I’m dumber faster

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    10 months ago

    * Puts on headband of intellect *

    Uhm, actually recalling and learning from personal experience is WIS and not INT.

    * Pushes glasses up the bridge of my nose *

    Really now, it’s this misconception that is really hurting the game. I will now go on a rant about how my interpretation of the stats is correct despite it being fairly ambiguous and confusing.

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      10 months ago

      Umm… actually recalling information is INT.

      The first line under “intelligence” in the PHB is:

      “An Intelligence check comes into play when you need to draw on logic, education, memory, or deductive reasoning.”

      Hell, even the keen mind feat, which gives you perfect memory for a month, gives you INT.

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        10 months ago

        I know people like to “well actually” me after every single comic I post here, but give me at least a little credit…

        I do take 5 minutes to check the rules before I spend multiple hours drawing a joke about them.

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          10 months ago

          Okay, sorry about that. I was making a joke about things and yeah, it didn’t read as well as I thought it would in my head.

  • stingpie@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    When playing overly smart characters I tend go less for loquaciousness and more for confusing amounts of double entendré. Like how a temple might be incensed if I gave them the wrong perfume.

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      10 months ago

      That’s what I do with my gnome wizard… after all, the PHB explicitly says “gnomes love puns”