selecting mainly utility spells which don't depend on spell attack rolls or saves. So stick to things like divination, summoning, animating household objects & the dead, and... gasp... teleporting (which requires "familiarity", but no INT check). So how do you reconcile this? You're claiming a 5 INT is barely smart enough to have a class in the first place. The rules claim, or rather state, a 5 INT PC can have any class (and theoretically learn the most complex wizard-y spells). Heck, if I have time I might work up a playable 5 INT wizard, "Herp Derp the Eye-Fighter" (he likes to fight Beholders... because he is an idiot!).  To be clear, I'm not saying a 5 INT PC should be played the same way a 15 or 20 INT PC is. But if an INT PC isn't prohibited from learning 9th level wizard spells, then they shouldn't be frowned upon for voicing a smart idea or solving a riddle during a session.</blockquote>

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