We were told in the past that how well a job the AI does at avoiding damaging surfaces when controlling your characters/followers is based on that character's intelligence score. I'm not sure if that's still the case.
If accurate, I think that's pretty cool. It just makes sense to me that a less intelligent character might recklessly run up after a battle saying "Did you see that blow! I was amazi.. oh gods this floor is still hot!! (hops around)", where as a smarter character would carefully make his way across the battlefield to avoid any lingering dangers.
Well, it's true it would be great, but last time, it was my mage who died, the one who just learned resurect spellbook, so the one with the highest intelligence of the party. I'm afraid for the warriors. ^^