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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sinmissing" data-source="post: 1802321" data-attributes="member: 1960">EDIT: I completely forgot that INT gives you bonus languages as well!Knowledge skills aren't the only INT based skills you know.  Disable Device is a very important INT based skill, one which isn't usually dumped by the non-spellcasting Rogues.I see your argument used often Rodrigo, but the d20 system is already heavy weighed toward combat efficiency, that means STR, DEX, and CON for the most part, so any argument that states Fighters or Non-Wizards would dump a non combat related stat must be taken with a grain of salt.While it would be nice for all attributes to be equally valuable, this is not the case, which is evident in the 1/2 orc and the guidelines for making new races in the DMG.  Frankly, I'm not sure it is even possible to balance the attributes out in the current evolution of d20.  I do like your idea for CHA and APs as a way of shoring up the attribute.As far as RP low INT.  I also see relatively few gamers doing so, which is why I use the HarnMaster concept that INT for a Player Character is a measure of Memory and Education, not raw Intelligence.  NPCs on the other hand use INT for overall Intelligence.</blockquote>