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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vorput" data-source="post: 3343257" data-attributes="member: 35874">Yeah, that's what I did with my DM when playing a high intelligence mage... ironically also an alienist... I miss that guy... and his pseudonatural hawk...Granted, he'd only rarely have useful information for me... he'd often just stare at me quizzically and then go "I don't have a 24 intelligence either."Thankfully acid substituted fireballs are the universal intelligent quotient or something.Also shilsen- I've noticed the same thing you described in... pretty much every group I've ever played in- characters functioning as their own autonomous units in battle (for the most part, there are rare exceptions- usually when battle is discussed ahead of time) unless something comes up which forces them to acknowledge their party mates (like the need for healing).It probably has something to do with the fact that most combats in D&D are over in a few rounds, only a couple of seconds (yet somehow they can take hours of time out of game!)- and in that time, people want to do whatever their character is best at- usually something related to combat.  In a campaign with fewer combats, this trait tends to become ever more noticeable (I've noticed). Just stray thoughts.VorpEdit: Oh yeah- how's this for weird... I'm taking a Tolkien and philosophy course- and in the powerpoint discussing Gandalf, there was a picture of him from the movie.  I saw it, and suddenly wondered if Shilsen's story hour had been updated...  Crazy icon picture recognition.</blockquote>

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