Hey, I'm fairly new to D&D as a DM and I am just looking for a bit of advice for one of my players. We are playing a game from outside of the D&D universe and mainly using the mechanics of D&D as a platform from which to play. He is wanting to play the game as a tinkerer. He creates gizmos and gadgets and mobile suits of armor to fight in this world. We were talking to him about how a druid makes sense, because we could role play the wild shape as him entering or exiting a suit for combat and his prepared spells could be gizmos that he keeps on himself to use as needed. The big hiccup he has is that his character is a fairly solid intelligence over wisdom type, maybe somewhat of a Sheldon Cooper. He won't know much anything about animal handling, insight, survival or medicine. As the DM would it be game breaking for me to let him play Druid based off of his intelligence stats instead of his wisdom stats or is there a better way in which to do this.
No problem that I'm aware of; Wisdom is arguably a more important stat than Intelligence, anyway. I would advise that you also switch out his skill list and saving throw proficiencies for those of the wizard.
Hey, I'm fairly new to D&D as a DM and I am just looking for a bit of advice for one of my players. We are playing a game from outside of the D&D universe and mainly using the mechanics of D&D as a platform from which to play. He is wanting to play the game as a tinkerer. He creates gizmos and gadgets and mobile suits of armor to fight in this world. We were talking to him about how a druid makes sense, because we could role play the wild shape as him entering or exiting a suit for combat and his prepared spells could be gizmos that he keeps on himself to use as needed. The big hiccup he has is that his character is a fairly solid intelligence over wisdom type, maybe somewhat of a Sheldon Cooper. He won't know much anything about animal handling, insight, survival or medicine. As the DM would it be game breaking for me to let him play Druid based off of his intelligence stats instead of his wisdom stats or is there a better way in which to do this.
No problem that I'm aware of; Wisdom is arguably a more important stat than Intelligence, anyway. I would advise that you also switch out his skill list and saving throw proficiencies for those of the wizard.
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