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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5099916" data-attributes="member: 15651">Wisdom to me has always been common sense and intuition.  There are people who are book smart (high INT); they can recite a litany of facts, but they just don't get how the world actually works.  High wisdom is the opposite, they may not be good at balancing their checkbook, but they intuitively get how things work, or how they should work.  Willpower usually gets dropped into Wisdom because it just tends to be a better fit than INT; peple know intellectually that smoking is bad for you, but they still do, so it isn't a matter of INT, therfore WIS makes more sense.  As for perception, I disagree, especially when it comes to illusions.  A high WIS would allow somebody to have that feeling that something doesn't feel right, without being able to say exactly what that is.  That could mean that feeling that somebody is watching you, or that the illusionary wall just somehow seems wrong.  If an illusion perception were INT based, then to me it should become a check between the caster's and your INT for their ability to create a perfect illusion and you to notice the flaws.  By making it WIS based, the spell is assumed to be perfect by all intellectual means, but that niggling little voice says something doesn't add up, and it has to overrule your physical senses that are telling you it is really there.</blockquote>