[Rq-rules] Farewell to CON

[Nick.Middleton at wrsl.com]

>This is pretty much because I cannot fathom many
>situations where STR and CON don't correlate strongly.
>STR and SIZ, well that's a different matter.

*shrug* I've known far too many basically indolent and not particularly
physically impressive or powerful people who shrug off every infection and
demonstrate remarkable robustness of health, and far too many athletic or
physically powerful people who are prone to every minor infection that goes
around to fold STR and CON together and find it "realistic".

>Instead of CON I've introduced a perception
>characteristic, something which I think really is
>strongly "natural" rather than trained or a collection
>of skills.

I've always felt that the distinctions and "division of labour" as it were
between the non-physical stats in RQ (INT, POW, CHA) is more problematic
than those between the physical characteristics. Personally, if I was
minded to change things I think I'd re-jig them to REAsoning, AWAreness and
WILl power, with perception (of both the seen and unseen, and a chunk of
what POW currently covers, e.g. a lot of Luck roll stuff) under AWA, but a
lot of the force of will and Charisma / Appeal type stuff covered by WIL.
Magic points would be the average of AWA and WIL...

But to be honest, the niggling moments when RQ's model DOESN'T align with
the setting / world are few and far between and for me not worth the effort
of re-jigging the system.

>Just so people don't have to cross off CON on their
>sheets and put in PERception, I'm calling it CONcept
>for the time being.

There is of course an argument (hinted at in RQIII itself) that
perceptiveness is already a direct function of CON (i.e. a general health)
anyway... ;-)

Cheers

Nick  Middleton