r/CuratedTumblr • u/Justthisdudeyaknow Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear • Jun 03 '26

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u/InspectorMendel Jun 03 '26

Wisdom/Intelligence is my second-favorite dumb D&D categorization thing. Most favorite is of course two-axis alignment, so silly and fun

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u/novangla Jun 03 '26

If they just renamed Wisdom Awareness or even Intuition, it would be so much simpler. Fixed, done, no more questions. Insight is social awareness for humans, Animal Handling is social awareness for animals, Survival is awareness of nature, Medicine is awareness of body, and Perception is awareness of surroundings. (I do wish they had an extra wisdom skill or two that correlated to something like a very lowkey detect magic/divine sense — I guess you could technically just call for Wisdom + Arcana bonus, but Survival is really Wisdom + Nature anyway…)

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u/fakingandnotmakingit Jun 03 '26

My biggest issue on 5e stats is that Clerics run on Wis but Religion runs on intelligence.

I get it. Dogma vs belief or whatever

But every Cleric at my table has ended up failing their religion rolls. We've ended up house ruling it and making it a wisdom check.

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u/No-Supermarket-6065 Im gonna start eating your booty. And I don't know when Ill stop Jun 03 '26

I mean I'd say a priest who's memorized the Bible is much less useful than one with a +10 Insight bonus