Ah, the good old days of a half-orc or dwarf with a 3 charisma how the kids of today will never know how hard it was to intimidate even when you had a insane strength or constitution as a barbarian even while cleaving through half their friends. *Rolls Intimidate check and DM says - "They are not afraid in fact they want to fight you more!" -.-*
On the subject of dump-stat barbarians; I played in a group when the Barbarian class first appeared in Dragon magazine. The GM allowed a player to play a Barbarian and, needless to say, said player dumped INT and CHA (this was 1e and so there were no real skills to worry about).
The Dragon write-up mentioned that the Barbarian mistrusted magic and wouldn't use magic items (!!), so the player decided that this allowed, nay
compelled, his character to destroy or throw away all the party's accumulated magic items. "But my character is really stupid and annoying"....
