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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 2341764" data-attributes="member: 141">Let me see if I understand this correctly:Sorcerers as well as clerics would use Willpower as the stat governing spell ability.Clerics would use Willpower for their spells and for their turning ability.Wits are saves vs illusions only.Undead and Constructs have Body (unless they are incorporeal, of course), and so would have bonus hit points to their hit dice.I'm trying to think how point buy would work.  Using your conversion guide as a baseline, it seems to me you would need to have different costs for different stats.For a human to get an 18 Body, they'd need an 18 Str/18 Con.  That would cost 32 points using standard point-buy (16 points for an 18 strength, and 16 points for an 18 constitution).  To get a 17 body, they'd need an 18/14 in strenght and con, costing 22 points.  To get a 16 body, they'd need an 18/10 or a 17/13 (18 points).  A 15 body would be a 17/9 or a 16/12 (14 points).   A 14 body would be 16/8 or 15/11 (10 points).  A 13 body would be 14/10 (8 points), a 12 body would be 13/9 (6 points), an 11 body would be 12/8 (4 points), and a 10 body would be 3 points (11/8).  A 9 body is 2 points (10/8 or 9/9) and an 8 body is zero, of course.  So the point buy chart for Body (and Willpower) would be18: 3217: 2216: 1815: 1414: 1013: 812: 611: 410: 39: 28: 0Not the most even of progressions.  The score for 18 is probably inflated.  If you extend the current point buy so that a 19 could be purchased for 20 points and a 20 for 24 points, then you could get an 18 for 28 points.  Buy a 20 in one score for 24 points, and a 12 in the other for 4.  Averaged is 16, and the average of 20 and 16 is 18.  Still uneven, but better.How would you do point buy?</blockquote>

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