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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7831219" data-attributes="member: 58172">Yeah. Perception can anticipate danger.But also in the sense of the five senses, Perception can recognize the meaning of, and respond more quickly to, subtle movements.In a game of guns, ‘reaction time’ is meaningless. The goal is to avoid ever entering a location where a bullet might be traveling. So, intelligent and perceptive anticipation of danger is more important for gun scenes.Charisma can help with building rapport and establishing trust.However, whether the deception itself is convincing or not relies exclusively on Intelligence.The best deceivers are the ones who know their stuff, and can pull it off. This is necessarily true when trying to pass off a replica as an original. The creator of the replica has to know everything that an expert would look for. But it also applies abstractly, like an accountant creating a convincing investment fraud. Intelligence-Perception is everything. To be a competent liar requires being able to keep track of the lies that one is telling, whence Intelligence, and know how and when to present a lie, whence reasoning.The same skillsets that discover a fraud, are the same skillsets that create a fraud.Deception can also be used to create a convincing disguise, in the sense of a replica, like a fake nose or so on. Here too, Intelligence-Perception is everything.It is important to get Strength-Constitution right.So far, my rationale is:A high investment allows the existence of Large characters.Brute force, like bending bars, can be useful and flavorful.Carrying is occasionally useful for carrying other characters.Most importantly, Strength-Constitution = hit points. Players are loath to ever dump this.Strength might need some oomph, but hit points are a big big deal.I am more iffy about stealth, but Intelligence-Perception is often the more necessary ability.For example. Your character crosses a lake under the cover of night and fog. Reaching shore, the character camouflages the boat with nearby shrubs to hide it from any onlookers. This is all about perception.Similarly, the same locations that Stealth selects to avoid attracting attention − whether in shadows or in a crowd − are the same locations where a bodyguard would routinely scan to detect any intruders.Camouflaging a boat would require perceptive IntelligenceWalking on dry leaves silently might require athletic Dexterity − but it might require perception to discern the quieter patch of leaves.The Stealth skill, if proficient, might apply to either.</blockquote>

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