[Rq-rules] Re: Farewell to Con

[alan richards]

With the provisos that I've just read Sven's post about this being an
ongoing debate, and the concrete expectation that this is not going to meet
with universal agreement:

If I was going to add a characteristic it would be (and in my houserules is)
PERception. I cannot see that this is adequately modelled by any of the
current characteristics. I have read very cogent arguments that AWAreness
would be a better name for this eighth characteristic. But PER was what I
first used so it is what I will stick with.


If I was going to prune Characteristics then they would be APP and SIZ.

In game terms APP (or CHA) seem to be a subset of POW. This may not have
been the original intention but it is how it reads to me. I see no reason to
attach a game score to the physical appearance a player wants to attach to
their character.

Likewise STR can model SIZ quite nicely. In non-magical beings a given STR
score requires a given minimum mass (SIZ). If a player decides that their PC
is going to carry a few kilos of extra mass as fat, or if I decide that my
NPC is going to be corpulent then that can go in the character description
as well.


As it is I have added PER and kept SIZ and CHA.


Al
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