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There's also the issue of a smart player trying to play a dumb character--maybe it's not as difficult as the reverse, but I've already brainstormed a couple of scenarios with my character, Kenichi, where I suddenly realized "No, it wouldn't really make sense for him to do that because he wouldn't have access to that information like I do." That's a problem that always comes up in regards to Meta knowledge, but it also accounts for a person trying to write a character below their own intelligence level--we might have known something for so long, or it might have come so easily to us, that when other people [i]don't[/i] have that level of knowledge we're surprised--"I thought everybody learned that?" The end result, for authors who aren't careful to double-check what they've written, is a character who is [i]supposed[/i] to be dumb somehow either outdoing people smarter than they are, or causing a character who's supposed to be average to have to up their intelligence to genius level, and the genius has to now do tenth dimensional equations in order to keep their title.
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Yeah, I got the intelligence problem a few times when I was writing a fanfiction about a genius and several of his aides. And I somehow caused a huge gap between him and the others in regards of intelligence in order to make his role significant, so I have to play both dumb and smart character at the same time, and have to consider very carefully what they do and what they speak, which is hardcore. I like writing about smart guys who gives their opponents a hard time by just sitting on his desk, but I think, in the end, intelligence is the most difficult stat to be measured, as the course of human mind is extremely complex. That is also why I refrain from making a genius or a total fool in RPing, limiting him to only smart or sometimes clueless.