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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 8078885" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Improving your Wisdom by +2 will only matter one time in twenty, and it's highly unlikely that you'll be the target of domination twenty times over the course of a campaign after the point where you might seriously consider improving your Wisdom (i.e. after you reach 20 in your primary stat).That example does a good job of highlighting the strong diminishing returns that I'd mentioned. Your primary ability score, and one of a small number of feats, are something that you can use every round of every combat ever, which is why they have such a disproportionate effect. For a bonus to Wisdom checks to be even remotely in the same league, given how few checks you make with it, the bonus would have to be auto-success; but even auto-success on Wisdom checks wouldn't be remotely as strong as +2 to a stat that you use every round of every combat ever. The game simply isn't set up for it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 8078885, member: 6775031"] Improving your Wisdom by +2 will only matter one time in twenty, and it's highly unlikely that you'll be the target of domination [I]twenty times [/I]over the course of a campaign [I]after[/I] the point where you might seriously consider improving your Wisdom (i.e. [I]after[/I] you reach 20 in your primary stat). That example does a good job of highlighting the strong diminishing returns that I'd mentioned. Your primary ability score, and one of a small number of feats, are something that you can use [I]every round of every combat ever[/I], which is why they have such a disproportionate effect. For a bonus to Wisdom checks to be even [I]remotely [/I]in the same league, given how few checks you make with it, the bonus would have to be auto-success; but even auto-success on Wisdom checks wouldn't be remotely as strong as +2 to a stat that you use [I]every round of every combat ever[/I]. The game simply isn't set up for it. [/QUOTE]

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