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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6846680" data-attributes="member: 42582">On the question of how many ways to play 5 INT.Upthread I, and I believe [MENTION=97077]iserith[/MENTION], asserted that there were infinitely many such ways. By "infinite" in this context I intended to convey indefinitely many - that is, however many ways one enumerates to play 5 INT, there are other ways that have not yet been enumerated. I think iserith meant the same thing.  [MENTION=23751]Maxperson[/MENTION] denied this. So now, when [MENTION=23751]Maxperson[/MENTION] says there are many ways to play 5 INT, I wonder if he could tell us what the value of "many" is. And if that value is in the thousands, or even in the hundreds, then I think that for practical purposes it may as well be infinite - no gamer or gaming table is likely to hit the crunch point of limitation in the ways of playing 5 INT, if there are hundreds or thousands of such ways.Now another variation on this debate seems to have arisen: does playing a 5 INT mean playing as if the PC had a 50 IQ? or does it just mean playing as if one's INT is lower than some (roughly understood) average? I am reading [MENTION=6701872]AaronOfBarbaria[/MENTION] as claiming the latter.I agree with AoB on this, if only because I think there is no rule of the game correlating 5 INT to 50 IQ. (And I am still waiting for [MENTION=23751]Maxperson[/MENTION] to point to the relevant rule for any edition other than 3.5, where there apparently is an FAQ entry.)Now, unless one thinks that the number of ways to play 50 IQ is (literally) infinite - and, upthread, Maxperson has denied this - it must follow that if AoB and I are correct then there are more ways to play a 5 INT than Maxperson is allowing for.And if AoB and I are correct, it also follows that those ways are free from a constraint that Maxperson would impose (namely, free from the constraint of playing one's PC as if s/he had 50 IQ).I think this is why AoB is saying that Maxperson would impose a type of unwarranted exactitude on the playing of a 5 INT character.For my part, I think I'm even more liberal than AoB because I don't think that a low INT score obliges the player to play any particular way - but as per the conversation that [MENTION=6801328]Elfcrusher[/MENTION] and I are having on different approaches to roleplaying, I think that, in the sort of game I enjoy, the difference will emerge through the dynamics of action declaration and action resolution.</blockquote>

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