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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 3318440" data-attributes="member: 13471">A low-Int character doesn't necessarily do "stupid" things, especially in combat."Grunk tried that once.  Hurt a lot."If the character has survived long enough to acquire some fighting skills and/or levels, then presumably he's found a fighting style that works for him most of the time.  Where he's likely to be lacking is in overall strategy (e.g., he may get so worked up about smashing gnolls that when they retreat he chases after them, forgetting that he's supposed to be defending a certain position) and in flexibility (e.g., fighting a foe whose unusual combat tactics make Grunk's "standard" style ineffective - "Stupid ninja! Stand still so Grunk can hit you!")Real-life example - I was attacked on the bus home by a guy carrying a sack of groceries - he threw a box of macaroni at my head, then ran up and started repeatedly trying to whang me in the head with a can of tomato soup.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  The key word here is "repeatedly".  He kept swinging at me over and over again in the exact same way.  Every time he did so, I would high-block him.  He just kept flailing away with the can and his other fist, and I kept going block-block-block, for several minutes.  I was having to spend so much time and attention blocking that I wasn't able to launch an effective counter-attack.  He never did score a solid hit with the can, though my arms were getting bruised from all the blocking.  After about 40 or so failed attacks(!) he eventually realized that he wasn't having much effect, so he bashed his way out the door of the bus and took off (flinging the can of soup at the window but failing to break it).  He left behind his sack of groceries.  D'oh!(And no, I didn't score the sack, ironic as it would have been.  While I was busy answering questions from the police, somebody else made off with it.)</blockquote>

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