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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6846517" data-attributes="member: 23751">People seem to like to twist what I say.  It happens a lot.What I am saying is that stupid PC are stupid and should be roleplayed that way.  That doesn't mean that everything they do has to be stupid.  I played D&D for many years with someone whose intelligence was probably 7-8.  His primary flaw, besides occasionally just doing something really freaking stupid, was slowness.  It would take him days to come up with a plan that I could come up with in under a minute.  Same plan, much slower processing speed.  I would have no problem with a PC being played as really slow and only occasionally doing something really stupid.There are tons of ways to play a stupid PC.  My only issue is when people play a stupid PC as if they weren't stupid.  That's bad roleplay, even if the group is okay with it.  If the group is okay with it, then it's not a wrong way to play, but it doesn't become good roleplay.  I'll go on the record (yet again) and say that there is only one wrong way to play D&D.  That's if the players, including the DM, aren't having fun.  If you're having fun, you are doing it right for your group.  Right =/= good roleplay, though.</blockquote>