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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Daniel" data-source="post: 9310429" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>That's because it's really easy to make the argument for any type of spellcasting being tied to any one mental stat.</p><p></p><p>Why are wizards traditionally Int based? No particular reason, beyond "something, something spellbooks" and "that's what Gary Gygax decided to name the magic-user stat." Wisdom makes more sense off the cuff since wizard and wisdom are etymologically related words; and it's easy to make the leap to Charisma if your conception of a wizard is informed by spirit-traffickers like Dr Faust and Prospero, or the vast, vast majority of historical occultists.</p><p></p><p>Why are clerics based on Wisdom? Because Gygax settled on "Wisdom" over "Cunning" as the term for the cleric stat. But literature is also full of scholarly, learned priests ("cleric" is even related to the word "clerk," an old term for a scholar or student, a connection that exists precisely because of the close association between the medieval church and universities) and persuasive, charismatic pulpit-preachers ("charismatic" in the modern sense of having a commanding personality, not to be confused with the older, religious sense of the word — gifted/graced/favored (by the Holy Spirit) in Koine Greek — that fits clerics even better!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack Daniel, post: 9310429, member: 694"] That's because it's really easy to make the argument for any type of spellcasting being tied to any one mental stat. Why are wizards traditionally Int based? No particular reason, beyond "something, something spellbooks" and "that's what Gary Gygax decided to name the magic-user stat." Wisdom makes more sense off the cuff since wizard and wisdom are etymologically related words; and it's easy to make the leap to Charisma if your conception of a wizard is informed by spirit-traffickers like Dr Faust and Prospero, or the vast, vast majority of historical occultists. Why are clerics based on Wisdom? Because Gygax settled on "Wisdom" over "Cunning" as the term for the cleric stat. But literature is also full of scholarly, learned priests ("cleric" is even related to the word "clerk," an old term for a scholar or student, a connection that exists precisely because of the close association between the medieval church and universities) and persuasive, charismatic pulpit-preachers ("charismatic" in the modern sense of having a commanding personality, not to be confused with the older, religious sense of the word — gifted/graced/favored (by the Holy Spirit) in Koine Greek — that fits clerics even better!). [/QUOTE]
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