Huh, wonder why they ever even nerfed the headband...
Because it was never intended to let you make a wizard with INT for a dump stat that was just as powerful as a wizard that actually dedicates his attributes to INT. Also it has always been this way in BG3.
19 is still only a +4 Int modifier, and a head slot for it is pretty major with some of these helmets we get in the later game. I see nothing particularly game-breaking here. And it's not a competitive game anyway, so you really shouldn't even be that worried about making everything perfectly balanced.
But it makes sense that the stats aren't changing on a dead character. They were his stats in his last moments of life. A corpse sure ain't got no constitution or wisdom.
That sounds bizarre to me, and could still be abusable. Maybe one should let the own characters die with the headband equipped, revive them without it and hope that the INT 17 is still there... Or imagine Speak with Dead and he is still super intelligent? Where would the line be drawn here?
Speak with Dead is where he SHOULD be super intelligent in this case. Or if you were to contact his soul. It's what his mind was like when he died. I'd imagine when you die, your soul would have whatever mind you had when you died. Resurrecting him without it resetting his intelligence to its natural sense would also make sense, but it's kinda irrelevant on a corpse.
