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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Protagonist" data-source="post: 4817796" data-attributes="member: 59006">Hello EnWorld!I'm in the process of homebrewing my own d&d-based system and at the moment I am obsessed with keying initiative checks (and maybe saving throws) to two attributes. 4E already allows to use either Dex or Int for the Reflex defense and this got me thinking.The act of avoiding something in time (or acting first in combat) is of course related to purely physical dexterity, but also has mental components. One of them being awareness of the situation and then adjucating which action would be wise to choose. In d&d terms this looks like Dex + Wis to me, but seing as 4E as chosen to use Int I'm wondering what to use? To be honest, the d&d destinction between wisdom and intelligence has alway been a bit confusion to me.I will probably use  (Dex+Int)/2 für initiative and as  reflex defense, because I plan on combining will and fort defenses into a single resilience stat [ (Con+Wis)/2 ].I think that would simplify things and can easily be justfied seeing as how overcoming fatigue, disease and poison can be argued to have a willpower component and for magical effects it could easily be "handwaved" into making sense (i.e. compulsion effects need to overcome the will first, but even then the body might still be diffictule to control etc.)Having the Non-AC-Defenses as well as initiative represented by both a physical and a mental stat also seems like something that would be good for class balance.So, I could really need your help decidinga) which mental stat I  should pair with dexterityb) whether I am alone thinking that will and fort could be believably folded into one defensec) if the average of phy.stat+ment.stat is a better design choice than always using the higher oned) if the idea of using 2 attributes (be it average, combined value or the highest) for this is attrative at all?</blockquote>

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