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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 6652424" data-attributes="member: 58172">What the three mental abilities represent is necessary for understanding how psionics relates to them: Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.The six abilities enjoy a tradition that goes back to origins of D&amp;D. Unfortunately, they lack consistent definitions and are largely meaningless.Concerning the mental abilities, one confounding is coupling Perception and Will power under the banner of having ‘Wisdom’. For example, since some animals have heightened senses of hearing and smell, compared to a Human, they are often described as being ‘wiser’ than a Human is. For example, the 5e Monster Manual stats a Deer as a mental giant, a genius with a Wisdom 14 on average. The point is to convey a relatively high Passive Perception mechanic. But as Wisdom, it defines a Deer as a tower of iron will and a mystic luminary. The Wisdom ability becomes absurd, lacking any salient meaning. Other creatures have good senses of hearing and smell. But a Human as an extremely sense of sight. With nightvision in black and white, dayvision in a multicolor spectrum, and excellent depth perception, the Human has one of the most powerful senses on this planet. A Human can notice (and understand) what most animals cannot. Yet the Human lacks a Wisdom boost for this excellent sense of sight. Wisdom lacks any consistent definition. The damage is already done, and the lack of clear definitions has consequences already in motion.The following is an attempt to try reconcile and salvage - and distinguish - the meaning and use of each mental ability.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 6652424, member: 58172"] What the three mental abilities represent is necessary for understanding how psionics relates to them: Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. The six abilities enjoy a tradition that goes back to origins of D&D. Unfortunately, they lack consistent definitions and are largely meaningless. Concerning the mental abilities, one confounding is coupling Perception and Will power under the banner of having ‘Wisdom’. For example, since some animals have heightened senses of hearing and smell, compared to a Human, they are often described as being ‘wiser’ than a Human is. For example, the 5e Monster Manual stats a Deer as a mental giant, a genius with a Wisdom 14 on average. The point is to convey a relatively high Passive Perception mechanic. But as Wisdom, it defines a Deer as a tower of iron will and a mystic luminary. The Wisdom ability becomes absurd, lacking any salient meaning. Other creatures have good senses of hearing and smell. But a Human as an extremely sense of sight. With nightvision in black and white, dayvision in a multicolor spectrum, and excellent depth perception, the Human has one of the most powerful senses on this planet. A Human can notice (and understand) what most animals cannot. Yet the Human lacks a Wisdom boost for this excellent sense of sight. Wisdom lacks any consistent definition. The damage is already done, and the lack of clear definitions has consequences already in motion. The following is an attempt to try reconcile and salvage - and distinguish - the meaning and use of each mental ability. [/QUOTE]

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