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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9678120" data-attributes="member: 4534">It's tough to translate attribute values in D&amp;D to real life equivalents.&nbsp; As it says in my favorite part of the 2024 DMG, the rules are not meant to represent reality they're meant to make for a fun, playable game.&nbsp; i.e.&nbsp; I'm not really concerned about a realistic distribution of any attributes among any given population.&nbsp; I would agree that an 8 is just below average, but is is low, and anything below that represents someone we'd typically refer to as having a mental or physical impairment of some kind.&nbsp; But that's okay, I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with playing such a character. That was my point of view for a long, long time, but lately I've had some fun rolling up random characters in various games.&nbsp; I'm finding it can also be fun to just randomly come up with a character and go along with it.&nbsp; I'm still in your camp for the most part though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9678120, member: 4534"] It's tough to translate attribute values in D&D to real life equivalents. As it says in my favorite part of the 2024 DMG, the rules are not meant to represent reality they're meant to make for a fun, playable game. i.e. I'm not really concerned about a realistic distribution of any attributes among any given population. I would agree that an 8 is just below average, but is is low, and anything below that represents someone we'd typically refer to as having a mental or physical impairment of some kind. But that's okay, I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with playing such a character. That was my point of view for a long, long time, but lately I've had some fun rolling up random characters in various games. I'm finding it can also be fun to just randomly come up with a character and go along with it. I'm still in your camp for the most part though. [/QUOTE]

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