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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8765193" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I understand what you mean and agree to a certain extent... but I also think that most people and characters tend to lean into their strengths. A person's nature is such that (and D&D mechanics tend to highlight this) if you are good at something, you tend to focus on it to be even better. Rogues take Expertise in their best skills so that they can be the best of the best. A warrior who focuses on a specific weapon tends to go all-in on boosting their abilities they get when using that weapon. (Until specific racial mods got removed in recent books) characters that were of a certain race oftentimes took classes for whom the racial modifier bonus boosted the score they were going to be using for that class. And even just normal characters more often that not will take proficiency in skills that match their primary ability score so their total bonus can be higher.</p><p></p><p>So even just thinking about this narratively... if you are really smart but uncharismatic, will you spend all your time studying a magic to which you are unused to being or unsuited for? I agree that it does make sense from a certain point of view to use magic to compensate for your lack of ability... but we're talking wizards that are spending countless months and years trying to learn magic and more importantly <em>specifically focus</em> on a certain type of magic... and for it to be one where you have no natural inclination or skill seems to be an uphill battle that most wizards I don't know would undertake.</p><p></p><p>After all... if you were the most popular and charismatic kid in magic school, what is more likely? Playing into it and getting even more popular... or going off to the basement with all the goth kids to study necromancy? I'm sure there would be some kids that would in fact do that... but I don't think that would be the norm. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>And at the end of the day it doesn't really matter either way, cause I don't think WotC would ever make this change regardless, LOL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8765193, member: 7006"] I understand what you mean and agree to a certain extent... but I also think that most people and characters tend to lean into their strengths. A person's nature is such that (and D&D mechanics tend to highlight this) if you are good at something, you tend to focus on it to be even better. Rogues take Expertise in their best skills so that they can be the best of the best. A warrior who focuses on a specific weapon tends to go all-in on boosting their abilities they get when using that weapon. (Until specific racial mods got removed in recent books) characters that were of a certain race oftentimes took classes for whom the racial modifier bonus boosted the score they were going to be using for that class. And even just normal characters more often that not will take proficiency in skills that match their primary ability score so their total bonus can be higher. So even just thinking about this narratively... if you are really smart but uncharismatic, will you spend all your time studying a magic to which you are unused to being or unsuited for? I agree that it does make sense from a certain point of view to use magic to compensate for your lack of ability... but we're talking wizards that are spending countless months and years trying to learn magic and more importantly [I]specifically focus[/I] on a certain type of magic... and for it to be one where you have no natural inclination or skill seems to be an uphill battle that most wizards I don't know would undertake. After all... if you were the most popular and charismatic kid in magic school, what is more likely? Playing into it and getting even more popular... or going off to the basement with all the goth kids to study necromancy? I'm sure there would be some kids that would in fact do that... but I don't think that would be the norm. :) And at the end of the day it doesn't really matter either way, cause I don't think WotC would ever make this change regardless, LOL. [/QUOTE]
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