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Message: <blockquote data-quote="argo" data-source="post: 1663140" data-attributes="member: 5752">As the ability scores relate to gathering "extra info"...Wisdom is guesswork based on past experience.Intelligence is extrapolation based on observed phenenomena and known physical law.Wisdom is perceptive.  It groups things that are alike and unalike.  It is good at answering questions such as "what is missing?" or "what does not belong here?".  Wis notices when your shirt is on backwards.  Wis notices what is most important first.Inteligence is meticilous.  It considers each individual part and connects the dots.  It is good at answering questions such as "what is that?" followed by "how did it get there?".  Int notices that you have gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe.  Int notices everything even if its importance does not become clear until later.So if you want to give hints to your players you should give Int-boy moments of deductive brilliance such as "you realize he must have been at Tony's resturant because Tony's chief is the only one in the city who makes the tomato sauce that stained his pants."  Meanwhile your Wis-monkey should recieve deep and thoughtfull insights that strike to the heart of the matter, confirming or disproving his suspicions about persons is a good way to go such as "even though he hides it well you are certain Lord Uptight is secretly in love with young Master Bradpit".Remember that Int and Wis may (and probably will) eventually lead to the same place.  They will just take different roads and one may sometimes be faster than the other.Hope that helps.</blockquote>

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