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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4068373" data-attributes="member: 50987">Intelligence was already sort-of a dump stat, at least with my gaming group.&nbsp; If someone rolled a bad number when building their character, they would usually stuff it into Intelligence and select &quot;Human&quot; as their race.&nbsp;&nbsp; The human's &quot;+1 Skill Point per level&quot; guaranteed the character would have at least 2 skill points per level.&nbsp; (This wasn't a good idea for Wizards and scholars, obviously, or any character with aspirations of becoming a skill monkey.&nbsp; But for everyone else, low Int was never a big deal.)Well, that was 3rd Edition.&nbsp; I imagine that in 4th Edition, Intelligence will be even less important.&nbsp; It is apparent that skill monkeys won't need it to excel, for example.&nbsp; And since skill bonuses scale with level...there are no more skill ranks to earn and spend...penalties to a skill check will matter less and less with each level-up.I am guessing that Intelligence will be more important to arcane spellcasters, however.&nbsp; I can see it working in much the same way that Dexterity works for archers, or Strength for strikers.&nbsp; It might grant a bonus to the attack roll vs. the target's Will AC, for example, and/or give a couple of points of bonus damage to the spell.I get the feeling that WotC is moving away from trying to prevent dump stats, and are instead trying to fix the game such that any stat can be dumped without ruining the character.&nbsp; I think it is the right way to do it.&nbsp; I, for one, do not like having to have a good score in a particular stat in order to have a playable character.&nbsp; Don't get me wrong, I like having them...I just don't like HAVING to have them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 4068373, member: 50987"] Intelligence was already sort-of a dump stat, at least with my gaming group. If someone rolled a bad number when building their character, they would usually stuff it into Intelligence and select "Human" as their race. The human's "+1 Skill Point per level" guaranteed the character would have at least 2 skill points per level. (This wasn't a good idea for Wizards and scholars, obviously, or any character with aspirations of becoming a skill monkey. But for everyone else, low Int was never a big deal.) Well, that was 3rd Edition. I imagine that in 4th Edition, Intelligence will be even less important. It is apparent that skill monkeys won't need it to excel, for example. And since skill bonuses scale with level...there are no more skill ranks to earn and spend...penalties to a skill check will matter less and less with each level-up. I am guessing that Intelligence will be more important to arcane spellcasters, however. I can see it working in much the same way that Dexterity works for archers, or Strength for strikers. It might grant a bonus to the attack roll vs. the target's Will AC, for example, and/or give a couple of points of bonus damage to the spell. I get the feeling that WotC is moving away from trying to prevent dump stats, and are instead trying to fix the game such that [U]any[/U] stat can be dumped without ruining the character. I think it is the right way to do it. I, for one, do not like having to have a good score in a particular stat in order to have a playable character. Don't get me wrong, I like having them...I just don't like HAVING to have them. [/QUOTE]

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