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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6865854" data-attributes="member: 6777454">It seems to me that if what you want to make is a priest who is primarily about giving speeches and winning people over by force of personality alone, what you really should be making is a Bard who specializes in the Religion skill. I think it would be a pretty solid fit for this preacher concept as most of such an individuals power is based around performance. I know it can be difficult to think of broadening the Bard concept in such a way as the class is perhaps a little too tied to the picture of the wandering minstrel, but if one widens their mind a bit I think it would work.A wisdom based caster strikes me as being one who is naturally attune to the energies in the universe and has an innate passive understanding of the way things work. In touch with the spirits, the way people and things generally work.I think perhaps the problem is the two-meanings of willpower. When it comes to Wisdom, willpower would be your ability to remain on your own path and kind of pick up on signs of deception in order to avoid it. When it comes to Charisma, that sort of willpower is being able to get people to do what you like, even if against their own desires.One is defensive and one is offensive, but I think you can see how they work out.In fact, maybe you can line up the mental stats and the physical stats.Strength & Charisma - Ability to apply pressure to others.Dexterity & Intelligence - Ability to avoid situations or find your way into an advantageous one to apply pressure correctly.Constitution & Wisdom - Ability to resist pressures being placed upon you and to endure longer in order to apply pressure to others.Although this model does in fact show that perhaps Wisdom is a poor choice when it comes to what ability one should be drawing upon for the strength of their spells. After all, there is no class that allows you to use Constitution offensively in order to cause damage.If there were a MAD casting class that uses spell points, I think Charisma would be used for the power of the spells, Intelligence would be used for your ability to hit correctly with the spells and Wisdom would be used for how many points you get....</blockquote>

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