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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6857781" data-attributes="member: 6777052">It occurs to me that clerics could make quite good detectives without needing much Int at all. Basically, you ask the gods whodunnit and they tell you.Let's consider what a Knowledge Cleric with an Int of 5 could do.Class FeaturesChannel Divinity: Read Thoughts - useful for interrogating suspects and suggesting they confessVisions of the Past - read murder weapons and scenes of crimeSpellsHold Person - for making arrestsLocate Object - to find the murder weaponZone of Truth - for interrogating suspectsSpeak with Dead - useful if the victim can identify the murdererLocate Creature - find where the culprit is hidingCommune - ask the gods to confirm your suspicions about the perpetratorNone of those relies on Int checks. They all use Wis, one way or another.Sherlock Holmes doesn't strike me as particularly holy, but there are plenty of crime-solving clergymen and monks in fiction. So an Int 5 character with a reasonably high Wisdom score could legitimately be role-played as a highly successful detective in this way too.</blockquote>