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<blockquote data-quote="On Puget Sound" data-source="post: 4295112" data-attributes="member: 68988">abilties vs roleplayingThere are thousands of aspects to a human personality (let alone an elven one...) and only SIX abilities.&nbsp; Wisdom covers a whole range of things, from whether you are nearsighted to whether you have the common sense not to begin a fight you can't finish (role-playing; no rules).&nbsp; So the item or feat you want requires a high wisdom, but you want to play a clueless character?&nbsp; Fine.&nbsp; &quot;When I have a task at hand, such as attuning myself to this nifty magical device, I can concentrate and focus wonderfully.&nbsp; And it works well for me in combat too; I don't know why.&nbsp; I think maybe it's sentient and it likes me.&nbsp; I've named it Ollie... Ollie Orb.&nbsp; I talk to it sometimes.&nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; But in matters not related to the orb, I do tend to act in haste rather than taking a moment to think about the wisest course of action.&quot;Just play your character as YOU envision the character.&nbsp; No rule forces you to play wisely because you have high Wisdom, any more than it requires you to throw the dice harder if your STR is 18.&nbsp; Of course, you can't help the fact that you have decent passive senses...but if that really bothers you, you can choose to be so distracted that you spot or hear the problem, but decide it's not important enough to bother anyone about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="On Puget Sound, post: 4295112, member: 68988"] [b]abilties vs roleplaying[/b] There are thousands of aspects to a human personality (let alone an elven one...) and only SIX abilities. Wisdom covers a whole range of things, from whether you are nearsighted to whether you have the common sense not to begin a fight you can't finish (role-playing; no rules). So the item or feat you want requires a high wisdom, but you want to play a clueless character? Fine. "When I have a task at hand, such as attuning myself to this nifty magical device, I can concentrate and focus wonderfully. And it works well for me in combat too; I don't know why. I think maybe it's sentient and it likes me. I've named it Ollie... Ollie Orb. I talk to it sometimes. :D But in matters not related to the orb, I do tend to act in haste rather than taking a moment to think about the wisest course of action." Just play your character as YOU envision the character. No rule forces you to play wisely because you have high Wisdom, any more than it requires you to throw the dice harder if your STR is 18. Of course, you can't help the fact that you have decent passive senses...but if that really bothers you, you can choose to be so distracted that you spot or hear the problem, but decide it's not important enough to bother anyone about. [/QUOTE]

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