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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 6782735" data-attributes="member: 205">Here's my take.  Planning and strategizing are fundamental aspects of the game.  Having a low-Int character shouldn't preclude you from enjoying that part of the game.  (Note: I'm aware this not universally agreed upon.  I know many players who believe this to be a necessary drawback to not dumping Int.)  My personal interpretation is that strategizing is not definitively an Intelligence-based trait, but can be role-played using any mental stat.A high-Wisdom character, for example, can be interpreted as extremely observant and/or extremely intuitive, or perhaps making leaps of faith into the right strategy.  Divine insight as a rationale also works well for characters with divine powers.  Likewise, high-Charisma characters are almost always heavily magical, so their strategy might be the result of some latent divination, or their Charisma might be the result of being natural leaders and having the natural ability to devise plans that utilize their "followers" and compatriots to the best of their abilities.  (I often like to view high Charisma as having a high emotional intelligence, which corresponds with this view.)Basically, stats can be very fungible, and I like to use the character's stats as a framework to deliver the strategy into the fiction.</blockquote>