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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6831312" data-attributes="member: 6777052">It's not that. You're misinterpreting my motives.I'm playing devils advocate. I do that sometimes.People are so certain that Low Int automatically equates to "dim" regardless of skills (and I speculate that this is a hold-over from a previous edition) that I'm presenting a counter view, where a character has low Int but is not "dim" because he does have skills. Just because it adds a possible answer to the OP's question that is different from the popular one. There's no point in agreeing with everyone else and saying "Oh, yeah, low Int, role play it dim" because after a few people have already said it, saying it again adds nothing useful to the thread.So I'm advocating role-playing according to the combined results of abilities and skills, just because it's a different viewpoint. And one that I believe is valid.I've been told that it's wrong and I mustn't role play that way. I've been told that it's illogical. People have put up all kinds of arguments to rubbish the idea. That's okay. It's stimulated me to develop the idea even further.Now, your argument that (and I paraphrase) I have shady motives for defending the idea and that therefore the idea must be bad, is doubly fallacious. In the first place, you are guessing my motives and guessing them wrongly, so your premise is false, and in the second place it's a non-sequitur anyway.You're in good company, though. Politicians do it all the time.</blockquote>

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