How to roleplay stats

[Shnigda]

Hey guys, a character I've made has 14 Int but only 6 Wis. To me Wisdom and Intelligence go hand in hand, so I find it difficult to distinguish between a wise action and an intelligent one.
Can anyone give me examples of actions that would befit those stats and some that wouldn't?
Thanks!

[Toilet Cobra]

Prize knowledge and future developments over the present. Come up with great plans that have serious drawbacks you didn't consider because you were caught up in your great idea. If you have lots of knowledge skills, talk about the geographical or political importance of a castle when you really should be keeping an eye out for the hobgoblins who now inhabit it.

You might also be the type to put your foot in your mouth. Your Int makes you ramble on about the sordid history of the Evil Count's debauched family history, and your Wis makes you do it while your party face is trying to ask the Evil Count for information. Never let tact prevent you from sharing your great knowledge.

[Albions_Angel]

You are book smart. You can recite exactly how to build a shelter and find food, you know 300 different types of edible berries, and you know all the great survivalists. But put you in the wilderness and you are stuck. You try doing what you remember but you always forget to account for something and your fires go out, your huts fall over, you misidentify what you thought was a black berry but is actually a black lotus berry.

You can see the speck in the sky flying towards you. You can tell from its speed that its one of 356 different possible monsters. The ranger next to you tells you its a hawk and is only 100 feet away.

You get easily distracted in the wild, studying everything you see. You miss obvious things.

But in battle, you can recall all the important knowledge. As the ranger goes in to flank the wolf, you are able to shout a warning. The snout, posture, eyes, they are all distinctive of a were, not an animal. With your aid, the ranger is able to use silver to dispatch it quickly.

If you dont know something, your first instinct it so seek a library, not learn from the experience itself.

[jiriku]

You can play a high-Int low-Wis character as someone who's too confident in his intelligence. His Plan A is great, but he has no Plan B because he can't imagine he would fail. He might also regularly underestimate others. This sort of character might also be someone who knows a lot of theory but has little practical experience and doesn't understand the value of experience. He'd assume that if he knows about something, he's got it handled.

[erok0809]

One of the common sayings for differentiating between intelligence and wisdom is "Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."

[martixy]

I'd say both a wise and an intelligent character could arrive at the same conclusion towards something, but in a different manner.
The wise character intuitively and through experience will be able to present a solution to a problem.
The intelligent character will sit down, correlate all facts and come up with the best, most logical solution based on the available information.

In the Myers-Briggs type system, the Wise character would be type N, while the intelligent would be type S.

[OldTrees1]

Here is how I would phrase the High Int Low Wis:

I know everything but understand nothing.
You know that bright guy who always misrepresents your position when you debate with them? That's them. They have the smarts to come up with complex arguments for their sophisticated positions, but they seem to misread everything someone else writes.
They are also the guy who can recite all the details of a historical event, but their mental models of the chief actors are mere caricatures.
A bright bulb capable of handling the most complex of concepts but blissfully unaware of being victim to every cognitive bias there is.

[ZxxZ]

It pays to remember that your wisdom determines your perceptive stats, so you could treat him like an absentminded professor. He could be giving a lecture about the astounding coloration on the scales of that dragon and be slightly detached from the fact that it's trying to eat everyone

[Geddy2112]

Wisdom also represents patience and common sense.

A high int low wis character ALWAYS knows better, but might frequently do something blockheaded. This could be out of aloofness or haste. Lots of "look before you leap" in this kind. Great in theory terrible in practice.

You could be a herpetologist who knows everything about cobras-their mating habits, life cycle, biochemistry of their venom, diet, geographical distribution, evolutionary history, etc. When you go to look for them, you either scare them away by running brashly through the jungle, fail to see one right in front of you, or step on one. Or frequently see "cobras" in every snake, log, lizard, and cobra like object. If bitten, you know exactly what the venom will do, what the antitoxin is, dosage based on the bite/size of person, symptoms, administration, etc. But you might neglect the treatment for the puncture wound.

[Korilith]

High-Int, Low-Wis is Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory. :smallsmile:

[Elkad]

One of the common sayings for differentiating between intelligence and wisdom is "Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."

And Charisma is making fruit salad out of it anyway and convincing people to buy it as salsa.