Gaining Intelligence from Int -?

[Tr011]

Look i.e. at skeletons or Arcane Oozes (MM3 IIRC), they are quiet powerful monsters in some cases, but they got Int - and thus get no feats or skills at all. Does anyone know a template or something to add Int to a monster so it can make a fun (and maybe devasting) challange for a party by having Feats?

[sirpercival]

IIRC there's an awaken ooze spell in a dragon mag... fun for giving Living Spells class levels

[SolEiji]

Celestial/Fiendish sets it to minimum 3, doesn't it?  Good low cost option...

[Monotremeancer]

And SpC has Awaken Undead for your skeletons Or consider using Bone Creatures (BoVD) instead as that template allows for even more Int.

[SorO_Lost]

Bone Knights animate corpses into those Karrnathi Skeletons. I believe those things are fully intelligent, they may not be a template though.

[Calico]

There's the Sentry Ooze template from Dungeonscape which give those delightful non-intelligent oozes INT 2.

[symisin]

feral gelatinous cube monk ftw!

[Gavinfoxx]

There's stuff like awaken construct or awaken undead and such.

[Tr011]

Wow thanks alot guys. Didn't knew there are so many possibilities to gain Int for a monster. I will make a list of these and make some nice monsters. That skeleton troll using some maneuvers from ToB will be really fun to play I think xD

@sirpercival: Any idea what #number it was? :/

[sirpercival]

@sirpercival: Any idea what #number it was? :/

Dragon #304.

How about an awakened living spell of MDJ?

[Mixster]

There's the Sentry Ooze template from Dungeonscape which give those delightful non-intelligent oozes INT 2.

This means you can train them
Props for teaching a gelatinous cube to fetch.

[Kremti]

There's the Sentry Ooze template from Dungeonscape which give those delightful non-intelligent oozes INT 2.

This means you can train them
Props for teaching a gelatinous cube to fetch.

Of course, being "Sentry", this makes odd but perfect sense!  I must use this somehow.

[Tenebrous Apostle]

Remember: Awakened skeletons get back ALL their extraordinary SQ! Have fun

[SorO_Lost]

There's the Sentry Ooze template from Dungeonscape which give those delightful non-intelligent oozes INT 2.

This means you can train them
Props for teaching a gelatinous cube to fetch.

I want to train one to roll over, and my dungeon would have plenty of stairs.

I shall call him Slinky.

[zook1shoe]

Not monk... Gelatinous Cube fist of the forest

Wasn't there something that completely changes dex from ac to con, instead of in addition to?

[Ithamar]

Deepwarden PrC, for Dwarves only.  Not sure how an ooze could qualify really.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

PAO gives the target the Int of the new form too.
The duration on both PAO and Awaken X are permanent.

Incarnate Construct template, forces an Int on all sorts of things. Nerfs others.

[zook1shoe]

Deepwarden PrC, for Dwarves only.  Not sure how an ooze could qualify really.

Template them to the proper type, then take Stoneblessed (dwarf)

The best oozes are the splitting kind 

[Tr011]

The best oozes are the splitting kind 

Wtf where is a splitting ability for oozes?

[Jackinthegreen]

The best oozes are the splitting kind 

Wtf where is a splitting ability for oozes?

To quote http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/ooze.htm:

Split (Ex)

Slashing and piercing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding. Instead the creature splits into two identical puddings, each with half of the original’s current hit points (round down). A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points.