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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8730066" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Illusion spells are usually saved against with Wis because it represents your alacrity. After failing the initial save against an illusion, seeing through it is generally an Int (Investigation) check because that represents your deductive reasoning ability. Basically, you can avoid falling for the illusion in the first place by being keen enough to notice something about it that gives away that it’s not real. If you miss that, you have to use your reasoning skills to figure out that it can’t be real.There is a logic behind what scores are used for what saves, but following that logic requires ignoring the names of the abilities and focusing on how the Using Abilities section describes what they actually do.The odd one out is Charisma being used to save against forced teleportation/planar transportation. The only reason I can figure out for that is that it didn’t obviously fit under any of the abilities, and Charisma saves were the least-used type of save.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8730066, member: 6779196"] Illusion spells are usually saved against with Wis because it represents your alacrity. After failing the initial save against an illusion, seeing through it is generally an Int (Investigation) check because that represents your deductive reasoning ability. Basically, you can avoid falling for the illusion in the first place by being keen enough to notice something about it that gives away that it’s not real. If you miss that, you have to use your reasoning skills to figure out that it can’t be real. There is a logic behind what scores are used for what saves, but following that logic requires ignoring the names of the abilities and focusing on how the Using Abilities section describes what they actually do. The odd one out is Charisma being used to save against forced teleportation/planar transportation. The only reason I can figure out for that is that it didn’t obviously fit under any of the abilities, and Charisma saves were the least-used type of save. [/QUOTE]

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