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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9822237" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I think this is one of the big question I have - is it a hopefully long term campaign with lots of combat and other rolls where failing them 20% more often might start being noticeable, or is it one that's more light-hearted?A lot of this seems to tie into the same issues as how the species ASIs weren't really meaningfully large to some and were huge to others.  Thinking back, there have been times where the %-ile interpretation of a 3 going with being in the bottom 0.004=0.4% or with a z-score of -2.53 seemed like a popular thing, in which case a 3 would emphatically would be considered as having a disability.The very act of putting ability scores on monsters and animals and trying to make them all fall between 1 and 20 or so on a scale where humans are typically 3-18 and the bonuses are linear -- and then vaguely describing the mental stats in ways that are kind of like what a psychometrician might come up with as a scale (no matter how flawed) -- also leans that way.  Things like a lion or jackal have a 3 INT in 5e and an ape having a 5 INT.  The physical stats are similar, but just less cringey.  An Ape only has a Str 16 and a Tiger of 17.   etc...Looking at them as just the bonuses to game activities (and not as percentiles or being tied into things with descriptions related to strength and intelligence) dodges that and I think makes it much easier to play a low stat (for those who think the things on the character sheets should have anything to do with how a character is played anyway; those who don't should have been fine anyway I guess). But then calls into question why bother having anything like the current abilities at all.  (Which is another topic).In any case, reading a lot of the replies above makes me much happier thinking about playing a character with a low stat.Finally, comic potential from some low stats (especially INT) feels cringe to me.  On the other hand I can see CHR going that way.</blockquote>

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