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<blockquote data-quote="cbwjm" data-source="post: 7089540" data-attributes="member: 6788732"><p>Those proficiencies I think got folded into survival which was also a wisdom skill. In 2e, religion was based on wisdom probably because that was the cleric's stat. Apparently, clerics also made really good miners in 2e and still would have in 3e since profession was based on wisdom (I think).</p><p></p><p>In 2e, when it comes to perception you have the Rogue's Detect Noise ability and then you have a chance on a d6 to detect a secret door as long as you're actively searching for one; Elves had a bonus to this. I think when 3e rolled around and they decoupled thief skills from the class, turning them from a % check into a skill check, they had to come up with a stat to base it on. Wisdom may very well have been chosen based on the direction sense and weather sense proficiencies from 2e but it could have easily have been due to the designers looking at the skills spot and listen and then crossing off the stats one by one until they were left with wisdom as the one which made the most sense simply because the other 5 stats made less sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cbwjm, post: 7089540, member: 6788732"] Those proficiencies I think got folded into survival which was also a wisdom skill. In 2e, religion was based on wisdom probably because that was the cleric's stat. Apparently, clerics also made really good miners in 2e and still would have in 3e since profession was based on wisdom (I think). In 2e, when it comes to perception you have the Rogue's Detect Noise ability and then you have a chance on a d6 to detect a secret door as long as you're actively searching for one; Elves had a bonus to this. I think when 3e rolled around and they decoupled thief skills from the class, turning them from a % check into a skill check, they had to come up with a stat to base it on. Wisdom may very well have been chosen based on the direction sense and weather sense proficiencies from 2e but it could have easily have been due to the designers looking at the skills spot and listen and then crossing off the stats one by one until they were left with wisdom as the one which made the most sense simply because the other 5 stats made less sense. [/QUOTE]
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