How to Play a Genius WITHOUT Actually Needing to Know Everything

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[PlayYourRole]

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[hammock]

I played a Wizard who was that world's first Wizard reborn, but he learns his spell book was turned into a text book to teach students. They treated his theories as fact and copied his spell list, he was obly pissed that they stopped where he stopped. The words i used were "You were supposed to explore the frontiers of Magic, not build a foundation pn my grave" he was so excited to see how magic had changed too.

[SessVlogs]

I love how the intelligent character in our campaign is played. He’s basically a prodigy artificer and can make insane things…but he’s also a 15 year old orphan with abandonment issues. He makes big, flashy weapons because he wants to impress everyone around him so they don’t leave him. Unfortunately, making big things means we have no way of transporting anything he makes, so he ends up having to ditch his creations at every town we visit. He’s now learning that building smaller, more practical devices actually makes him way more of an asset to the team, and makes us all less mad at him 😅
Update on this character: our other characters had stuff to do one day so we went and did our own thing. He thought the party had abandoned him so he stole an airship, shrunk it, stuffed it in our bag of holding, and then ran away. Needless to say, he's still on that learning curve!

[JamieJamesVT]

I will always remember Percy running off during a cannonball contest to get a copper kettle and raw sodium. Taliesin used some actual chemsitry knowledge to add to a comedy bit, playing both into Percy's intelligence and that intelligence will not save you from dumb ideas for the sake of a laugh.

[cydude]

I like to call this trope House Syndrome. Characters like Sherlock are very high intelligence with low wisdom. They don’t know how to interact with people properly.

A character with high intelligence and high wisdom (or just a nice character with high intelligence) would look more like Yoda and Iroh, showing their intelligence as a mentor role.

[norsethenomad]

Just to back up this notion at 8:39, one of my friends in highschool was extremely smart in the academic sense. 4.0 GPA, Principles List, Graduated a year early and already completed a year of college when she did graduate. Super smart, extremely intelligent.

Didn’t know how to deposit cash into her bank from her banks ATM.

Didn’t know that water and engine coolant had VERY different boiling points.

Genuinely thought I was very smart (maybe)

This person who ran circles around everyone academically and went to school dressed like a female CEO of a billion dollar company knew very little outside of academics.

They were also an amazingly kind and empathetic person who would help people without hesitation, just a wonderful person

[starlepus]

i like playing genius characters like teachers. the dont put others down. instead they try to raise everyone up to their level. one of my characters is currently teaching the barbarian in my party to read

[simonwatkins]

TBF Watson takes time to point out Sherlock is not as smart as he thinks.

[ermacmacro]

I once played a wizard that was also a monk, he was smart (had a full 20 int thanks to being an elf and getting a lucky die roll for the stats) but he had dumb moments. He'd try and think his way out of situations, he'd be afraid of monsters that he'd recognize as substantial more capable than themselves (the party as a whole). But he'd also have stupid moments like trying to (and actually almost succeeding in) kicking down magically enchanted door because he didn't trust the abjuration magic on the door.

But he'd also use his intelligence in a way that was profound. He'd give little bits of existential knowledge that could help.

I actually did take the genius angle in terms of "I'm enough of a genius to know that I'm not a genius"

[claudiamcfie]

The most intelligent person I knew in my life was my Dad (RIP Dad). He always knew what he didn't know, and would seek out someone to ask. When interacting with less well educated people, he'd make a point of asking something they knew that he didn't.

[superawesomegoku]

I end up having a situation where when I play a wizard, i end up also playing a noble, because its easy to mask that "Jerk-ness" as being a noble rather than having a character just be a jerk because hes smart

[jayobrine]

POV: you don’t play dnd type games and you chose this video to just hear how to write a good smart character in a story

[JJJSmit]

In any context other than being a player in a ttrpg I would give the advice of "you have hours to figure out what your character thinks of on the spot."

[JustASleepyFox]

I swear bro is single handedly carrying my roleplaying skills.

[claudiamcfie]

Caleb from the Mighty Nein was a very well played high intelligence character.

[dely]

The original Sherlock from the novels was actually a very nice person, he never disrespected anyone who didn't deserve it and instead of playing the "I'M MORE SMART THAN YOU" card he used to teach other characters how his deduction worked so they could do it too. Is a shame that there's people out there like the writers of the show that didn't see this part of Sherlock's personality

[RasmusVJS]

My genius character is the exact opposite, arguably the moral compass of the group and naively nice, to the point where he struggles to understand selfishness because he finds it irrational. It helps that his backstory is that he awoke one day with no memory of his past, so he doesn't have a lot of knowledge, he's just extremely logical.

[feitocomfruta]

Also, I agree with the important part is knowing WHERE to get the knowledge. A master contractor fixing an HVAC unit will often look up the how-to articles on how to replace the air filter, even if they replace 30 identical filters in a day. The difference between a genius and a know-it-all is a genius checks their own work.

[LocalMaple]

2:06 The Supreme Scientist. It’s very common in science fiction because it’s written by scientists to simultaneously glorify science and the scientific process, while putting down theories and other scientists they don’t like. It’s a trope because it’s basically a scientist writing their own superiority over other scientists and plebeians in story form.

[Alche_mist]

As a teacher who actually tries to support my students and a DM, thanks for the kind words.
Also, while I don't really care about the dancing squrrels, I haved loved The Wife's quips since she first appeared on the channel - but this time, she was even more amazing. Keep her, feed her, pet her (if she's into it), be good to her. She deserves all the love and all the dumb ideas. Seriously.