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I'm glad you said it for me. Celebrim - Dogmatism and wisdom are absolutely at odds with one another in virtually all forms of philosophy. Achieving wisdom requires frequently challenging authority and your own pre-conceived notions about reality, while dogmatism is about precisely the...

Except you really haven't. And, no, your defensiveness is not rational.

Charisma is not really "ability to interact with others", it just bleeds into that. Fundamentally, it's about force of will and having a commanding presence. This is why it makes more sense for clerics.

No it isn't, you just chose to interpret it that way and react accordingly, presumably out of defensiveness. I made no arguments concerning the validity of real world religion. My argument was simply that wisdom and piety are not intrinsically connected the way D&D assumes they are within the...

Yes, but the archetypal "holy person" is not really what the cleric class represents in D&D. They represent something more akin to crusader priests.

False. You can easily infer that one's ability to effectively proselytize is the most likely factor in determining how much power a god is willing to entrust them with. This is exactly why Charisma (generally) makes more sense than Wisdom, though it's certainly possible there would be some...

These are all the same reasons I think it should be Charisma as well, even if I didn't articulate that well.

Thanks for your detailed, if condescending, explanation of the abstract nature of D&D's ability scores even if I already well understood it. I have to say that I still disagree with you (and many of the above posters who echoed your sentiment), and here's why: Regardless of whether gods are...

I've had a lot of cognitive dissonance surrounding the way int, wis, and cha are conceptually handled in d&d over the years, and at this point I honestly think a lot of it can be attributed to the fact that clerics use Wisdom for their spellcasting mechanic, when that frankly attaches baggage to...

On the one hand, I prefer that classes be kept as broad as possible and incorporate other concepts for diversity like background and subclasses. On the other hand, if the concept of "class" was really that broad we wouldn't have rangers, paladins, druids, bards, and warlocks as full classes. So...

Well, I'll answer anyway - because I'm from rural East Texas, where it describes about 60% of the population. Of course, I don't still live there, so it doesn't happen as much as it used to.

I've been thinking about this off and on for a while now. The 4th attack fighters get as their level 20 ability just doesn't sit well with me for a few reasons - mostly that it's twice what other characters get and just feels unrealistic (and yes, I realize other classes have things that...

Edited my post above in case you didn't see it. A lot of the changes made to 5e were actually pro-balance changes, such as striving to narrow the utility gap between non-casters and casters. What can happen is that you focus on balance so much that it bogs down the gameplay, and that definitely...

I would not call that "conceding defeat". I walk away from arguments with creationists all the time. Does that make me wrong? It's more like acquiescing that there's no way to make the other person see reason. I mean, maybe you're right if we assume WotC cares absolutely nothing about their...

You're actually arguing that it's totally okay for WotC to spend years writing elaborate rules for their game, then publish that game for purchase with horribly imbalanced rules, as long as they don't tell us it's balanced and try to prevent players from rewriting them for their games? I mean...

Here's one issue I have with this - one character tends to carry the party during non-combat engagements, and more often than not, it's unnecessary and arguably detrimental to have several PCs with the same skillset. This is part of the reason why Int kind of sucks in 5e. Because most of its...

I don't agree that Oberoni doesn't work in 5e. At all. It's still incumbent on WotC to provide a good, well-thought out ruleset, regardless of how much they empower DMs to tweak or adjust. Getting back to ability scores - I never thought that people using Con to attack with made any sense or...

"There's nothing wrong with the rules because the DM can change them." <-- absurd reasoning. #sorrynotsorry. And same thing applies to you that applies to Sacrosanct.

Maybe you should expect people to express opinions on a public forum. Maybe you should also expect people to prefer actual conversation over zealous and misguided attempts to convince them their opinion is wrong based on absurd reasoning, like there's nothing wrong with the rules because the DM...

The problem is really that nothing fits right, because the game lacks an "awareness" stat. It's half-way incorporated into wisdom along with completely unrelated things like willpower and piety. All 3 of the mental stats are poorly appropriate, IMO. This is a lot of why I think PoE's 6 stats are...