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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6716469" data-attributes="member: 6701872">No. It's uncommon for a spell caster that relies on concentration spells (a subset of the spells in the game) to not have considered Constitution a high priority.Wizards that don't emphasize Consitution and also don't emphasize use of concentration spells are the norm, in my experience, but of those that do focus their spell casting in the direction of concentration spells, well, Con usually gives them more &quot;oomph&quot; than their Int score could manage.How prior editions worked doesn't matter. Period.If you aren't basing your evaluation of how to build a character that works for what you want it to do on how 5th edition actually works, how can you expect to have a 5th edition character that works for what you want it to do?In 5th edition, Constitution is more important to effective concentration spell use than Intelligence is in many cases, and the cases that it isn't it is equally important to Intelligence (including times when neither of them matter that much because you have cast a spell like detect magic that requires concentration but isn't much of a disappointment to lose concentration on, and which is completely unaffected by Intelligence).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6716469, member: 6701872"] No. It's uncommon for a spell caster that relies on concentration spells (a subset of the spells in the game) to not have considered Constitution a high priority. Wizards that don't emphasize Consitution and also don't emphasize use of concentration spells are the norm, in my experience, but of those that do focus their spell casting in the direction of concentration spells, well, Con usually gives them more "oomph" than their Int score could manage. How prior editions worked [I]doesn't matter[/I]. Period. If you aren't basing your evaluation of how to build a character that works for what you want it to do on how 5th edition actually works, how can you expect to have a 5th edition character that works for what you want it to do? In 5th edition, Constitution is more important to effective concentration spell use than Intelligence is in many cases, and the cases that it isn't it is equally important to Intelligence (including times when neither of them matter that much because you have cast a spell like detect magic that requires concentration but isn't much of a disappointment to lose concentration on, and which is completely unaffected by Intelligence). [/QUOTE]

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