But it's so *embarrassing * to be running around with an intelligence of 9 when you're a child of bhaal. In my first game I made the mistake of increasing cha instead of int/wis (would you believe how I wailed and moaned when I found the ring?), and I was very lucky that I didn't fall into any paper bags, as I would have been unlikely to be able to think my way out of them. I'm trying to decide now whether it is cheating to increase a stat you actually have no use for (I always play tanks), just to stop you feeling like the dumb country cousin demigod. Otherwise everybody in ToB is gonna laugh at me.