Originally posted by defender43
Intelligence can be trained. I see \"Intelligence\" as a synonym for Wisdom, which comes from a combination and application of knowledge and experience. Both are easily trained. Reading a book on philosophy, or just about anything can increase knowledge. Experience comes from making desicions, as we do on a day-do-day basis, and learning from the good ones and the bad ones. So:
Intelligence = Wisdom.
Wisdom = Experience + Knowledge.
Not bad an idea, but I must disagree with that. Wisdom is more like willpower, judgement, (The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight), while intelligence is knowledge.
Knowing something cannot be used properly unless you know how to apply it or use it correctly, in which things like common sense come into play.
Wisdom can be thought of as knowledge gathered through the ages, but in this context I don\'t think it applies. Common sense and good judgement is only partially gained through knowledge, but mostly through experience, ie, using it solely.
Originally posted by defender43
Experience and Knowledge are both trainable.
Wisdom is based on Knowledge and Experience, and therefor also trainable.
Intelligence is the same thing as Wisdom, ans therfor since Wisdom is trainable, Intelligence is also trainable.
Therfore, I conclude that Intelligence is a fully trainable stat.
Yes, intelligence is trainable. I agree with you on that. However, I disagree on the reasons. Wisdom, in my opinion, is
not the same as intelligence.
My reasons for being able to train intelligence:
Intelligence represents knowledged gained through experience and learning. Since people are always learning something new, intelligence grows. If you could not \'train\' intelligence, we\'d probably be stuck knowing how to read or not when we\'re born (As in, we have no control over it.)
Originally posted by defender43
Also: Use of senses:
Sight: When you first enter the world, your vision is kind of blurry. Not THAT blurry mind you, but not crystal clear like it is now.
Hearing: Hearing people, sounds and such from farther away.
Smell: typing /smell into the chatbox and reading what you smell. You can smell things behind trees in the woods. Good for rangers. Note: do not use in sewers. It\'ll hurt you.
Taste: take a small nibble of food/ small sip of drink before comsuming it all. If the food is too raw and would hurt you, you\'d know, or if it has spoilt or gone stale, or the \'bad whiskey\' that once put my character in a coma...
Touch: Testing a weapon, if the center of balance is too far towards the blade end and will be clumsy, you\'ll know it. Or if something is of fine or poor craftsmanship, so you\'ll know the quality of goods before you buy them. Or if a weapon is too heavy at the hilt, and you won\'t do much damage with it, you\'ll know it. And it should also help healers.
Intuition (6th sense): Increase with wisdom. Knowing if an enemy is sneaking up behind you. Or if the cave is going to cave in. You\'ll know when and where to go before you get klobbered.
You\'ve got some very descriptive things there, let me take it apart to handle with ease.
Sight: It is not really trainable that easily. There are conditions where a person may or may not be able to see easily at birth. Some people have really bad eyesight, while others have perfect.
The only thing I can think that you can train is improving your general awareness, how observant you are, not how well you see.
Hearing: This is simple. I\'ve known people to become accustomed to listening to extremely soft sounds, or from far off.
So, improving your hearing would consist mostly of you paying more attention to what you actually hear.
Smell: Eh... This is the only sense where I know of no possibility to improve it. You certainly can remember smells, but for sensing things that are hiding... Unless you\'re one of the few races in Planeshift that use their noses exclusively, I\'d have to say no.
And for smelling in the sewers, that\'s a bit extreme, don\'t you think? The only time where it\'d be horrible enough to gag you would be a
horrendous smell. I don\'t think the sewers are
that bad.
Touch: There\'s not much in how you can improve what you feel from touching... When you try to gauge the balance of a blade, you\'re not learning that from touching it, but from lifting it, experimenting with it, weighing it, balancing it.
Basically what I\'m trying to say is that it\'s a far stretch of the imagination, to label something like that as \'touching\'.
You certainly can run your thumb or the like along the blade to gauge the sharpness of the blade, but I don\'t think you can really train that..
Intuition sounds like a badly tortured version of being psychic. At least, the way you\'re describing it. You\'d have to \'sense\' a person was sneaking up on you, and that would basically be a combination of a few senses, not intuition.
I\'m much more sketchy on intuition... I\'m not saying that I don\'t believe in it, it does exist, but I really, really doubt you can train something as elusive as that.
