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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xeviat" data-source="post: 9475762" data-attributes="member: 57494">My wife loves playing charisma casters and her Warlock (Half-Elf noble, quit wizard studies and went to the woods to make a pact with a fey instead) was her most recent character. She says she wouldn't have wanted to play an Int Warlock.Choice of stat, like A5E, is beating Int, and Cha is beating them both. So while I KNOW* I'm right, it seems Cha is far more preferred.As to the linguistics discussion, I'm reminded of Birds, Fish, and phylogeny. You can't make a monophyletic group containing turtles, lizards, snakes, tuataras, and crocodiles that doesn't include birds, so if Reptile is a group then birds are Reptiles. Is that helpful in every day life? Not really, but science doesn't care.Similarly, you can't make a monophyletic group that contains sharks and fish without including all tetrapods (like humans). So sharks can't be fish. But, lobefinned fish and boney fish can't be grouped together without including tetrapods as well. But "fish" is a useful term, so it won't go away either.Finally, hotdogs, hamburgers, tacos, and burritos are phylogastronomically "sandwiches", but "sandwich" tends to refer to a kind of sandwich. But even things that are called sandwiches stretch the term (subs/heros/grinders are served on split or halved rolls, like hotdogs; the Whopper sandwich and chicken sandwich are served on round halved rolls, and flatbread sandwiches are a whole nother thing).Just like "vegetable" and "fruit" have connotations that defy classification (squash, tomatoes, chilis, and others are botanically fruits but culinary vegetables), words are weird.</blockquote>

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