[Torg] Attribute maxima

[Stephen John Smoogen]

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Phil Dack <philipdack at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> What do these represent?
>
>  I was just thinking as I was walking in to work, and realised I
>  couldn't justify them to myself. NE has Law of Action or Law of
>  Drama, either one of which might explain why 1 characteristic
>  can be at 14, but why do humans on aysle have different char
>  maxima to humans in CE. Is there a hidden world law at work,
>  what is the reason for this difference. And perhaps more
>  importantly, what's the philosophical justification for this
>  difference? Why not just make Char Maxima = Avg Racial Attribute
>  + 5, and keep it simple?
>

My house rules are that it is more 'species' maximums than attribute
maximums. A cosm may allow for a person to buy an 'enhanced' attribute
power that can put X more points in it. But for most species, I have
that the minimum is -3 and the maximum is +5 of the species norm (for
humans that is 8 across the board, but for Edienos it is something
different.)

The reasoning for maximum differences in Aylse was that magic infused
beings so that the maximum could be different. I put that down as
allowing for the 'enhanced' attribute power which allows for species
maximums of +6.

>  And why are player character giants metaphysically different to
>  prated NPC giants? Use of Enhancement Packages to represent
>  racial attributes to me just seems like a clumsy way to resolve
>  characteristic differences.
>

They are that way because the system is clumsy on character creation.
Without a uniform ruleset to build beings for multiple cosms.. every
cosm comes up its own way to deal with it.



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