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In Which Ileosa Arabasti Grows Savvy to the Conventions of her Genre
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Logically speaking, you should just stop wanting those things and start instead wanting safety, power, and happiness. 

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That seems like a strong argument against being logical. 

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...Speaking of being logical, how intelligently I can discuss intelligence depends on my character level and where we are in the plot of the adventure path, since in Curse of the Crimson Throne I eventually wish up my Int and Wisdom with the assistance of an efreeti.

(And in the anniversary remaster I further increase them with a headband of mental prowess +4 (Int and Wis).)

(Although the headband doesn't make as big a difference between my D&D 3.5 endboss statline and my Pathfinder endboss statline as you might expect, since in the remaster Paizo redoes my pointbuy and dumps my mental stats harder. Which was very kind of them. I love having a negative intelligence modifier. I am very sane and normal about losing three points off my Int score. There are seven authors listed for the anniversary remaster and while I'm 99% sure I know who did this to me, that doesn't mean if I ever escape from the book that the other six won't suffer.) 

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(I kid, I kid. I love you all. Thank you for creating me. If I ever escape into the real world you will live your lives in bliss and terror for reasons entirely unrelated to my anniversary gift of -3 Int.)

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(...Almost entirely unrelated to my anniversary gift of -3 Int.)

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(I can forgive the point of Wis you took. The 3.5 pointbuy only gave you points for dumping a stat to 8, the Pathfinder pointbuy gives you more for dumping to 7, so in both editions I had the lowest Wis score that you could have under the pointbuy, so maybe 7 Wis instead of 8 was just you bringing my Wis score more in line with your original vision. I don't like it, and I'm not happy about it, but I can forgive it. But three Int was a fourth of my Intelligence score! Would you like it if I fed 3 of your Int to an alraune? ...Maybe you would, actually, and I can't take that chance, so what else is there that drains intelligence; I'm a high-level bard and can take twenty on this knowledge check. Okay, it looks like there's a kind of ghost from Bestiary 6 called an "obambo." Would you like it if I fed 3 of your Int to an obambo? (That's 15 IQ in your Earth units. (More or less; Int is broader than what IQ tests directly measure and narrower than the panoply of correlates that 'IQ' is colloquially taken to mean.)) Sounds painful, doesn't it? You jerk. Death would be too good for you. But I'm not actually mad enough to feed your higher faculties to an obambo. I'm a merciful soul, and I really am grateful to you for creating me, so I'd use an alraune.)

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(And what did I even get in return for my Int and Wis? Physical stats? Look, I am never going to turn down higher physical stats if they're on offer. I will plunder the state to afford a better belt. I will enslave genies for wishes. I will fuse an erinyes devil to my soul. I'm probably doing four different kinds of zerk. But if you're min-maxing my point-buy, there's no reason to focus on a spellcaster's physical stats especially when the remaster lets me use Dex for melee damage instead of Str and Charisma for hitpoints instead of Con; if you were min-maxing, you could have started me off with 20 Charisma and 18 Dex and I could still afford 13 Int. But if, instead of min-maxing, you're picking stats that fit the character, there's no reason for me to start at level one with a 98th percentile Dexterity and 98th percentile Constitution and a 200 lb deadlift. If it's supposed to be central to my character that I'm a great athlete, that should have been written somewhere in the adventure path without having to reverse-engineer level one stats from a high-level statblock, and it should inform my character art.)

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(I think about this a normal amount. It does not keep me awake at night, tremblingly furious.)
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Daaang, you lift. I'm jelly.

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Didn't you start at level 1 with 14 Strength, 18 while raging? Since the rules say "A character can lift as much as double his maximum load off the ground," your deadlift must have started at 350 lbs (600 while raging) and only gone up from there. 

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Oh, Choryon is way more shredded than me, and also just a bigger person in every dimension.

I barely count as a megafauna. 

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I weigh, like, a hundred and thirty pounds dripping wet. 

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Woof. Stay hydrated out there.

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I'm not Altronus to learn your exact ability scores from bumping into you, and I definitely don't know your mental stats, but I think in the game of CotCT we've been playing, at least your physical stats are lower than in book. Did the GM make your wish come true?

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The GM built me on an eight-point buy because there wasn't "a compelling in-universe reason" for my stats to be any higher than that. 

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Oooooooof. Massive L. Do you want my help getting revenge?

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Choryon, I would love your help getting revenge.

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BRB

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Okay, I've done vicious karate to the GM for you. 
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Excellent work. 

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Why a headband of mental prowess? Don't you cast from Charisma?

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My Crown of Fangs does Charisma.

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And you're you secretly an ettin?

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The Crown is a head-slot, not a headband-slot! 

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