Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition - Now your playing with Playtests!

[DrBurr]

Yeah, that's why no RPG other than D&D (or D&D clones) gives you a wisdom score.

Wisdom wasn't related to perception in 2E; it was just "the caster stat for non-wizards". It became the stat for perception/insight in 3E just to make it less of a dump stat for people who weren't a divine caster. And the result is that clerics became better trapfinders than rogues are. It's weird but it's legacy, it's really not going to disappear now.

Just don't let the cleric near the trap he might lose a hand :P

So apparently Mearls is advising people to houserule the game to fit our own flavors, time to screw over my players