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One of my favourite characters was a wizard/barbarian lizardman. He believed that if you defeated a powerful foe you could gain its power by eating its heart (and also knew that this wasn't literal, it was a cultural thing). He explained to the party that he was very smart because "I ate a wizard, once." In fact, the wizard had had a Headband of Intellect that Xarg took from his corpse. He disguised the headband by wrapping it in crude leather decorated with teeth, making it look like a tribal collar thingy, so that people didn't know how important it was.
Imagine going from incredible intelligence, to absolute stupidity, every time you take your hat off. That must be a very jarring experience.
Another good reason why he switched the item's form factor from headband to collar, much less likely to come off that way. Especially since lizardmen don't really have good foreheads for headbands to begin with. :)
He must have come up with that idea while wearing the headband.
Heh. Int 8 isn't all that dumb.
Though it was rather amusing that with the headband on he was actually the smartest member of the entire party. He was also often the voice of restraint and mercy. While he believed that it was important to slay powerful foes and devour their hearts, conversely it was bad to slay weak foes. Not only is it a waste of time and effort, those foes could one day grow to become worthy challenges if you let them go. Or at the very least be worthy foes for some other future foe that's working their way up to challenge you themselves.
He had basically made a cultural belief system out of XP grinding.
Int 8 is most of my co-workers.
I have one buddy I think is int 14 or 15.
I wonder what 8 int is like. Maybe like Joey from Friends? That would make 20 int like Einstein, or Oppenheimer?
Now I'm imagining Crocodile Dundee, but it's an actual crocodile that casts spells.