Russel Bishop (The Huffington Post) ::

Imagine that you want to learn a language. The intellectual approach might be to read a bunch of books about the language while an intelligent approach might be to hang out with people who actually speak the language. The intellectual approach may result in someone who knows all the rules of grammar but who is incapable of actually carrying on a conversation. The intelligent approach may produce someone who is fluent, but not necessarily able to articulate the rules.

:: via marlalapalooza on Twitter


I suspect this probably has implications for the crucial distinction between “geek” and “nerd” as well, but I don’t have time to wrap my head around it, right now.

Another point to consider: how would ‘intelligence’ and ‘intellect’ be operationalized in terms of RPG dynamics? I suspect (as in the language example above) there would be times where either stat could be used to modify a particular skill check, depending on the kind of outcome desired. But alas, even that will need to wait until i’m feeling a bit more lucid…