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u/KingWeebaholic Jan 10 '23
Played a goliath in AL and kept rolling well on intelligence checks despite having an Int of 8, so roleplaying his epiphanies was always fun. Thunk was his name, âcause that sound Thunk make when Papa drop Thunk.
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u/BigMcThickHuge Jan 11 '23
I had Trunk.
Trunk carry big tree trunk, like hammer.
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u/Swimming__Bird Jan 11 '23
That was the name of our Timber Rogue.
We had a group that was basically all spells and Melee DPS, but no Rogue. It became a problem. So my goliath barb hacked a tree trunk out, bolted it to a long chain, bolted some handles to it...and carved a face into it. Trunk the Timber Rogue.
Locked chest. Trunk will take care of it. Smash the lock until it is "picked."
Locked door. Battering ram of finesse.
Might be traps down the hall? Throw Trunk down it and drag it across what could be pressure plates.
Need to smooth talk some info out of bandits? My goliath would ask questions amd when they wouldn't give me the info "Trunk, dis guy here ain't hearin' me...maybe you can speak gooder wit him..." like a terrible ventriloquist then smash a toe. Then repeat the question with a squeaky voice.
By the end, it was like my character had two personalities. He'd have conversations with him and kept his share of the loot (which came out of the barb's cut) seperate, buy him drinks and get weird looks at taverns. He was the most dutiful rogue we've ever adventured with.
Trunk had a lot of darts, burns and scars, but he was dependable.
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Right now I'm playing Ton, a kobold fighter who likes big axes. Recently we had a session where all of our characters made wishes that got slightly monkey's pawed. Except Ton. He wished for a big axe. He was given an axe bigger than he was. Even though there's no way he could use it in combat, he dragged that thing back to our base, super happy about getting exactly what he wished for.
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u/Ponderputty Jan 11 '23
I had a goliath barbarian named Thud.
Thud very strong. Thud laugh at small gnome.friend. thud not dumb though. Thud laconic.
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u/Confident_Problem506 Jan 11 '23
I had Trunk Trunk.
Double T carry Trunk while Trunk hold Trunk. Trunk Trunk can only use Trunk like hammer once.
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u/Psychoboy777 Warlock Jan 11 '23
I like to imagine low INT characters who roll well as coming to the right conclusions for the wrong reasons. "Sparkly crown hurt eyes! SMASH!"
"You're right, Klaarg! The crown is clearly the source of his powers!
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u/ElGuapo49 Jan 11 '23
That's how I've been playing my Barbarian. One time I rolled a high investigation check and found a secret passage. RPing though, Rembrandt just leaned up against a rock which opened a door
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u/StarkMaximum Barbarian Jan 11 '23
You guys do realize you can play low Int characters without resorting to Hulk speak right
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u/Anomander Jan 11 '23
I don't play characters with room-temperature IQs just to talk like normal me, that's hitting too close to home.
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u/TheUnluckyBard Jan 11 '23
I did a low-int valor bard who was constantly "showing how smart she was" by telling the party totally-not-true trivia facts. Like "whales vomit salt, that's why the ocean is salty" and "some ladders are carnivorous."
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u/HardlyCharming Jan 11 '23
Ladders COULD be carnivorous.
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u/Frenchorican Jan 11 '23
Please tell her DM to make a mimic disguised as a ladder
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u/Fyrnen24 Wizard Jan 11 '23
I'm actually often threatining my players (when we're talking, not while in game) that ramdom objects, espeically stairs and ladders could be mimics.
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u/Anomander Jan 11 '23
Yes, but the player isn't quite quick enough to make an ongoing gimmick out of malapropism.
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u/TacticalSpackle Jan 11 '23
Sounds to me like Thunk would have gone, âHIM WEAR SHINY, MORE POWERFUL.
TAKE SHINY, HIM LOSE POWER
People gotta remember, inarticulate doesnât mean lacking insight.
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy Jan 11 '23
Don't need to know how a target item works to know that it is a target item.
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u/Omsus Rules Lawyer Jan 11 '23
FWIW 8 shouldn't be that stupid, 10 being avg. and 12 being just a bit clever. Int 8 is like being an illiterate adult maybe. 6 is where things get really dumb.
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u/MindlessOpening318 Jan 11 '23
How weak would a str of 6 be do you figure?
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u/ArkamaZ Jan 11 '23
Pencil pusher, probably. I always heard 8 as the norm for a commoners stats.
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u/RhysA Jan 11 '23
Commoners are flat 10 across the board in their standard stat block.
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u/somepersonoverthere Jan 11 '23
For Str of <10 we used to use the concept of take the number and double it, and that's the age of an average kid with that strength. Your average healthy 20 year old is a 10. An 8 str is the average 16yr old still coming into her body. A 6 is a 12 yr old by comparison which feels right for like a kobold. It's not perfect but it's a way to think about it.
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u/tlaz10 Jan 11 '23
I don't know. Most of the people I meet daily are fairly stupid. I'd think average intelligence doesn't mean much. Plus, with the amount of idiots I've had come into my place of work who couldn't read signs I'd say most of the population is illiterate as well. You might need a 12 to be able to read.
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u/name00124 DM (Dungeon Memelord) Jan 11 '23
come into my place of work who couldn't read signs
I hear you, but I'm more optimistic. I think most people can read, but absolutely hate doing so. Look no further than r/dndmemes for supporting evidence.
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u/immerc Jan 11 '23
One memorable moment from Critical Role season 1 was when Grog was polymorphed into a Giant Eagle... and became smarter.
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u/space_beach Jan 11 '23
See this is how you roleplay these scenarios. Sure my int is low, but you know what my character knows a lot about? Fighting. Fighting all types of bad guys from grand magical ones to brutes. So if I roll high, we can make it work. Voices always help đ
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u/NotXiJinpingGoUSA Jan 11 '23
âThunk smashâ
âThunk runâ
âThunk sometimes feel fear of own mortalityâ
âThunk hungryâ
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u/ConfusedJonSnow Jan 11 '23
I DMed for a Low-Intelligence Barbarian with a really clever player, whenever he rolled high on an Int check he would rp having a nosebleed and it was always hilarious.
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u/AdminsAreLazyID10TS Jan 11 '23 edited Jan 11 '23
Just saying, the mortal stat range of 1-20 maps cleanly to an IQ test's functional range of 1-200.
8 int isn't a mouth breathing moron. It's just the guy who struggles a bit in math class but can make up the difference with effort.
Even if you don't like the IQ example a small penalty like this is still just slightly below average.
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u/BenjaminGeiger Jan 11 '23
Forrest Gump would have an int of 8 by that standard though.
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u/TheLostBarbarian Jan 11 '23
Iâd say 8 is about right for Forrest Gump but he would have a high wisdom score and a decent score in everything else.
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u/BenjaminGeiger Jan 11 '23
Yeah. Forrest Gump is basically an adventurer with intelligence as a dump stat.
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u/ImortalK Wizard Jan 11 '23
This made me think of my current character named Brick đ§±. Heâs a gnomeish barbarian with a strangely square divot in his head. His 10 Int (8 +2 racial bonus) is just enough to make sense between the long pauses while his brain reboots.
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u/snakebite262 Dice Goblin Jan 10 '23
To be fair, our group allows our characters to pool their ideas. Yes, the player of the PC gets the final note, but you can provide suggestions.
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u/Souperplex Paladin Jan 10 '23
Smart PCs have the collective intelligence of the players.
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u/Limp-Pride-6428 Jan 10 '23
What if that is still a 10.
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u/Athanar90 Jan 10 '23
Your group has 10 whole points between them? Impressive.
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u/snakebite262 Dice Goblin Jan 10 '23
They can still take suggestions, but keep in mind how they'd respond to a situation. Unless they have a specialization in a skill/craft, or if they're a bard, they'll probably be limited to their knowledge.
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u/immerc Jan 11 '23
Collective stats make things more fun. Everyone gets to pitch in to figure out how the high charisma character would actually be able to seduce his target.
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u/Souperplex Paladin Jan 11 '23
Bard: "My Charisma will let me seduce her!"
Table: "Our Charisma will let us seduce her comrade!"
Soviet anthem
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u/artrald-7083 Jan 10 '23
I am playing a low Int low Wis character in one campaign at the moment. I am RPing him as the kind of dipshit who is only right by accident, and loves giving fatherly advice. It's hilarious. (I got party and DM buyin before playing the ideas man as a complete idiot.)
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u/25hourenergy Jan 10 '23
âYou should listen to me. I came up with hundreds of plans in my life and only one of them got me killed.â (Jason from the Good Place)
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u/Kingman9K Jan 10 '23
I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
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u/Cube4Add5 Sorcerer Jan 11 '23
The dnd equivalent of a molotov is summon greater demon in this context. Summon it, let it kill the enemy youâre fighting, then you have to fight the demon you summoned instead
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u/Allestyr Jan 11 '23
The dnd equivalent of a molotov
Sometimes the DnD equivalent to a molotov is just a molotov. You don't need spell slots to make things
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u/mathiastck Jan 11 '23
I am aware of Fireball's area effect and I am casting it as intended.
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u/self_of_steam Jan 11 '23
This was how we ended up killing the BBEG of our last game. Warlock wasn't going to end the campaign without summoning a demon in an enclosed space, my wild magic barbarian had a lot of good rolls and didn't believe in death, and BBEG had such awful rolls (the DM showed us) that it was just a clusterfuck the BBEG was not prepared for. It was hilarious and weirdly more satisfying than an honorable fight. Also my barb died to the damn demon lmao
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u/MohKohn Jan 11 '23
As my partner calls it "summon greater mistake" along with "summon lesser mistake"
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u/NotAplicable Jan 11 '23
In all seriousness, how bad of an idea would this be to try with a character specifically designed for fighting demons?
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u/Cube4Add5 Sorcerer Jan 11 '23
Probably pretty good. You could do a hexblade/paladin multiclass to get you demon summoning and anti-demon spells/features such as the Oath of the Watchers/Ancients/Devotion channel divinities that can all turn fiends. Plus everyone knows how good hexblade/paladin is
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u/cumquistador6969 Jan 11 '23
Personally I prefer a sack of uncontrolled skeletal rats.
Really brings new life to a party.
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u/Polytheus93 Jan 10 '23
Everytime I have to think of low int high wis character I always end up thinking of Jason
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u/SpaceGangrel Jan 10 '23
Pretty sure he's low int/low wis/high cha haha
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u/Polytheus93 Jan 10 '23
The only reason I say high wisdom is that since the first episode, too many things he's said as a dumb throw away line was relevant to the plot. Otherwise, absolutely low low hi
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u/Teh-Esprite Warlock Jan 11 '23
That's his charisma, those things weren't relevant until he invoked them.
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u/Polytheus93 Jan 11 '23
Invoking them? It's not like anything would have happened otherwise
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u/SpringenHans Jan 11 '23
Jason figured it out? JASON?
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u/Finito-1994 Jan 11 '23
Dude was the first one to suspect something was up in the first neighborhood. He did think they were in a game show.
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u/dmon654 Jan 10 '23
The only people that actually listened to him were a junky that could only roll 1 on Wisdom saves and a divine android literally programed to listen to everyone.
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u/DrRagnorocktopus Forever DM Jan 10 '23
I mean, that does kinda make sense. Just probability wise if your making a bunch of plans about how to do dangerous stuff, eventually one is gonna get you killed. That doesn't mean it was necessarily a bad plan.
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u/gingerdude97 Jan 10 '23
In case you havenât watched the show, the plan that got him killed was that he locked himself inside of a safe, had a friend try to install the safe in a restaurant, he would hop out and steal the recipes of the restaurant, go back into the safe, and his friend would remove it then.
He suffocated, not helped by the fact that he used a bunch of aerosol cans to get himself high while he was in the safe
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u/DrRagnorocktopus Forever DM Jan 10 '23
Yeah, that is a stupid plan.
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u/fghjconner Jan 11 '23
I mean, he did consider that he might suffocate, which is why he brought a snorkel.
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u/ap0st Jan 11 '23
Iâm pretty sure they were after the money not the recipes. His partner even asks them to show him where they keep the guacamole money which is one Of my favorite lines
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u/DresdenPI Jan 10 '23
"I'll just do what I normally do to people, confuse them until they want to punch me in the face." (Jason from He Who Fights With Monsters)
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u/artrald-7083 Jan 11 '23
Imagine, like, Jason but he is a Warhammer Fantasy esque dwarf trollslayer.
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u/urktheturtle Jan 10 '23
The crown clearly has ghosts in it, and ghosts make sandwhiches, which will feed the bad guy!
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u/KupoMcMog Jan 10 '23
I got a dragonborn Sorlock who's dump stats were int and wis. He is suuuuuuuuuper dumb, but extremely charismastic. He's a total surfer dude who wants to find the biggest wave and try to figure out why his hands make sparkles.
The lock part is my favorite part. His patron speaks to him in dreams, like many do, but he has just assumed it his Grandma. So he thinks he's getting these super awesome powers because he was GramGram's favorite.
Also, going to be a wake-up call when that all comes crashing down once he figures out a horrible eldritch creature has been kinda putting him into this contract.
And my more happy-ending remix is he's Pact of the Raven Queen, and he's more than happy to do her bidding to keep the balance plus he gets himself a little dracoling familar.
But that's for another day.
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u/jagger_wolf Jan 11 '23
Plot twist: GramGram is the eldritch horror beyond mortal comprehension and your dude really is her favorite.
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u/TrexPushupBra Jan 11 '23
Especially if there is nothing you can do to make GramGram angry, but you can disappoint GramGram
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u/southpaw85 Jan 10 '23 edited Jan 11 '23
Low int/wisdom and high char basically makes you Captain Kirk. âMy plan is fool proof, but just incase it isnât, donât send anyone of value.â
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u/Mr_Gon_Adas Jan 10 '23
And if low CHA, then is Zap Branigan
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u/Aarakocra Jan 11 '23
Zapp has to have decent charisma, considering he so easily fools everyone around him into believing his hype.
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u/TheJonThomas Jan 11 '23
Nah, Zap just has a good media team. So a bard that's some sort of green with high Charisma.
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u/HornyFemboyGaming Jan 10 '23
Himbo mage
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u/Ultraviolet_Motion Jan 10 '23
Playing a low primary stat caster is the worst thing you could do. You're basically guaranteeing every single enemy succeeds on your saving throws.
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u/axestraddler Jan 10 '23
Sorlock primary stat is gonna be CHA, though? So dumping INT and WIS shouldn't be too bad, other than often failing those throws
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u/AngryT-Rex Jan 10 '23 edited Jan 24 '24
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u/2punornot2pun Jan 10 '23
Low int high wisdom Sorcerer here.
Here's my backstory, only in spells:
Create bonfire.
Mending.
Friends.
Jump.
Detect Thoughts.
Misty Step.
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u/ItsGotToMakeSense Jan 10 '23
Reminds me of Todd from Bojack Horseman. There's a joke in season 1 where you think he's going to find evidence that Bojack sabotaged his rock opera but instead comes up with this ridiculous cockamamie stream of consciousness that randomly, accidentally, leads to him figuring it out on his own.
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u/StormblessedFool Jan 10 '23
I have a character right now with 6 wisdom and 15 int. So I roleplay him as someone with crazy plans. He's smart enough to come up with creative plans, but not wise enough to tell when they're too risky to try and pull off.
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u/sh4d0wm4n2018 Jan 10 '23
"Look, if you mix just the right amount of gunpowder, in this case, a keg and a half, with the grease spell and the lightning spell, you can create a chain reaction that will set off this glyph that's in the middle of that mine shaft."
"What do shockwaves have to do with anything?"
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u/biologicalhighway Warlock Jan 11 '23
I have a low Int low Wis fitness coach Reborn Bard I'm hoping to play soon. Since he doesn't need to eat or drink he gives horrible advice that'll kill most others. "You need more fiber in your diet. Easiest way? Eat rocks, they're great and tasty!"
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u/Jarjarthejedi Jan 10 '23
Low int doesn't mean "idiot who can never figure anything out". Bonky sounds like they are good at fighting, so identifying an enemy's weak point sounds totally in character. Maybe state it differently ("Bonky see shiny crown make bad guy better. We get rid of shiny crown and win!") but "your character is stupid so they can never figure anything out is bad TTRPG.
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u/PresidentBreadstick Jan 10 '23
Or as other people in the thread have put it, maybe have a only want to smash the crown for a different reason, and then have the players see the Enemyâs reaction to a massive barbarian trying to make their forehead concave
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u/NumerousSun4282 Jan 11 '23
I don't know if I'd correctly interpret the bad guys reaction to the barbarian attempting to "make their forehead concave" would be to assume it was because of the crown.
"I see the baddie duck the barbarian's axe and hold onto his crown so I shout to the party, 'thats it! aim for his weak spot! It's his face!'"
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u/DirkBabypunch Jan 11 '23
And if you don't think there's any way your little idiot can work out a piece of information, it's just as easy to have a player with a smarter PC have your revelation in game.
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u/cookiedough320 Jan 11 '23
Yeah, these are still games in the end. You're supposed to try to succeed at your characters' goals.
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u/Unexpected_Sage Goblin Deez Nuts Jan 11 '23
So like Goku: Dumb by normal standards but a tactical/battle genius
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u/AGamingGuy Jan 11 '23
you can always rationalize it with your character just figuring it out, also battle IQ doesn't have to be linked to characters IQ
plus it makes sense for a character that fights a lot to figure out a gimmick of an enemy
and if party still refuses to accept it, you can either be petty and not explain stuff when you find it out or you can just pass the info to other players and have one of their characters claim the credit
i personally would just not explain when i figure stuff out after getting shut down with "your character is too stupid", you don't want to hear it, fine i am not telling
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One of my favorite characters I've ever played was a painfully low int warlock in a short campaign meant to give me a break from DMing.
I knew the setting well, but wanted to offset that in a more fun way than giving my character a reason to know everything: quietly made a deal to start with max cha in exchange for an int of five or six, and had the DM's blessing to not announce my rolls for any int checks, just to provide the information I thought the roll deserved with no oversight.
I spent the entire campaign being wildly incorrect about every single thing I could justify making an int check for, always in the most confidently credible fashion I could manage, and it took the group a number of sessions to catch on that I was the closest I could manage to being the dunning-kruger effect personified, and to stop believing anything I said in-character.
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u/YoutuberCameronBallZ Wizard Jan 10 '23
Me want bonk crown
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u/tsuolakussa Jan 10 '23
It too shiny... Make eyes feel bad when me sees it. Make me wants to break!
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u/get_wet5334 Jan 10 '23
"look shiny crown! Looks like a good bonk bonk"
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u/get_wet5334 Jan 10 '23
I mean, okay? I was just trying to show how you can be in character but get the point across. I'm aware there is no "right" way to play a character
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u/Far_Cap_3574 Necromancer Jan 10 '23
Ahh, the sharp edge of "It's what my character would do."
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u/Stetson007 DM (Dungeon Memelord) Jan 10 '23
I'm currently playing a wood elf monk with a lot of knowledge of plant life and some historical events he's been researching his entire life, but other than that he has a hard time applying things. He's got high wisdom but low intelligence, so he's got a shit ton of stuff in his head, but it drifts around in there constantly. He forgets about stuff often, but is wise enough to make up for it. Can't identify a plant? Pick it with a piece of cloth to prevent possible irritant exposure. That's how I have laxative mushrooms in my bag. Couldn't identify it and picked it with a piece of cloth. Our ranger decided to eat one and literally shit himself.
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u/Unexpected_Sage Goblin Deez Nuts Jan 11 '23
Considering we're talking about low INT characters, I'd say it's the blunt edge
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u/killer_orange_2 Jan 10 '23
I think people over roleplay poor mental stats. Like 10 int/wis/cha are the average intelligence. So if you have a 8 int that doesn't mean your brain dead, just book learning isn't your thing.
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u/commentsandopinions Jan 11 '23
6 int/18 wis bugbear monk gang. You can tell you exactly where to strike on that work to send him down like a sack of bricks but is 100% sure that a caterpillar, snake, and eel are all the same thing
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Or instead, having low confidence in your own ideas, and being reluctant to voice them.
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u/Sad-Response-9644 Paladin Jan 10 '23
Good intelligence as a character cannot save me from being a low intelligence player finger guns
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u/Its_Stroompf Dice Goblin Jan 10 '23
I play characters who's primary feature is hit stuff, because my primary feature is hit stuff.
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u/infosec_qs Jan 11 '23
This is actually a much more interesting problem than the other one, tbh.
I was playing a game with an 18 int artificer and started asking my DM questions like âwhat does my character think about this puzzle? Is there anything his staggering intelligence reveals to him that is beyond the grasp of my own, feeble mind?â
In that case, itâs really up to the DM how much of their own plans they want to reveal, but this is definitely a matter of âtalk it through with your DM, because a character with an int that makes their PC look like a brick having a bad day would know things I couldnât possibly.â
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u/KenCannonMKXI Jan 10 '23
Playing a 6 Int Barbarian leads to two scenarios:
If the party is stuck on a puzzle, I offer my suggestion out of character and propose that our Undead Warlock (brains of this operation) be the one to volunteer said solution
I give the most straightforward solution possible:
Eat bag of holding so gear wonât be stolen
Steal entire cage of hellhounds rather than spend crucial minutes opening it
Yell at pirate driving enemy ship that he better stop doing that, unless heâd like to die
Tends to work out. Millieâs dull as a brick, but sometimes sheâs got a point.
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u/Due-Equivalent-1489 Jan 10 '23
The bard I play would like Millie. âOf course the brick has a point. Eight in fact. And every one of those points hurt when thrown at you.â
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u/Cellyst Jan 11 '23
10 int player playing an 18 int character casting Command: "Autodefenestrate!"
18 int player playing an 8 int character casting Command: "Lose, loser >:l"
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u/Unexpected_Sage Goblin Deez Nuts Jan 11 '23
DM, for the 10 INT player: "The enemy does not know the meaning of Autodefenestrate."
DM, for the 18 INT player: "The enemy immediately drops their weapon, holding their hands above their head."
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u/marcher138 Jan 10 '23
I'd say if you can come up with a dumb enough reason to get to the right idea, you're good.
My former low-int character would say "kings are powerful. Bad guy is powerful. And what do they both have? Shiny hats."
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u/No_Amoeba_3715 Chaotic Stupid Jan 10 '23
When my Paladin with a whopping 8 Int is able to figure out how to defeat Shemshime before everyone else just because the context is provided plain as day in a children's book yet the rest of the party's only thought process was "keep hitting it" with their 12+ Int scores.
Just because your character is dumb doesn't automatically mean they're incapable of having a good idea.
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u/David_the_Wanderer Jan 10 '23
Just because your character is dumb doesn't automatically mean they're incapable of having a good idea.
Also an INT of 8 isn't really particularly dumb - you're one standard deviation below the average person. You're basically not that book smart, maybe complex calculations take you a long time and you have to put a bit more effort into academical learning than the average student, but you're not a drooling idiot who can't understand cause and effect.
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u/immerc Jan 11 '23
academical
Good example of the kinds of words an int 8 character would use. :)
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u/Pretend-Advertising6 Jan 10 '23
They only had a 10% higher chance to make the save then you, stats arenât that important in making a skill roll as proficiency can make up for it.
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u/Rickados Jan 10 '23
Depends how dumb, if you have an int of 4 then maybe your character canât come up with much
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u/blinten Jan 10 '23
With a high (18) wis and low int, I would think the best way to play is to act like an intelligent dnd-noob (so you don't know the setting), who can't do math or science. After all you don't need to know the history of the fire plane to realize that a fire elemental might be immun to fire damage, and possibly weak to cold damage.
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u/IlitterateAuthor Jan 10 '23
Lot of people don't realize that int 8-9 isn't braindead or animal, it's just a stupid person. It's the intelligence of a (insert political stance you disagree with) voter
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u/Its-been-a-long-day Jan 10 '23
If it were one of my many dumb barbarians, I'd have just taken the crown off his head without notice.
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u/ValkarianHunter Jan 10 '23
I get the frustration but i really like rping everything but charisma
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u/Souperplex Paladin Jan 10 '23
The smart PC at your table has the collective knowledge of every player at your table.
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u/sofaking1133 Jan 10 '23
Bold of you to assume my players have a single dude who didn't dump int across an 8-character party
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u/funcancelledfornow Jan 10 '23
8-character party sounds massive, how do you handle that?
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u/sofaking1133 Jan 10 '23
Turn timers are big help, even though it felt extremely douchey to bring them in initially,
A lot of prompting when they have trouble coming to a descision, on top of making sure they aren't wasting time talking past each other/ in circles
Copious sidechannels to make sure that people are on a trajectory that they're cool with, and making sure that any friction either is strictly RP or is squashed early
Literally homebrewing every single monster because nothing can survive 8 people's worth of focus fire, and anything that can can probably 1 shot the PCs
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u/ChemicalThread Wizard Jan 11 '23
I've got an 8 intelligence, 20 wisdom monk named Agni.
I make him talk like hulk hogan and give out surprisingly thoughtful advice.
My friends have sworn to die for Agni.
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u/yeetingthisaccount01 Druid Jan 10 '23
I love my druid to bits but they canonically don't know shit about religion, only having learned a bit while adventuring. meanwhile I'm a massive mythology nerd so I have to be careful not to infodump while speaking as my druid because it makes no sense for them to know anything or anyone beyond Thor, Odin, Freya, Frey, and some of the realms
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u/RedRider1138 Jan 10 '23
Hmm. Wouldnât your Druid have a deep connection with the World Tree?
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u/Successful-Floor-738 Necromancer Jan 10 '23
Tiktokers are some of the dumbest morons but they can still use ideas and form sentences.
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u/Yoffeepop Fighter Jan 10 '23
Haha I drew this comic. My husband was like "your character isn't can't form sentences dumb. More like, I'd microwave a phone to charge it dumb."
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u/Dramatic-Emphasis-43 Jan 10 '23
I donât like role-playing low int characters as dumb all the time. In fact, Iâve had her in character tell people sheâs not dumb and she fights intelligently and tactically. She just isnât so good with books and junk.
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u/Souperplex Paladin Jan 10 '23 edited Jan 10 '23
Comic by u/Yoffeepop.
The answer when you're not sure if your character can infer what you've inferred is to ask the DM if you can make an Intelligence check (Possibly with an associated skill) to infer it.
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u/Hatta00 Jan 10 '23
You don't even have to ask the DM. The DM will tell you if you need to make a roll.
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u/Fantastic_Wrap120 Jan 10 '23
you can still say this.
Though none of it happens in character. Instead, the smart character may state this ingame, or your character can go "Me want bonk crown! Help me friends! There be loots in crown."
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u/7BitBrian Jan 10 '23
People also misunderstand stats. 8 is not mentally challenged. It's just being slightly below average intelligence, so just like 50% of the people you interact with in everyday life. If you have a character with an INT of 8 and you are playing them as dumber than your average citizen you are doing it wrong.
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u/catch-a-riiiiiiiiide Jan 11 '23
I can't act smarter than I am, so I'm not gonna act dumber than I am. Besides, stats are there for rolls. Descriptive not prescriptive.
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u/Keeganlateman Jan 10 '23
I rp low int or wis like this
Itâs got something to do with the crown. Letâs whack him more.
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u/Giveidddawaynow Jan 10 '23
My very first experience with dnd was me playing a warforged that I wrote to be largely used to being a tool for a wealthy diplomat, thus not having a large capability for autonomous decision making. I did this because I was unsure as to how to play the game and wanted it to be easy on me. So for MUCH of the campaign I played him how I thought he would deal with cerebral situations, in that I didn't do a whole lot of meaningful decision making
I don't necessarily regret the character, as I was new, but I do make it a point to make characters now that can actually contribute, because I felt bad.
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u/Pixelpaint_Pashkow Wizard Jan 10 '23
Thatâs why i always play someone âsmartâ (just as smart as me anyhow)
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u/Pretend-Advertising6 Jan 10 '23
Fun fact the creator of dnd Gary gygax disagreed with this and said if the players came up with something their characters can do it. (Also their where no skills in old dnd put side of theifs and their variants and stats matter even less then they do in 5e)
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u/EGGOdragon Jan 10 '23
I have an idea for a high int low wiz artificer that I canât wait to play I plan to play her as an incredibly smart dumbass
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u/Monty423 Jan 10 '23
Being a rocket engineer irl and having to rp an illiterate fighter gets tricky sometimes.
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23
Me the player realized my DM's twist about 4 months ago. They know I know. I haven't told anyone else because I don't wanna ruin the reveal. My character has no idea and is close personal friends with the BBEG. It hurts knowing what's coming