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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 9521869" data-attributes="member: 53980">Yeah, it is. It's the specific rule for the Idiot card in the DoMT, not a general rule. But it is a rule.The rules say that having your Intelligence reduced to 2 results in a -4 penalty to Intelligence-based checks and DCs. They say nothing more about starting with low stats, even though low stats are possible in RAW with rolled stats.Someone on ENWorld wrote a great post a few years back (wish I could find it) that actually mapped out the distribution of stats and showed that low stats weren't that dramatically below the norm. Basically, that even someone with a 3 Intelligence isn't mentally handicapped or anything, they're just moderately less intelligent than an average person. Assuming that's the case, you don't need special rules about being able to speak and so forth with low intelligence. The existing rules handle it fine (and say that yes, you can still speak and cast spells).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 9521869, member: 53980"] Yeah, it is. It's the specific rule for the Idiot card in the DoMT, not a general rule. But it is a rule. The rules say that having your Intelligence reduced to 2 results in a -4 penalty to Intelligence-based checks and DCs. They say nothing more about starting with low stats, even though low stats are possible in RAW with rolled stats. Someone on ENWorld wrote a great post a few years back (wish I could find it) that actually mapped out the distribution of stats and showed that low stats weren't that dramatically below the norm. Basically, that even someone with a 3 Intelligence isn't mentally handicapped or anything, they're just moderately less intelligent than an average person. Assuming that's the case, you don't need special rules about being able to speak and so forth with low intelligence. The existing rules handle it fine (and say that yes, you can still speak and cast spells). [/QUOTE]

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