I think int is control on mana while wis stat is intelligence.
But INT still gonna be there. It makes the stat page more convuluted as well.
That makes more sense but, how do you increase intelligence? Because in most RPGs and by association LitRPGs stats are manually assigned. Of course there are a minority that use actions to increase stats but those are rare.
Huh, Thats intresting.
Like a person above said, you can use INT as a pure combat stat and add wisdom for intelligence\smartness. It's the most obvious and easy answer. You can look into this even further and come up with something that suits you and your convuluted stat page.
I like to think of the INT stat or intelligence as how quickly someone learns or retains knowledge of all stripes; it goes hand-in-hand with wisdom because wisdom is how well someone applies what they've learned and uses it to perform or complete something. For example you can learn how to thread a needle and sew but until you stitch a patch onto pants or make a shirt with them then you aren't applying what you learn. I think people have a hard time showing what they mean with the INT or WIS stats because they don't understand how to help other people see the way they thought that led them to how they arrived at their destination. As for using it in games and books, magic capacity isn't wrong but it isn't right either, probably it would be closer to say that it's how many spells or magic someone can learn in a short period of time without hurting their brain; or maybe it would be how fast new spells are learned.
Im talking about INT by itself, without the addition or split of Wisdom and Intellect (which is really the same thing as INT). Im not looking for 'easy' answers either, I'm looking for something that makes reasonable sense, like @zasso 's page above this. While making sure that if you have something like a status page, it would take less than 5 minutes to partially understand every stat.
The thing is, if you use INT as something other than a pure combat stat, then your characters should change their way of thinking according to the growth of the said stat. So, if you ask with the intention to use it later on, I advise you not to. But you do you. Hope you will find a suitable answer.
So INT gives working vocal cords? Speech areas of the brain are developed? A bird would be able to talk if it has high int despite not even having the adequate lung shape to push enough air at the proper pace and make more than a cuack?
There's a reason different toddlers learn to speak faster than others... "INT" can be used that way which is interesting. o-o
Yeah, environmental differences most of the time.
If you declare that races can learn and in this case [int] would be a matter of how fast, there're some nice ways to go around it like getting 1/2 int per birthday, so he'd have 2 int age 1 minimum 4 int age 2 minimum, it would show that he learns faster as a 2-year-old than when he was younger.