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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tectuktitlay" data-source="post: 6861812" data-attributes="member: 82812">What does devotion have to do with wisdom, exactly? The case can be made that often enough, devotion runs counter to wisdom. For there are plenty of times when the wise course of action is one that must be set aside in the name of loyalty, of devotion. Where the love or faith in an ideal gets in the way of soundness of an action, or of good judgment. Also, why is being a conduit of another power at odds with a strong personality? A strong personality will be able to be such a conduit for considerably longer than a weak personality. The latter will burn out much more rapidly, methinks. Moreover, look to countless works of fiction. How often are the conduits of the power of the gods weak of personality, save perhaps in the case of evil gods who actually wish only pawns they can use then dispose of the moment their usefulness is at an end? How often are they instead headstrong individuals? Resolute, but firm in their conviction, confident of each course of action they take? That conviction quite often being a touching stone for those around them to look to, to rally around? As far as being a conduit for such power, fortitude and endurance would be more apropos. Constitution would more accurately represent the ability to channel such immense power. Or the mental equivalent of Constitution: Willpower. And I am not so sure either Wisdom or Charisma actually covers Willpower. Willpower is its own thing, and one often separate from either force of personality, or wise course of action. Many headstrong, willful people, are terrible with others. Many more are willful in such manner that they take profoundly foolish actions, not wise ones. Their stubbornness, that mental fortitude, that strength of will, can get them into deep trouble, and reveal them to be quite foolish, even when their heart is in the right place. All of this continues to point to a stats for spellcasting being the best solution, in all likelihood. One that allows the greatest number of viable archetypes to exist within the same mechanical framework, to exist within the same game world and have it make sense.</blockquote>

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