Int bonus templates and races
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3-5 you say? Would it be worth one HD? A Pixie get as a huge amount of mental stats, dexterity and spell-like abilities that scale with level. Polymorph, always active invisibility just to name a few.
You can get mental stat boosts by shifting your PC's age up the chart...and that's free.
Empirate
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Int bonus sounds like Wizard or Factotum to me. Unless the LA is free in your campaign, I'd recommend just playing an LA+0 race and run with that. Both Wizard and Factotum don't want to lose out on actual class levels. For this reason, I'd recommend Fire/Gray/Sun Elf, or Lesser Air Genasi.
There might be something in the smaller Anthro types from Savage Species.
Grogg of the North
Adventurer
Gray Elf from the monster manual gives you +2 Int/-2 Str in addition to the normal elf stuff. No level adjustments or racial hit die. Drow will also give you +2 Int but it has a level adjustment of +2.
Half Celestial and Half Fiend both give Int bumps but come with a LA of +4.
Half Janni is +2 int with LA +1. They're in Sandstorm. Though I think your backstory has to be along the lines of "Well, Mom/Dad had one more wish and muttered something along the lines of 'Gee, I wish I could get laid....'"
Half Dragon is +2 with LA +3.
Grave Touched Ghoul in the book of bad latin gives +2 Int for +1 LA and forces you to be a flesh eating undead. But it could be interesting. Though if you're going undead, you could just be a lich (+2 Int / LA +4)
Starting off at Middle Age or older will give you some boosts to your mental abilities but you'll be slower and less strong.
Otherwise, there's a bunch of races that give +N int but either have a ton of racial HD or a high LA.
Half Celestial and Half Fiend both give Int bumps but come with a LA of +4.
Half Janni is +2 int with LA +1. They're in Sandstorm. Though I think your backstory has to be along the lines of "Well, Mom/Dad had one more wish and muttered something along the lines of 'Gee, I wish I could get laid....'"
Half Dragon is +2 with LA +3.
Grave Touched Ghoul in the book of bad latin gives +2 Int for +1 LA and forces you to be a flesh eating undead. But it could be interesting. Though if you're going undead, you could just be a lich (+2 Int / LA +4)
Starting off at Middle Age or older will give you some boosts to your mental abilities but you'll be slower and less strong.
Otherwise, there's a bunch of races that give +N int but either have a ton of racial HD or a high LA.
