Between the Panels

From the very start of my D&D gaming/roleplaying career, Wisdom has always been a very important player statistic for me to invest in my characters.  I could be playing a Barbarian (who is all about Strength and Constitution btw) and I will almost always strive to make his Wisdom on par or better than his main stats. Why does wisdom matter in a game setting like D&D? How do you even use it? Excellent questions, my inquisitive reader or listener of our podcast 😉. In short, wisdom is about seeing the environment around yourself or other players and knowing how to best address it. Related skills under the wisdom stat are: animal handling, insight, medicine, perception, and survival. This differs from Intelligence which tends to be focused on facts or Charisma that focuses on your contribution to the environment around you. Wisdom is a bit passive, but it's actively looking for things that can help your adventure party in a bind to react well or to process intentions of other...

If you have ever sat with a nerd on a long bus ride or even brought up a differing opinion to them, you have likely learned two things: they are passionate about what they are into and they are often very knowledgeable ! How do I know this? My wife (was one of my friends in youth at the time) made the mistake to ask me what the show Smallville was about (we were just starting a bus trip from Hamilton headed to Hanover: 2 hours long ). Let’s just say, she could have written a doctrinal thesis with the amount of info I gave her on that bus ride…. Any nerd typically has not just that one area of expertise, but a rather large library of information to refer to in their heads because they like to research to be experts in these things.   After all, if you are interested in something, wouldn’t you want to be the known expert in knowledge of it ? Biblically, there is a drive to be a person of expert; particularly in the Bible itself.  If you ever want to see the implications of how ...