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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9723888" data-attributes="member: 18">I think there's a real difference between&quot;Corvid people are just more intelligent than other species!&quot;And&quot;&quot;Corvid people have photographic memory and thus a player may ask the DM to describe things that the PC saw/heard previously&quot;Or&quot;Corvid people have generational knowledge. Once per rest a Corvid person may roll as if they were Proficient with a Skill they do not have&quot;The first is both wishy washy and vague and I would say is the bad kind of bioessentialism and also not very interesting whereas the latter two are both biological and mental but not fundamentally different to all eladrin being able to Blink or all dwarves having Darkvision or the like.Edit - Further all players are humans and of human intelligence so I think superhuman intellectual abilities are better rendered as specific superhuman traits than generalized stat bonuses or the like, because it makes them a hell of a lot easier to use in play and also easier to roleplay (with the side bonus of avoiding grosser bits of bioessentialism).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9723888, member: 18"] I think there's a real difference between "Corvid people are just more intelligent than other species!" And ""Corvid people have photographic memory and thus a player may ask the DM to describe things that the PC saw/heard previously" Or "Corvid people have generational knowledge. Once per rest a Corvid person may roll as if they were Proficient with a Skill they do not have" The first is both wishy washy and vague and I would say is the bad kind of bioessentialism and also not very interesting whereas the latter two are both biological and mental but not fundamentally different to all eladrin being able to Blink or all dwarves having Darkvision or the like. Edit - Further all players are humans and of human intelligence so I think superhuman intellectual abilities are better rendered as specific superhuman traits than generalized stat bonuses or the like, because it makes them a hell of a lot easier to use in play and also easier to roleplay (with the side bonus of avoiding grosser bits of bioessentialism). [/QUOTE]

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