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<blockquote data-quote="Kunimatyu" data-source="post: 4862616" data-attributes="member: 22057">Your abilities do quite a lot in SW, particularly in combat.Strength - Melee weapon damage, and determines what kinds of ranged weapons you can useVigor - Roll Vigor when soaking wounds. (a big deal)Spirit - Roll Spirit to recover from being Shaken (also a big deal)Smarts - Smarts Tricks, which can give an enemy -2 defense or Shake themAgility - Agility Tricks, which work the same wayIt may seem like Smarts/Agility don't come up that much unless you're using Tricks, but remember that Tricks are opposed by the opponent's Agility or Smarts, so a low Smarts/Agility leaves you vulnerable to a canny foe.One of the &quot;frustrating&quot; things about Savage Worlds character generation is how darn important ALL of the stats are - a player that stacks most of their points in one or two stats will have a fairly hard go of it. Helps keep the munchkins in check a little <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kunimatyu, post: 4862616, member: 22057"] Your abilities do quite a lot in SW, particularly in combat. Strength - Melee weapon damage, and determines what kinds of ranged weapons you can use Vigor - Roll Vigor when soaking wounds. (a big deal) Spirit - Roll Spirit to recover from being Shaken (also a big deal) Smarts - Smarts Tricks, which can give an enemy -2 defense or Shake them Agility - Agility Tricks, which work the same way It may seem like Smarts/Agility don't come up that much unless you're using Tricks, but remember that Tricks are opposed by the opponent's Agility or Smarts, so a low Smarts/Agility leaves you vulnerable to a canny foe. One of the "frustrating" things about Savage Worlds character generation is how darn important ALL of the stats are - a player that stacks most of their points in one or two stats will have a fairly hard go of it. Helps keep the munchkins in check a little ;) [/QUOTE]

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