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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5389711" data-attributes="member: 1165">IMO, each mental stat refers to, well, many things.Intelligence would refer to both book smarts and street smarts. A character with a very high Int score has loads of both. On the other hand, you might have a character who is brilliant but has a short attention span; his Int is high, but not that high. Or you might have an absent-minded professor-type wizard who is greatly respected in the halls of academia but could be easily outmaneuvered by rivals in her mage tower; she has high Int but it's not sky-high.Wisdom is pretty hard to define. I don't know why empty and perception fall under the same statl as hard to influence.Charisma is a factor of at least three things: confidence, looks and voice. Probably a lot more. A person with a very low Charisma probably doesn't have any of the three. On the other hand, there might be someone who has a &quot;magic voice&quot; and does a good job selling stuff over the phone, but their face was scarred by a childhood illness -- moderate Charisma.Intimidate is a multi-faceted skill, and it's hard to put a stat to it. Some people will get in your face, swinging their meaty fists an inch from your nose. Another character might put on a dextrous blade display, or just hold a dagger &quot;too steadily&quot; near you. Still another might threaten your family, proclaiming if you cross them your business will be burned to the ground, etc, and make you believe it. And others just bruise your self esteem, causing a surge of stress hormones with nowhere to go as they barrage you with shouts, insult your intelligence, etc (something a bad boss might do). Intimidate is practically impossible to attach to a statistic; WotC basically &quot;defaulted&quot; it to Charisma.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 5389711, member: 1165"] IMO, each mental stat refers to, well, many things. Intelligence would refer to both book smarts and street smarts. A character with a very high Int score has loads of both. On the other hand, you might have a character who is brilliant but has a short attention span; his Int is high, but not [i]that[/i] high. Or you might have an absent-minded professor-type wizard who is greatly respected in the halls of academia but could be easily outmaneuvered by rivals in her mage tower; she has high Int but it's not sky-high. Wisdom is pretty hard to define. I don't know why empty and perception fall under the same statl as hard to influence. Charisma is a factor of at least three things: confidence, looks and voice. Probably a lot more. A person with a very low Charisma probably doesn't have any of the three. On the other hand, there might be someone who has a "magic voice" and does a good job selling stuff over the phone, but their face was scarred by a childhood illness -- moderate Charisma. Intimidate is a multi-faceted skill, and it's hard to put a stat to it. Some people will get in your face, swinging their meaty fists an inch from your nose. Another character might put on a dextrous blade display, or just hold a dagger "too steadily" near you. Still another might threaten your family, proclaiming if you cross them your business will be burned to the ground, etc, [i]and make you believe it.[/i] And others just bruise your self esteem, causing a surge of stress hormones with nowhere to go as they barrage you with shouts, insult your intelligence, etc (something a bad boss might do). Intimidate is practically impossible to attach to a statistic; WotC basically "defaulted" it to Charisma. [/QUOTE]

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