{What ability score is like} {What ability saves are like} ## Uses for Intelligence Intelligence is the primary skill for the [[Actions#Study|study]] action; a useful tool to recall ## Skills #### Arcana Your Arcana skill measures your ability to recall lore about spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical traditions, the planes of existence, and the inhabitants of those planes. This is used to identify what a magic item may do, to copy a spell into a grimoire, or remember something about a naturally magical or otherwise esoteric creature. #### Culture Your Culture skill reflects your ability to understand the area around you, and the people within a civilization. #### History Your History skill tracks your ability to recall or understand lore about historical events, legendary people and relics, former kingdoms, past wars, and lost civilizations. Racking your memory about old information or gaining knowledge from an ancient text uses your History. #### Investigation Methodical and finer detail some topics that this helps them master are Traps, ciphers, riddles, gadgetry Investigation skill checks are a great catch-all tool for searching an area or object for finer details such as claw marks, how the pages of a book fall, hidden compartments, or soot smears. > This is not mentioned in the study action because the action is more meant to recall knowledge about topics that each skill may cover. Investigation as described here is more of a method you can employ when trying to find things. #### Nature knowledge of the natural world and plants --- Related pages: [[Ability Scores]]