Intelligence is book smarts.
Wisdom is common sense.
Simple. Or at least, that's always how I've been taught / read it.
"My talent's for lying. For sticking the knife in when people least expect it. Then walking away with a smile and a wave before they even realize they're bleeding."
- John Constantine
"Self-control is for those who can't control others."
- Gavin Guile
"There are two secrets to becoming great. One is never to reveal all that you know."
- Anon.
Absolutely agree with this take.
I'm going to bluntly state my bias from the start: I greatly favor the writing element of the game/writing alloy we have here.
With that in mind, I'm not a fan of strictly enumerating all of these personal statistics. And while I recognize that physical attributes are necessary to an extent for battles, for the purposes of everything else they're somewhere between nuisance and filler. I'm just trying to write a story. A page of stats doesn't get me any closer to achieving that end.
Updated the main list on the initial post.
I definitely agree about magical attributes. I do not think they have a place in this type of world. It's up the writer in my mind to make the character behaves as s/he wishes. However, I have them included on the second list just so people can read the initial post to see what all people have said.
I have mixed feelings personally on the subject of personal statistics. I think there should be at least a few basic physical stats to let people know what the character can do. Adding a few more helps clear it up in some cases. However, I think Atzar does have a valid point too.
Last edited by Sanste; 11-01-13 at 08:47 PM.