Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Charisma Bloat?

Well. Neither am I an expert on DnD but when you think of it, the correlation between Abilities and spell casting isn't always very logical.

Wizards are easy, they learn magic through study, they can't cast a spell they can't understand ie high INT
Sorcerers are born with magic, it's a part of them and I guess the most logic choice to portray that was CHA even though CON would also work but be less balanced I guess
Bard enchant through their craft which heavily bound to music/singing ie speech/performance so CHA is a given

Druids, Clerics, Paladins (and Ranger to a lesser degree) though...they get their spellcasting from faith. What has that to do with WIS or CHA?

Same goes for Warlock who get their power from a contract. Maybe they were especially good at haggling ie CHA.


But yes, when DnD went from skill points to proficiency, INT became a dump stat for pretty much all but Wizards.