Wisdom reflects how attuned you are to the world around you and represents perceptiveness and intuition. #### Wisdom Checks A Wisdom check might reflect an effort to read body language, understand someone’s feelings, notice things about the environment, or care for an injured person. The [[Animal Handling]], [[Insight]], [[Medicine]], [[Perception]], and [[Survival]] skills reflect aptitude in certain kinds of Wisdom checks. ![[Animal Handling]] ![[Insight]] ![[Medicine]] ![[Perception]] ![[Survival]] ##### **Other Wisdom Checks**  The DM might call for a Wisdom check when you try to accomplish tasks like the following: - Get a gut feeling about what course of action to follow - Discern whether a seemingly dead or living creature is undead #### Spellcasting Ability [[Cleric|Clerics]], [[Druid|Druids]], and [[Ranger|Rangers]] use [[Wisdom]] as their spellcasting ability, which helps determine the saving throw DCs of spells they cast.