We all know mage spells draw on INT for determining effectiveness, and not STR. This is not a new concept. It is, however, new to the IC, where magic directly and explicitly requires STR and (depending on Paolini's mood) even occasionally draws on HP.
I've written "Charisma-based" casters, but the way I tend to do it is having the character rely on force of personality to keep their magic in control. Unlike a wizard, who has to summon up power and focus it, a sorcerer-type has a shit-ton of power and has to maintain control over it so that it will do what they want. More "demon summoner who needs to convince the demon to help them instead of killing them" than "stage magician".
I for one like WIS as the skill of choice. It seems to me like the ideal stat for wrangling a bit of a primordial force, since WIS is the STR of intellectual traits.
I always saw Wis as more the Con of mental stats, with Cha as the Str and Int as the Dex. Kind of a flawed analogy, though, since the mental stats are so different from the physical ones.
Personally, I really like using the Tomato Theory of Stats for this kind of thing: - Strength is how hard and how far you can throw a tomato - Dexterity is how accurate you are with a thrown tomato, and how well you dodge tomatoes - Constitution is whether you can eat a rotten tomato without throwing up - Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit, specifically a berry - Wisdom is knowing that even if tomatoes are technically fruit, they do not go in fruit salad - Charisma is being able to sell someone a fruit salad with tomatoes in it
What's going to happen? Some illiterate peasant from a tiny backwater farming village is going to march right up to Uru'baen and tell Galbatorix "A man named Brom is raising an infant boy named Eragon" and... then what?
Then nothing... because, as we all know, this is how Galbatorix reacts when the Varden start stirring shit.
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Personally, I really like using the Tomato Theory of Stats for this kind of thing:
- Strength is how hard and how far you can throw a tomato
- Dexterity is how accurate you are with a thrown tomato, and how well you dodge tomatoes
- Constitution is whether you can eat a rotten tomato without throwing up
- Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit, specifically a berry
- Wisdom is knowing that even if tomatoes are technically fruit, they do not go in fruit salad
- Charisma is being able to sell someone a fruit salad with tomatoes in it
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Then nothing... because, as we all know, this is how Galbatorix reacts when the Varden start stirring shit.
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