Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Originally Posted by 1varangian
Dumping Int should have some consequences.

Some dialogue options that assume at least average intelligence should be replaced with "stupid" lines.
Sure ...

And people who dump Str should get reduced movement speed with armor, or with something in their backpack.
People who dump Dex should randomly get roll for triping over their own foot.
People who dump their Con will get their arms broken when attacked.
People who dump theis Wis will also get stupid lines.
And peole who will dump their Cha willget face and body of their avatar deformed.

See how absurd it gets?

Honestly none of what you said sounds all that absurd and in fact sounds pretty interesting and fun. Except the charisma one. Charisma isn't about looks anyway, it's about charm and force of personality. A person with charisma could be pretty decent-looking but be incredibly shy and awkward, or crude and unpleasant to be around. Hell, you could argue that a deformed character can still have a high charisma and they simply leverage their deformities to put people off guard in some way. I'm reminded of a Discworld book where it was revealed that often beggars will extort folk by hanging around them and not leaving until they're paid off. I'd call that success on a persuasion check.

But aside from that, what you suggested wouldn't even be that hard to implement if Larian wanted to. Dex would be the trickiest, and I feel like Con being health and vitality is so straight forward as a concept that it doesn't actually need anything else added onto it. Maybe you get random sicknesses and debuffs? Honestly if all instances of exceptionally high or low stats got acknowledged in-game at some point-not even all the time, but there were two or three moments scattered throughout the game for each stat-I would be genuinely impressed and applaud Larian for it. Now THAT'S what I call replay value.