New World of Darkness core book free on DTRPG!

[Crothian]

The only semi-practical reason that I can think of is that it is very quick to fill in the base dots. After that however I can see no reason at all...

Writing a number goes pretty fast too

 

[painandgreed]

I'd say because it's more aesthetically pleasing to deal with dots than the small range of numbers 1-5. But more than anything, it's probably just a convention that stuck around from character creation that stuck around because you wouldn't have to erase stuff on the character sheet when buying new stats.

 

[Crothian]

Because it's cool.

Then cool has really taken a nose dive......

 

[Voadam]

If you ever wanted to check out the nWoD rules, there's the opportunity to do that for free now! Look here !

Thanks for the heads up, I'll probably pick it up this weekend.

 

[Turjan]

I'd say because it's more aesthetically pleasing to deal with dots than the small range of numbers 1-5.

I say: Mark Rein•Hagen is the culprit! He just likes dots .

 

[Turjan]

Thanks for the heads up, I'll probably pick it up this weekend.

You're welcome ! And thank you for the first answer that isn't related to dots !

 

[buzz]

Because it doesn't make your character sheet look like an accounting record.

I think this was the primary reasoning behind the dots. The whole point of StoryTeller back in the day was emphasis on immersion and, well, storytelling, and a de-emphasis on math and rules.

Ergo, the character sheets use dots for stats so that you essentially have a visual bar graph of your character's capabilties. You don't compare numbers, you just look at which bar of dots is logner or shorter. It doesn't get rid of the numbers, it just hides them.

 

[painandgreed]

Anyway, I find it really funny that a thread about getting the current core book of the second best selling roleplaying game for free ends up with a discussion about 'dots' only .

Do you really want it to go elsewhere and have somebody say something that somebody else will take offence to only to have them start a war of one line arguements back and forth till the moderators close the thread? ;-)

 

[Henry]

I think this was the primary reasoning behind the dots. The whole point of StoryTeller back in the day was emphasis on immersion and, well, storytelling, and a de-emphasis on math and rules.

A man who spells his last name Rein*hagen went with dots for the scores. This is not lost on me.

 

[Crothian]

Do you really want it to go elsewhere and have somebody say something that somebody else will take offence to only to have them start a war of one line arguements back and forth till the moderators close the thread? ;-)

I think it might be possible to talk about a game without offending people....least that's what my mom says.....