3PP Release Which is more intriguing?

[Micah Sweet]

From A5e's Adventurers' Guide:

Medicine. A character can perform a Medicine check to stabilize a dying creature, treat or diagnose a disease or poison, or determine a cause of death. The most commonly used ability score is Wisdom. A character might use Intelligence to diagnose a rare poison or Constitution to nurse someone through a lengthy and dangerous illness .Specialties: animals, autopsy, diseases, herbalism, poisons.

I like how A5e allows the DM to use the other ability scores for skill checks other than the one typically associated with a particular skill. Out-of-the-box thinking?

In the case of Medicine, int would seem a useful score in many, if not most cases.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

In the case of Medicine, int would seem a useful score in many, if not most cases.

yeah, i never understood why medicine was a wisdom skill in o5e (especially since nature and religion were int, meaning it obviously wasn't a niche protection thing).

 

[Micah Sweet]

yeah, i never understood why medicine was a wisdom skill in o5e (especially since nature and religion were int, meaning it obviously wasn't a niche protection thing).

Nor I. To me the skill seems deeply informed by knowledge.

 

[PJ Coffey]

Nor I. To me the skill seems deeply informed by knowledge.

Well a chimp would have a higher Wisdom than most commoners and would, untrained, have a better Wisdom (medicine) check.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Well a chimp would have a higher Wisdom than most commoners and would, untrained, have a better Wisdom (medicine) check.

Which is weird to me.

 

[PJ Coffey]

Which is weird to me.

It would make me think that perhaps Intelligence might be better fit for Medicine, so either our understanding of Medicine is deficient or our understanding of Wisdom is deficient or something else.

 

[foxblade]

field and folk medicine I can buy for Wisdom (or at least I understand why people writing in fantasy settings would think that).

 

[foxblade]

what I've never understood is Insight under Intelligence and not Wisdom. Academic book-learning rarely helps with reading people. Move that to Wis and Medicine to Int. Done and Done

 

[W'rkncacnter]

what I've never understood is Insight under Intelligence and not Wisdom.

i--what? insight in o5e (and most commonly in a5e) is wisdom.

 

[foxblade]

i--what? insight in o5e (and most commonly in a5e) is wisdom.

whoops, my brain glitched and it swapped investigation (different "I" word)