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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadras" data-source="post: 6848090" data-attributes="member: 6688277">To answer your question. My personal feeling, and this may just be my inner idealist, is that those who actually roll their ability scores/hit points, will roleplay as 'expected'. The point-buy suits the non-risk takers and the min-maxers so they will at least have an 8 INT. That way both camps are satisfied <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  True I am, based on the mechanics given character creation process.and We have 'that guy' at our table, but he is generally harmless he only echoes what everyone else might possibly be thinking but isn't willing to comment. In any event if someone was playing a 5 INT character - the rest of the players would be auditing his/her roleplaying. As DM, I wouldn't even have to get involved - and for that reason no one plays a 5 INT.I merely wanted to highlight that the mechanical reality of a 5e character with 5 INT is a rather a rare case and that the designers, through the mechanics, were in favour of more balanced characters.</blockquote>