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<blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 9867682" data-attributes="member: 32164">I think the most logical interpretation of rolling for stats in an RPG is that they represent the range of characteristics that can be expected in &quot;professional adventurers.&quot;If we took INT as an example, and mapped it to real-world IQ, 8-13 maps to the 65% that has an IQ between 85 and 115, or &quot;Average.&quot; But it's worth remembering that what we (today) think of as truly &quot;intellectually disabled&quot; is actually very, very rare (&lt;0.5% of the population). In D&amp;D terms, these people would have an INT of 2. An Int of 3 or 4 roughly corresponds (percentage-wise) to an IQ under 70.As a way of conveying what IQ means to people that aren't professional psychologists, it's said that people with a 70 IQ have the mental age of a 9-12 year-old child and would therefore be roughly limited to the mental resasoning (math, reading skills, puzzle-solving) of an average 10 year-old. Similarly, a PC with a 3 or 4 INT would be about like a (non-precocious) third-grader. They're perfectly capable of functioning, but they aren't always going to be thinking things through.Is that level of intelligence &quot;realistic&quot; for an adventurer? Probably not. But anything in the more normal range of low (an INT of 5-8) is just &quot;Grog, who's not that bright.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnSnow, post: 9867682, member: 32164"] I think the most logical interpretation of rolling for stats in an RPG is that they represent the range of characteristics that can be expected in "professional adventurers." If we took INT as an example, and mapped it to real-world IQ, 8-13 maps to the 65% that has an IQ between 85 and 115, or "Average." But it's worth remembering that what we (today) think of as truly "intellectually disabled" is actually very, very rare (<0.5% of the population). In D&D terms, these people would have an INT of 2. An Int of 3 or 4 roughly corresponds (percentage-wise) to an IQ under 70. As a way of conveying what IQ means to people that aren't professional psychologists, it's said that people with a 70 IQ have the mental age of a 9-12 year-old child and would therefore be roughly limited to the mental resasoning (math, reading skills, puzzle-solving) of an average 10 year-old. Similarly, a PC with a 3 or 4 INT would be about like a (non-precocious) third-grader. They're perfectly capable of functioning, but they aren't always going to be thinking things through. Is that level of intelligence "realistic" for an adventurer? Probably not. But anything in the more normal range of low (an INT of 5-8) is just "Grog, who's not that bright." [/QUOTE]

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