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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 5811610" data-attributes="member: 63508"><p>1) Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.</p><p></p><p>2)</p><p><strong>Strength:</strong> Physical Power and Force. The character's raw muscle</p><p><strong>Dexterity:</strong> Physical Coordination and Agility. The character's ability to accurately control their mind.</p><p><strong>Constitution:</strong> Physical Endurance and Stamina. How much the energy and hardiness the character's body has.</p><p><strong>Intelligence:</strong> Mental Coordination and Agility. How fast the character can process, learn, and recall information</p><p><strong>Wisdom:</strong> Mental Endurance and Stamina. The character's ability to withstand mental changes and be aware of the personalities and views of others.</p><p><strong>Charisma:</strong> Mental Power and Force. The character's ability to force their personality and views on others. </p><p></p><p>Decouple perception from wisdom and speed from dexterity. Makes those and comeliness based on race and class.</p><p></p><p>3) I'm torn. I want ability scores to matter a lot BUT I don't want to encourage "perfect builds", race/class tiers, </p><p></p><p>I want ability scores increases to be removed from levels. After level 1, there should be only certain ways to increase abilities</p><p></p><p>Training: After X number of levels in a class, the character gets an increase in the class's primary ability score.</p><p>Evolution: PC can gain templates like lycantrope, fey, vampire, etc to get ability increases.</p><p>Age: Up mind down body after some many years.</p><p>Permanent Magic: Kill dragon, take horde, buy rare junk, pay wizard to cast a ritual, get increase.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>So a halfling fighter could start with 15 Strength at age 27</p><p>25 years and 7 levels later</p><p>+1 Str from being a 8th level fighter</p><p>-1 Str from being middle aged</p><p>+1 Str from being a wereleopard</p><p>+2 Str from his wizard ally performing a ritual on him during the party's 5 year downtime.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>DMs can control how which ones PCs can get in the scope of</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 5811610, member: 63508"] 1) Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. 2) [B]Strength:[/B] Physical Power and Force. The character's raw muscle [B]Dexterity:[/B] Physical Coordination and Agility. The character's ability to accurately control their mind. [B]Constitution:[/B] Physical Endurance and Stamina. How much the energy and hardiness the character's body has. [B]Intelligence:[/B] Mental Coordination and Agility. How fast the character can process, learn, and recall information [B]Wisdom:[/B] Mental Endurance and Stamina. The character's ability to withstand mental changes and be aware of the personalities and views of others. [B]Charisma:[/B] Mental Power and Force. The character's ability to force their personality and views on others. Decouple perception from wisdom and speed from dexterity. Makes those and comeliness based on race and class. 3) I'm torn. I want ability scores to matter a lot BUT I don't want to encourage "perfect builds", race/class tiers, I want ability scores increases to be removed from levels. After level 1, there should be only certain ways to increase abilities Training: After X number of levels in a class, the character gets an increase in the class's primary ability score. Evolution: PC can gain templates like lycantrope, fey, vampire, etc to get ability increases. Age: Up mind down body after some many years. Permanent Magic: Kill dragon, take horde, buy rare junk, pay wizard to cast a ritual, get increase. So a halfling fighter could start with 15 Strength at age 27 25 years and 7 levels later +1 Str from being a 8th level fighter -1 Str from being middle aged +1 Str from being a wereleopard +2 Str from his wizard ally performing a ritual on him during the party's 5 year downtime. DMs can control how which ones PCs can get in the scope of [/QUOTE]
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