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JLV · 09-30-2018, 01:03 PM

Yep. That was a main argument against the old rules. Basically, no one thought that a great knight should also be the smartest guy in creation; in fact, most of the better ones were no more than bright, based on our discussion at the time (and some were frighteningly stupid), but in order to learn all the skills they needed to BE a powerful knight, they had to have an IQ up in the high teens at the absolute minimum. Which, in turn, made them almost 100% successful at things that had nothing to do with being a knight. In short, with the talents divorced from the IQ points, and "buyable" via XP, you could have a normal human being who had all of Conan's talents, and didn't have to be "Einstein the Barbarian" in order to support that.

09-30-2018, 01:03 PM	#55
JLV Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Arizona	Re: IQ rise and talents Yep. That was a main argument against the old rules. Basically, no one thought that a great knight should also be the smartest guy in creation; in fact, most of the better ones were no more than bright, based on our discussion at the time (and some were frighteningly stupid), but in order to learn all the skills they needed to BE a powerful knight, they had to have an IQ up in the high teens at the absolute minimum. Which, in turn, made them almost 100% successful at things that had nothing to do with being a knight. In short, with the talents divorced from the IQ points, and "buyable" via XP, you could have a normal human being who had all of Conan's talents, and didn't have to be "Einstein the Barbarian" in order to support that.