Assumptions on High School and College Skill Levels

[Ulzgoroth]

If you have problems with the too-steep differentiation of 'you have a point or you don't' for a class-full of high school students, use Dabbler perks. A half or quarter point can make a big difference between somebody pulling off a passable grade in a class and someone not even taking it.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Note that one of the criteria is that, as people raise in education, their IQ increases as well. At least, in the Templates I've seen. (Probably a "chicken-and-egg" thing. If someone doesn't have an IQ of X, they probably wouldn't have gotten a degree of level Y.)

That's not too surprising for templates, because a template that really uses a college education is likely going to be of the know-it-all type. Adventuring nerds usually lean to the omnidisciplinary.

A highly skilled chemical engineer would certainly have a college degree, but might only have a couple highly developed IQ skills and an average IQ. It's just that that character is less likely to turn up as a PC than someone who can also handle three other kinds of engineering, repair a car, and program a computer.

Education can justify an elevated IQ, but neither mandates the other.