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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7146511" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Yeah, but that's a roleplaying choice, not a mechanical consequence of low stats. My anecdotal observation is that people who disliked rolled stats are generally unwilling to roleplay low Int anyway, so they'd probably just play JoeBob with his full tactical capabilities, which are considerable. (In fact, JoeBob is one of the few PCs you'll ever get to play who actually gets SMARTER when he Polymorphs into a Giant Ape and starts chucking rocks!)But then again, they wouldn't be playing JoeBob in the first place at my table--they'd have just taken the standard array or point buy.Anyway, I don't like roleplaying low Int generally, so I thought up JoeBob's senility/trigger-response pattern as my way of making him fun to play. I would enjoy playing JoeBob and mumbling cryptic things and stumbling around. I wouldn't enjoy doing so every session for years at a time, but there isn't any PC I'd enjoy playing every session for years at a time--variety is the spice of life, and that's what character trees are for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7146511, member: 6787650"] Yeah, but that's a roleplaying choice, not a mechanical consequence of low stats. My anecdotal observation is that people who disliked rolled stats are generally unwilling to roleplay low Int anyway, so they'd probably just play JoeBob with his full tactical capabilities, which are considerable. (In fact, JoeBob is one of the few PCs you'll ever get to play who actually gets SMARTER when he Polymorphs into a Giant Ape and starts chucking rocks!) But then again, they wouldn't be playing JoeBob in the first place at my table--they'd have just taken the standard array or point buy. Anyway, I don't like roleplaying low Int generally, so I thought up JoeBob's senility/trigger-response pattern as my way of making him fun to play. I would enjoy playing JoeBob and mumbling cryptic things and stumbling around. I wouldn't enjoy doing so every session for years at a time, but there isn't [I]any[/I] PC I'd enjoy playing every session for years at a time--variety is the spice of life, and that's what character trees are for. [/QUOTE]

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