Holmesian Intuition (3.5e Trait)
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Holmesian Intuition
Reading people and your environment is a science, not an art.
Benefit: You notice tiny details in your surroundings, extrapolate meaning from your knowledge, and arrive at uncannily accurate conclusions. When it comes to other creatures, your knowledge of physiology, psychology and behavioral science inform your awareness of their actions, not some gut feeling. You use your Intelligence modifier in place of your Wisdom modifier for Spot, Sense Motive and Survival checks. These skills are always considered class skills. If you have at least 5 ranks in the appropriate knowledge skill for a creature, you gain a +2 synergy bonus to these checks.
Drawback: Your "gut instinct" is little-used and underdeveloped. You take a -1 penalty on all other Wisdom-based skill checks. You also have a tendency to miss the forest for the trees, especially when it comes to interacting with others, and you take a -1 to all social skill checks. Additionally, constant attention to minute details makes it difficult to focus your mind, and the DC of any Concentration check increases by +4.
Roleplaying Ideas: Your character may enjoy "deducing" facts about others in a fashion similar to the literary figure for which this trait is named. Your character may feel that tomes of research and study are more reliable than lived experience. Characters with this trait may become so focused on minutia and understanding small details that they can miss out on other things happening around them.
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