[Rq-rules] Farewell to CON

[Lev Lafayette]

--- Nick.Middleton at wrsl.com wrote:

> 
> >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".

I must say on the scale of the things, I haven't
noticed this a great deal. The correlation between
physical fitness, musculture and health seems strong
enough in game terms to me.

> 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.

This one hasn't required too much work at all.
CONstitution doesn't seem to get too much use as it
is.

> 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... ;-)

Quite true that... 

All the best,


Lev



 
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