Intelligence is NOT a crap stat, but it CAN be a crap stat for some PCs - like Charisma and even Str if you're not using variant:encumbrance.

How to fix it?

Heh... not sure it NEEDS fixing. Some people give one extra language/tool per Int bonus, or give you a starting gold bonus absed on Cha.

I DO think the sorcerer should be replaced by a Int-based mathmagician or psion, but that's just me.

http://methodsetmadness.blogspot.com...-5e-et-al.html



This is pretty straightforward: Strength, Intelligence and Charisma are the more "aggressive" abilities, either trough attacks (Str), skills (Cha with deception, intimidation, feinting, etc.) os spells (Int and Cha). Dexterity, Wisdom and Constitution is the more "defensive" ones.

But there is some nuance.

While Constitution has basically only defensive uses, Dexterity and Wisdom may be used to attack. With some caveats: Dexterity does NOT get added to damage in 3.x, and Wisdom is used for some spells. And Strenght can often protect through armor - although it won't help you with saves or avoiding "touch attacks".

Now, the first thing we learn from this is: sometimes, you can safely dump TWO aggressive stats, provided ONE of them is good enough. And you can dump ALL THREE if you can use one of your passive stats to attack. However, dumping ANY defensive stat is dangerous, because you can choose how to attack your foes... but not how your foes attack you!