![]() Such as slowly doodling simple math proofs while carrying on an unrelated conversation.Ĭonsider the ways a Swarm of Cranium Rats might overcome an obstacle more unusually, a Hobgoblin Warlord’s ingenuity in battle transferring into political maneuvers, a Yuan-Ti Malison’s attention to subtle details and the answers that arrive from that. Finally, they can display background multitasking of more moderate tasks – but somewhat inefficiently – without requiring focus. For example, using war stratagem instead of raw Deception, recalling exact physical instructions instead of raw Sleight of Hand, or achieving Intimidation via mind games. ![]() Notably, creatures of this intellectual level may begin to attempt a simple skill transference, filling skill gaps with a reliance on wit. Occasionally, the Gifted may have flashes of insight on novel systems, which they can put to good use with a strong working memory. They can sometimes make solid deductions based on many seemingly unrelated details. ( Note: take these guidelines as optional rules that would certainly change Monster Challenge Ratings, as I mentioned in my piece, Beyond D&D 5e Challenge Rating: 20 Traits of Difficulty, Danger, and Death.)Įxample D&D 5e Creatures: Cloud Giant Smiling One, Deathlock, Djinni, Erinyes, Faerie Dragon, Gauth, Hobgoblin Warlord, Oni, Sacred Statue, Sprite, Swarm of Cranium Rats, Yuan-Ti Malison.Īt this tier, creatures begin to present a bit more eccentrically, perhaps with idiosyncratic speech patterns, or the clever use of irony. Let’s start putting all this together into a coherent progression, including the behavioral traits, Intellect Archetypes, and strategies by tier, featuring actual D&D 5e creature examples. ![]() For now, r ecall that in Part One, I identified fourteen Intellect Archetypes for D&D 5e: Architect, Artist, Historian, Inventor, Investigator, Linguist, Logician, Naturalist, Mathematician, Philosopher, Sage, Strategist, Tradecrafter, and Visionary. Transapient, INT 20-29 in my 5e indexing, fea tures “ f oresight, oversight, ideogenesis, translogic, autoscience” Sapient, INT 6-19 in my 5e indexing, features “s elf awareness, language, rationality, abstractness, numeracy”.ģ. Non-Sapient, INT 1-5 in my 5e indexing, features “cognition, sensation, emotion”.Ģ. Though they have several extremely complex scales of intelligence, I will borrow three simply categories to start with in discussing the topic of Hyper-Intelligence:ġ. To start, for this post I’ve drawn heavily on concepts from the Orion’s Arm Universe Project, a collaborative online science-fiction worldbuilding endeavor.
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