<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=220405.msg10854166#msg10854166">Quote from: Zaer Darkwail on 03-01-2015, 06:33:13</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Well, low wisdom does that. He may mistake things on glance but he is not stupid (so he can rapidly learn facts than just deny them).<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>You may need to revisit how attribute scoring works in D&D...10 is 'average'. So your character, with an INT 12, is actually smarter than the average person. His wisdom is 8. That means he's not as wise as the average person.<br/><br/>As it happens, Lark is Int 10, Wis 8.<br/><br/>Lark gets lost pretty easily in unfamiliar surroundings. He's not a good judge of people. He's not very worldly or learned. He's liable to go haring off into ambushes more quickly than a wiser veteran might. He's liable to behave like a young fellow who tries to prove himself when no-one really expects it, and to over-extend himself or bite off more than he can chew.<br/><br/>Lark is not a blathering idiot or a socially inept babbler. But he is young, easily impressed or fooled, and something of a country bumpkin. With some years of schooling he could probably be improved, but the truth is that outside of the narrow spectrum of his experience (smithing and mounted cavalry) and some things he's heard songs about (bardic knowledge), he doesn't know terribly much about the world. He won't recognize what the weaknesses of common monsters are. He knows a touch about nobility and titles because it's part of being a knight. In town, he will not so much gather information as be a magnet for con artists, beggars, and thieves.<br/><br/>The way you've portrayed your character so far isn't really representative of the scores...And if you will excuse my saying so, it's the kind of portrayal that's a little bit embarrassing (and potentially offensive) to anyone who has ever worked with people who were developmentally challenged. I'd suggest that in the 10/8 range you convey a more average or 'near-average' intelligence, not an idiot.<br/><br/>As Bibliophilia has pointed out, it does make it extremely hard to imagine a competent party putting up with him. No-one is going to want to be around someone who has the restraint of a four-year-old child and has access to deadly magic and sharp weapons.