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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 8087490">See, that's totally reasonable and valid.&nbsp; I get that.What I don't get is the insistence from some folks that somehow the PHB requires people to interpret it that way.There are clearly logical inconsistencies in the rules.&nbsp; According the rules a player with 6 Int is 10% worse than average at intelligence related tasks.&nbsp; But an Ape has 6 Int and apes aren't realistically only 10% worse than average humans at intelligence tasks.&nbsp; And if you assume that a 6 Int is, by definition, as dumb as an ape, you run into problems with statistical distributions no matter what dice method you use: basically every city would be teeming with morons.For me the only solution is to treat the ability score as nothing other than a dice modifier, and everything beyond that is roleplaying.&nbsp; Thus a human with a 6 is roleplayed as slow-witted (or constantly distracted, or whatever else explains the modifier) and an Ape is roleplayed as....an ape.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 8087490"] See, that's totally reasonable and valid. I get that. What I don't get is the insistence from some folks that somehow the PHB [I]requires[/I] people to interpret it that way. There are clearly logical inconsistencies in the rules. According the rules a player with 6 Int is 10% worse than average at intelligence related tasks. But an Ape has 6 Int and apes aren't realistically only 10% worse than average humans at intelligence tasks. And if you assume that a 6 Int is, by definition, as dumb as an ape, you run into problems with statistical distributions no matter what dice method you use: basically every city would be teeming with morons. For me the only solution is to treat the ability score as nothing other than a dice modifier, and everything beyond that is roleplaying. Thus a human with a 6 is roleplayed as slow-witted (or constantly distracted, or whatever else explains the modifier) and an Ape is roleplayed as....an ape. [/QUOTE]

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