I'm the GM and one of my players dumpstatted his intelligence for his CE orc barbarian (true primitive), after reading the rules only briefly he declared he had a bone greataxe, I substituted slashing for bludgeoning damage without telling him, was I being fair?
on a secondary note, the middle aged Summoner (synthesist) has been poisoned by a monitor lizard, he knows he failed his fortitude save in combat, but ignored my declaring his ability damage at 1 minute by talking with another player, should I track this for him? I gotta keep a straight face while he takes the dex damage that won't heal naturally.
(the orc barbarian heard me but wont remind the synthesist because, he regards the the summoner as broken, he's CE, and dumped his Int)