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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2696737" data-attributes="member: 22622">With Dex and Wisdom, they have created associated skills to further define what you listed.  By definition Constitution means pain threshold, endurance and resistance.  There is , however, no, solve puzzle skill nor tactical skill check associated with intelligence, thus my original question still stands, if the creators wanted puzzles to be solved with intelligence checks why not make a separate skill for it.  As for Kamikaze.  Again Why?  I won't list my examples again, but there are many reasons in which the players make decisions for the characters, why not puzzles?  There is certainly nothing stoping a player from working ona  puzzle as his characters would.  And for clarification purposes again I use puzzles as "riddles, puzzles, riddle rooms and mysteries".  Why are you saying that puzzles are a role playing wall? which in actually they can spurn more roleplaying than basic combat would, which takes a 2 minute fight and breaks it out to 30 minutes to an hour real time.I assume in your campaigns the sessions are straight forward as an intelligence check is rolled to figure out the plot?Reading Further along-- The problem becomes is the player playing dungeons and dragons or is the character playing it.  Limiting players options and stopping players from making bad decisions (because his character wouldn't do that) limits the free will of the player to do his character as he wishes.  Giving a player information about whath e notices on the battlefield is one thing but I would never suggest tactical maneuvers or suggest his spell list.</blockquote>

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