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Originally Posted by Rick_Smith
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Groo was a comic book character who was VERY stupid, but he has all sorts of fighting skills -
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The "Groo the genius" I've suggested fixing, by making talents cheaper, so you don't have to be a brain trust to get a decent number of (not complex) talents.
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Too late for my input to be useful to the update...
But I think this is a problem that is easily fixed by role playing.
I had a character who was your basic strong, dumb, fighter. Ultimately, he reached the point where his strength was high enough to wield a Great Sword one handed. He ended up with a middlin' high IQ (around 17, IIRC) in order to have the talents he needed for all the weapons skills and such he had picked up during play.
But I didn't play him as a genius. I argued that in his case, a high IQ was more indicative of a sort of high animal cunning, rather than intellectual achievement.
Most of these stat issues in ITL can be "fixed" with role playing. The character isn't his stats. The character is what you role play.