Want to play character with high INT

>Want to play character with high INT
>Not smart IRL

What do?

Use very long, obscure words. Nobody will be able to tell you're faking it.

Give them a low WIS and play them like a ditz who's only smart in their chosen subject.

Give them a legitimate in-universe reason to not be the guy coming up with every solution all the time. For example, they're socially awkward, or they're only hyper-intelligent when it comes to math, battle strategy, and/or spellcasting. Give them erudite hobbies, and also potentially a thesaurus.

Depending on the system, you can also roll your character's stats/skills/whatever instead of coming up with a solution yourself, especially if you're faced with a puzzle or something.

Don't.

if you wis is low act like a absent minded professor. increase you vernacular a bit yeah might be good or just don't act smart.
go for the blue collar bright guy

Would it work if I drew inspiration from the Medic from TF2?

The answer is to ask more questions to your DM.

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Don't worry, if no one else in your group understands how smart people solve problems, you can get by with metagaming and plot armor.

this. also, don't talk in character much, describe what your character does or says unless the specifics are very important. Things like "My character speaks at length about the complexities of the matters at hand" sounds smarter than you actually trying to talk about shit you don't understand. tell your DM that your character is going to write an essay on some esoteric shit, or talk his way out of trouble via some complex legal loopholes or whatever else you're too dumb to walk through yourself. ask him what your character knows that you most certainly don't because you're dumb. write notes, maybe you can fake smart after enough time.

Intelligence scores only mean whatever they mean in the mechanics of the system they're present in, in D&D 3.5e, for example, a high int character:
>can speak more languages
>has a bonus to knowledge skills
>gets more skill points
and has no other effect on how the character interacts with the world, play them any way you like

>Ask questions to the DM
>Discuss solutions to problems with the other players
>Take time to think about what you do

Rollplay hard.

Just say shit that sounds plausible.

For example, if I want to play a character in a sci-fi setting, I don't need to understand how the fucking warp drive works in order to say "Hmm... It appears this drive is undergoing quantum discombobulation. I theorize it will not last much longer."

>Want to play character with high INT
>Not smart IRL

Don't. If you aren't smart enough to play a high INT character, you aren't smart enough to play RPGs in the first place.

>read books as a child
>for the rest of my life, people accuse me of trying to fake being smart for using "big words"
It is so infuriating. I have to actually pause in conversations to try to come up with simpler words so people don't think I'm trying to be pretentious, which is EVEN MORE FUCKING PRETENTIOUS, but it's a secret kind known only to me.

I have a similar problem. Even in casual conversation, I feel the compulsive need both to be as specific and unambiguous as possible with my word choice, but also to be get as much semantic meaning as I can in as few words as possible. (Of course, I still end up extremely long-winded anyway because I don't know when to stop giving information.)

The only real way to accomplish this is to use a broader vocabulary than most people employ on a day-to-day basis.

I mean seriously, you try to come up with a simpler but just as succinct way of saying "self-flagellatory" with all the same meaning and nuance.

Don't do this. This just makes you sound like a tool. Both you and your character.

Think about it. In-setting, would the character be talking like that? If your character is the stuffy professor type, then then answer might be "yes"*, but otherwise probably not. People who aren't 100% autistic generally try to use words that other people can understand. Genuinely smart people generally don't use big words just because they know them; they use big words because they want to communicate things that only those words communicate -- and if they people they're talking to don't understand those words, then that just defeats the point.

*If your character is the stuffy professor type, then there's going to be a lot more involved in the roleplaying of that character than "sounding smart" anyway.

>Muh elite speshul club

But... that would be the smart thing to do!

Gather information. Ask the GM if you can roll to know about things, or even roll to know if there's a weakness or something exploitable about something. Its lame, but as a GM I dont mind stupid people playing smart characters getting all their smart ideas directly from my playbook. Honestly, as boring as it can be (you're basically a non-entity to the DM) its useful because it can help the DM feed the party useful information.

How stupid are you?

Anyone can observe the situation and come up with a sound plan, don’t need to draw up blueprints every time you guys fight goblins.

>In-setting, would the character be talking like that?
I think the assumption is that, in a sci-fi universe it might be a common knowledge enough as to everyone at least would get an idea of what is going on, like saying "carburetor is clogged up" about modern tech. Or you know, some specialists just take universal rudimentary knowledge of their area expertize for granted. Like how IT savvy guys would just in all innocence blurt out about how south bridge on you motherboard is toast, when you ask why monitor is black and PC don't beep like it usually do.
So nothing is really wrong with that i think.

If the other players are actually smart, have them help you. It's fun to have a smart player with a dumb character help a dumb player with a smart character by making explaining their plan OOC then making a simple statement IC that inspires the other character to come up with that plan. If your DM doesn't allow this, come to the next session with a jug of kerosene then light yourself on fire in front of everyone.

Fair enough, but if you're coming up with stuff on the spot it's probably just going to sound retarded.

>want to play character with high STR
>barbarian
>weak and not creative IRL

what do??

Wrestle preschoolers to get into character

You could be autistically smart.
Maybe.
Anything you're autistically obsessed over?

Ahhh the return of the whyboner.
WITH A VENGEANCE.

Say how you think it should work before you roll. If you pass the roll that is how it works in the setting

Being unable to communicate normally is not really a sign of intelligence.

That is only really tangenitally related to the thing you linked to?

Being so smart that brainlets can't understand you is a common trope.

>people accuse me of trying to fake being smart for using "big words"
>rambling

Good communicators use words which their audience will understand, and whose presence does not distract from their message.

"Smart" in conversation doesn't mean rambling and packing 4-dollar words into every sentence. It means being clear, concise, knowing what your objective is, and getting it done efficiently.

>post doesn't say he considers himself smart, just uses big words and is upset people bother him for faking being smart
>go on to tell him that he's faking being smart
why, Veeky Forums, why.

You can't fake being smarter than you are, despite what some people in this thread claims. You'd have to be seriously dumb to think you can.

All the good posters left long ago.
People nowadays can't read and just want to shitpost.

I did something autistic to help cover this up for the longest time
>be me
>loved reading all my life, read the LOTR trilogy by the time I was 13
>literal autism incarnate
>be from the south
>eventually realize that talking about classical literature and fantasy shit would get me beat up
>fast forward 8 years
>working in coffee shop
>pretty good money, lots divested, gramps willed me a few bitcoins ages ago, so kinda just do it for fun
>figure out how to interact better with people
>act like a dumb redneck, let my hick accent show often enough that people feel good about themselves
>accidentally slip up one day, someone was talking about the Simarillion saying morgoth ate the Trees
>"um no actually boss man, he only wounded them, it was Ungolianth who drank from the trees"
>mfw 2 years of character immersion destroyed by my unbridled autism

>post doesn't say user is faking intelligence, just that being pedantic doesn't equal intelligence
>goes on to tell him that he's accusing user of insincerity
why

user, if that was the point of the post, you wouldn't have linked it.

I have a similar problem. I don't use big fancy words, I just say normal fucking vocabulary words, and my parents think it's impressive. I'm 25 years old and my mom is amazed when I use words like "respectable" or "vocabulary"

She's not stupid, mind you, neither is my father, I don't understand how they think simple words are impressive

You sound insecure as fuck.

There's a difference between just being okay with making shit up (In a roleplaying game.) and "hurr, using big words mak me smart =D".

If you think making up some sci-fi terminology in order for you character to sound like he understands what's going on makes him a fucking tool, then you're an autist with a stick crammed up your ass. I legitimately makes me angry with you that you're such a sour prick that that's genuinely how you feel.

Congratulations, user. You are the lowest common denominator.

Believe in yourself :)

Veeky Forums wouldnt have any stories at all if this were true.

"Looks like the novatrunions are discombombulated. I don't think they'll last much longer."