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 Wisdom-based skill checks. Additionally, Listen, Spot, and Search are always considered class skills.
Drawback: Your hyper-attention to minute details can work against you as well as for you. You have a tendency to miss the forest for the trees, especially when it comes to interacting with others, and you take a -1 penalty 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. Lastly, you take a -2 to saves against fascination.
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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