When people play a dumb as f'ing rocks race such as fire giant but don't act even remotely dumb/simple/basic and instead start philosophical discussion and talking like a creature with much higher than average bloody intelligence.

Help 'FIRE GIANT' - Not every person in CF can be the exception to the rule otherwise there is no rule.

never talked religion or politics or conspiracy theories with dumb people? they have big words. what they say is wrong

I played Dwunot, the moronic goblin king of Silverwood.

A herald called me magnanimous, so I stated using that word all the time cause you know, that's what a king does, he uses big important words that show how great he is. Of course I always misspelled it when I wrote it, and I butchered it horribly in my scrolls (cause a king has to know how to write, that's part of what made him a king) and I thought everything I did qualified. So killing an elf was magnanimous of me and I would tell people so. So was stealing their coppers when they weren't looking. All to help Silverwood.

It's hard to play stupid consistently though, but you'll come across people that will go along with it and then it can be fun.

Their speech is not bad because they are dumb. Their speech is bad because they are angry, violent, isolationists. Fire giant adventurers (players) are naturally, by virtue of not living in Kiadanah, an exception to the rule. All adventurers are exceptions to the rule. A fire giant's intelligence is higher than an average human's intelligence. PCs are exceptional beings, not run-of-the-mill Therans.

EDIT: My mistake. Fire giants are of "average" intelligence. Still not "dumb as rocks":

Intelligence:
08-09 incompetent
10-13 slow
14-16 average
17-20 genius
21-23 super-genius
24-25 god-like

Read some of the mob descs there and it'll explain ways in which this fire giant village is unique and unlike other fire giant villages

The place is on my bucket list, along with a bunch of others. I'll have to go check it out.

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I read everything as I can. Room descriptions, item descriptions, mob descriptions. I like it and there is lots of neat stuff out there. Including items and tricks that are not exactly "PK relevant," but fun to have/know/do/see.

I was in Herald once shortly and got in by writing a report on the Halfling lands. I was going for historian/cartographer type. The player of the High Herald at the time says they were quite pleasantly surprised at the amount of content I was able to put together.

Since every race can understand another in say/tell/gtell/yell, we have to assume that the communication is taking place in common tongue, which in essence would be a second language. How well does an individual of average intelligence do in communicating in a second language? It would be an interesting RP twist that nobody would notice if communication skills of a fire giant notably increased only when talking to another fire giant.

My biggest pet peeve though, is we don't have a well defined baseline for exactly what average intelligence means in CF. It's an average of what? I think the playerbase naturally goes to assuming it is average RL human intelligence - an adult with ~100 IQ. In real life, that average is of one and only race though. In Thera, would it not make more sense that average intelligence means an average of a spectrum from orcs to elves? Imagine what real-life average intelligence would be if it was the average of all primates? A mentally disabled human would probably be above average.