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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7738427" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Except that wearing a blue shirt has nothing to do with Abilities.Some editions are more honest about the arbitrary nature of Abilities than others. They’re always arbitrary, but some editions try to pretend they make sense and others don’t.It doesn’t really make any less sense than intelligence being a magic stat. Or Wisdom. Or hell, Dexterity if you want to go Avatar the Last Airbebder with it. And it makes a lot more sense than Wisdom being both the “see things good” and the “do first aid good” stat, considering the fact that unlike magic those are both real life traits that in real life have nothing to do with each other.But he has the potential for sorcerous magic that he has not fulfilled. As evidenced by the fact that he has high Charisma and high Charisma is what makes one good at being a Sorcerer. Like... My partner’s dad had <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ing amazing artistic talent, but he worked as a carpenter all his life. If he had become a painter, he probably could have been great at it. But he didn’t. Unfulfilled potential.Are you intentionally ignoring the words “inherent” and “learned” or is your reading comprehension actually failing you? A sorcerer is born with magic. A wizard is not, and learns it through study. Charisma is what makes a sorcerer better at magic. Ergo, in the fictional world implied by these setting assumptions, Charisma equates to inherent magical potential. Those who do not have such potential, or who have it but fail to tap into it, can potentially learn magic anyway, through hard work and study, in which case Intelligence is what makes them better at this learned form of magic.</blockquote>

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