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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rya.Reisender" data-source="post: 6942783" data-attributes="member: 6801585">My favorite stat system so far was the one that was in Ragnarok Online:STR - Carry capacity, melee damageAGI - Dodge, attack speedVIT - Max HP, damage reduction, resist status changesINT - Max SP (magic points), magic damageDEX - Accuracy, ranged damage, faster casting, minor impact on attack speedLUK - Critical hit, critical defense, lucky dodge, minor impact on resist status changesIt was also made so that the higher a stat was the more expensive it was to increase it.The great thing about that system was that pretty much class could benefit somehow from a stat. An archer e.g. does not need STR for damage, but he needs it to be able to carry more arrows with him. Mages don't need accuracy as spells always hit, but DEX also allows them to cast faster. etc.As for Pen&Paper, stats seem rather unimportant in general. The main thing they do it increasing a modifier by 1 here and there. It seems to be such a waste to have such a granular system with 6 stats. I feel like it really only is in there because players like to play with numbers. Technically a much better balanced solution would be to just give each class like 10 subtypes and these subtypes just completely define the modifiers you have at each level.In my free form Pen&Paper games I never had more than 3 stats, which I put into the Rock, Paper, Scissor principle:Rock - Anything involving powerPaper - Anything involving your brainScissor - Anything speedy and sneaky</blockquote>

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