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I think the expectation in RPGs that individual players are the ones who get to play their particular characters is pretty much...

Care to place your bets on how long before this thread devolves into edition warring?

Yeah, I don't ever enjoy that. If it got to that point I think I'd rather just ask the GM to just narrate the outcome. Right. Which...

The only difference between a genius with 18 Int and a genius with 5 Int is the result. :)

Exactly!

Your character's Wisdom is too low to perceive the setting. Everything looks, sounds, and feels like a fuzzy grey blob. What do you do?

I think this is an interesting hypothesis, but the posters most AGAINST « stats being there just for rolls » are ALSO the most...

I think you are combining two very different things. I believe there are two different categories of "come up with a solution" to a...

"I noticed as a kid that when falling out of trees, my friends tended to go unconscious a lot, and sometimes die, but it didn't affect...

Me, too! That's exactly how I might roleplay a low-Wisdom character. Which might seem contradictory, but I'm not against roleplaying...

I was thinking the same thing, except...it's quite a bit more nebulous, right? "Rash" is pretty subjective because you can't (unless...

I like the idea of a low-Wis character that warns the party away from threats that don’t exist.

I'm with @TwoSix on this one: you don't have to have "viable alternatives" to enable story elements that you don't think are fun to...

The meaning of Intelligence, Wisdom, and especially Charisma (in this very thread!) are debated the same way. They are abstractions...

The player may not "see" anything. But behind the scenes and out of the players eyes the GM in fairness needs to construct a series of...