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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6841044" data-attributes="member: 6787503">As to the notion that Intelligence equals IQ/10, it seems to come originally from a humorous article written by Brian Blume in Dragon #8, &quot;So, You Want Realism in D&amp;D?&quot;, published in July, 1977. The article humorously suggests alternative methods for generating PC ability scores based on the actual abilities of the players. To calculate Wisdom, for example, Blume suggests taking the number of hours per week spent &quot;playing D&amp;D or working on your D&amp;D Campaign&quot; and subtracting it from 20. For Intelligence, he suggests taking the result of your most recent IQ test and dividing by 10. Following such a method may in fact prevent the metagame and realism issues that some have pointed out in this thread, by preventing players from playing characters that have different cognitive abilities than they themselves do. Personally, I think mapping the 3d6 bell curve to the IQ bell curve to be much more accurate, especially when you consider that, in the Monster Manual, Gygax gives an Intelligence of 17 or 18 as corresponding to a genius IQ, which is generally held to begin at a score of 140 to 145.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 6841044, member: 6787503"] As to the notion that Intelligence equals IQ/10, it seems to come originally from a humorous article written by Brian Blume in Dragon #8, "So, You Want Realism in D&D?", published in July, 1977. The article humorously suggests alternative methods for generating PC ability scores based on the actual abilities of the players. To calculate Wisdom, for example, Blume suggests taking the number of hours per week spent "playing D&D or working on your D&D Campaign" and subtracting it from 20. For Intelligence, he suggests taking the result of your most recent IQ test and dividing by 10. Following such a method may in fact prevent the metagame and realism issues that some have pointed out in this thread, by preventing players from playing characters that have different cognitive abilities than they themselves do. Personally, I think mapping the 3d6 bell curve to the IQ bell curve to be much more accurate, especially when you consider that, in the Monster Manual, Gygax gives an Intelligence of 17 or 18 as corresponding to a genius IQ, which is generally held to begin at a score of 140 to 145. [/QUOTE]

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