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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 8189403" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I don't see anything about dividing IQ by ten there, which is the part of your claim to which I was referring.The notion of taking your IQ score and dividing by ten to get you Intelligence score, as far as I can tell, comes from a small article in The Dragon #8 (July, 1977) , p 23, by Brian Blume, titled &quot;So, You Want Realism in D&amp;D?&quot;This tongue in cheek article promotes the IQ/10 method of generating Intelligence as part of a system &quot;guaranteed to make a player character conform more to the abilities of the actual person owning them&quot; alongside such methods as:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The number of consecutive months you've gone without missing a day of work or school due to illness = you Constitution score,</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The number of times you have appeared on TV or had your picture printed in the newspaper times 2 = your Charisma score,</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">and my favorite, 20 minus the average number of hours you spend playing D&amp;D or working on your D&amp;D campaign in the average week = your Wisdom score.</li>
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[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 8189403, member: 6787503"] I don't see anything about dividing IQ by ten there, which is the part of your claim to which I was referring. The notion of taking your IQ score and dividing by ten to get you Intelligence score, as far as I can tell, comes from a small article in The Dragon #8 (July, 1977) , p 23, by Brian Blume, titled "So, You Want Realism in D&D?" This tongue in cheek article promotes the IQ/10 method of generating Intelligence as part of a system "guaranteed to make a player character conform more to the abilities of the actual person owning them" alongside such methods as: [LIST] [*]The number of consecutive months you've gone without missing a day of work or school due to illness = you Constitution score, [*]The number of times you have appeared on TV or had your picture printed in the newspaper times 2 = your Charisma score, [*]and my favorite, 20 minus the average number of hours you spend playing D&D or working on your D&D campaign in the average week = your Wisdom score. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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