Originally Posted by N7Greenfire
Originally Posted by mrfuji3
Originally Posted by N7Greenfire
The lore says humans are the supreme wizard race, with the literal god of magic having been one, under the old rules a human wizard can never be as good as a gnome.
You keep saying this. Can you provide a source for humans being "the supreme wizard race" (namely compared to gnomes)? If the entirety of your evidence comes from there being more named archwizard humans than archwizard gnomes in 5e material, then there's another explanation: humans are the most common race, and due to the Bell Curve there will be more humans with Int>15 than other races. Actually there's a second reason too: WotC focuses more on humans than other races.

Let's take your claim as true. Humans are the supreme wizard race. Doesn't that mean that humans should actually have *larger* ASIs in Intelligence than gnomes to reflect this? Or some other trait that gives them a stronger innate connection with or aptitude to understand the weave?
And we'll you know the god of magic being a human
Okay, but
1.) Why does this mean that "humans are the supreme wizard race?" Another explanation(s) is just that "this specific human became a goddess for [essentially any] reason." It doesn't imply anything about humans' aptitude for wizardry in general, let alone innate intelligence.
2.) How does this connect to humans getting higher or equal bonuses to intelligence compared to other races? Is Mystra favoring humans, granting them bonuses to Int while they're in the womb? Or is she favoring humans, granting a stronger connection to the weave to less-intelligent humans?