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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7629108" data-attributes="member: 996">I mean, if you RP fighting intelligently - using, say, historically proven-effective weapons, armor, techniques, &amp; tactics - your character will likely get killed, or, at least, underperform. /Playing/ intelligently is an entirely different thing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Nod. It's always easier to see modeling effects of STR or DEX in D&amp;D, for some reason (it's not quite as tough a row to hoe in other systems, it seems... not sure why...)....hm... maybe it's because D&amp;D has had mental stats pull double-duty as both defining RL human qualities, /and/ as magic-stats, while other system separate the two?&nbsp; So you have people playing very-high-WIS Clerics, who are only high-WIS for the bonus spells, and don't behave like they're particularly insightful or prudent, at all.&nbsp; By the time d20 added WIS-based skills like 'Sense Motive' it was too late.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7629108, member: 996"] I mean, if you RP fighting intelligently - using, say, historically proven-effective weapons, armor, techniques, & tactics - your character will likely get killed, or, at least, underperform. /Playing/ intelligently is an entirely different thing. ;) Nod. It's always easier to see modeling effects of STR or DEX in D&D, for some reason (it's not quite as tough a row to hoe in other systems, it seems... not sure why...). ...hm... maybe it's because D&D has had mental stats pull double-duty as both defining RL human qualities, /and/ as magic-stats, while other system separate the two? So you have people playing very-high-WIS Clerics, who are only high-WIS for the bonus spells, and don't behave like they're particularly insightful or prudent, at all. By the time d20 added WIS-based skills like 'Sense Motive' it was too late. [/QUOTE]

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