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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 8965394" data-attributes="member: 7028554">Unless you only play one system, it seems like the answer would have to really vary by game, right? For example, Shadowrun 5th ed. has four Mental Attributes: Willpower, Logic, Intuition, and Charisma. Only one more than in D&D, but kind of a lot to keep track of if you're trying to map your RP to stats.Blades in the Dark, on the hand, only has three Attributes total, two of which (Insight and Resolve) might be considered mental. But in Blades the only purpose for Attributes is to help you resist consequences (getting tricked, ambushed, outplayed at cards, etc. in this context), and your Attribute is based on the number of related skills (called Actions in the rules) you have at least one point in. In other words, your Insight Attribute isn't really a measure of how smart or educated you are, but how good you are at avoiding or overcoming a wide range of problems that aren't physical or social. Plus, your Insight and/or Resolve are likely to go up relatively quickly during a campaign, so is that you really getting noticeably smarter, or just more experienced as a criminal who's been through different kinds of hard times?</blockquote>