OOTS #1126 - The Discussion Thread

[AstralFire]

We know that Elan doesn't even have a smidgen of Wisdom.

I'll say that I've never found that quote terribly convincing (comic 80, and Roy's being a jerk). Elan is remarkably good at coming up with insights into people and has a strong sense of will. I'd be surprised if his Wis was worse than a -1 penalty on average despite the poor common sense, which is more than low enough to qualify for 'can't cast as a cleric'. If you have most of your levels in Bard and you're somewhere in the teens with a -1 wis penalty, you still should be around on par with even a very wise fighter of the same level.

The larger point, however, is that I just don't find Roy's highlighting in this plot to be interesting enough (as of yet) to merit basically everyone else being reduced to a background, and there's plausible enough reasons for others to not be disabled. I am not especially interested in a long debate to narrow down exact ability scores.