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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8189263" data-attributes="member: 29398">Playable, yes; but barely, and with rather severe limitations.&nbsp; Much like a character with a 3 in any other stat.Yes.&nbsp; And there it gets tricky - someone in the 6-8 range could be an idiot savant, brilliant at one particular (and sometimes obscure) thing and completely hopeless at anything else.&nbsp; Or it could be someone who's just rather slow on the uptake and-or needs to be told what to do all the time.&nbsp; Hodor from Game of Thrones would be in the 6-ish range, I think.You don't.&nbsp; You play it subjective, and look for patterns.&nbsp; If an Int-7 character comes up with the right answer once in a while, who cares.&nbsp; If that same character comes up with the right answer on a regular basis, there's a problem.Not sure how anyone else does it, but sometimes if I'm playing a less-than-brilliant character and I-as-player come up with a good idea, I'll roll for myself (using roll-under-stat) to see if my character might have thought of it.&nbsp; Fail the roll, idea gets self-censored.If you're a reasonably bright person playing a not-so-bright character it's on you-as-player to, in effect, largely stop thinking.&nbsp; Don't even try to solve the puzzles or riddles when they arise.&nbsp; Better yet, if you insist on thinking, try thinking of egregiously wrong answers and then advocate for those. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8189263, member: 29398"] Playable, yes; but barely, and with rather severe limitations. Much like a character with a 3 in any other stat. Yes. And there it gets tricky - someone in the 6-8 range could be an idiot savant, brilliant at one particular (and sometimes obscure) thing and completely hopeless at anything else. Or it could be someone who's just rather slow on the uptake and-or needs to be told what to do all the time. Hodor from Game of Thrones would be in the 6-ish range, I think. You don't. You play it subjective, and look for patterns. If an Int-7 character comes up with the right answer once in a while, who cares. If that same character comes up with the right answer on a regular basis, there's a problem. Not sure how anyone else does it, but sometimes if I'm playing a less-than-brilliant character and I-as-player come up with a good idea, I'll roll for myself (using roll-under-stat) to see if my character might have thought of it. Fail the roll, idea gets self-censored. If you're a reasonably bright person playing a not-so-bright character it's on you-as-player to, in effect, largely stop thinking. Don't even try to solve the puzzles or riddles when they arise. Better yet, if you insist on thinking, try thinking of egregiously wrong answers and then advocate for those. :) [/QUOTE]

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