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Oops, we maxed out intelligence but minimized wisdom

Listen, D&D stats are at least as good as Myers-Briggs, okay?

See, in things like Dungeons & Dragons, your character starts with certain statistics (stats) distributed among some set of canonical attributes like strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, charisma. It’s an 8 out of 18, and now I have to suffer the consequences my whole life as I sneeze and ache my way through the decades (mine is a character build sometimes described as a “glass canon” in D&D parlance). There have been Jack Blacks throughout the ages—in centuries past he would have been a court jester, speaking truth to power in rhymes and songs, auguring the future with riddles spoken upside down, eventually beheaded.

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