[Rq-rules] Re: Farewell to CON and thoughts on APP

[Paul Cardwell]

In my arrogant opinion (I refuse to use hippocracies
like IMHO), the proper place for primary (rolled)
characteristics is: to give variety to the characters;
and to affect the secondary characteristics (in a
weighted influence) of bonuses.  If it does not affect
these, then it should be a terciary characteristic
chosen by the player.

I still fail to see what effect APP has on anything.

In full combat armor, one is both unable to see what
the character looks like, and is going to be
considering factors other than looks (how proficient
does he/she appear with the weaponry, how
forthright/tentative, and that sort of thing).  How
good looking is irrelevant.

In civil situations, the primary concern is going to
be quality of merchandise, clarity of information, and
that sort of thing.

In my own case, my characters have generally been
quite average in appearance, but exceptional in
several others fields, and so have been quite
successful to the point of retiring from adventuring
because they good too powerful to be a challenge - and
their looks were never a problem either way.

Oh yes, and that included my early RuneQuest
characters as well as the later Mythworld ones.  It
even applies to my four foot armadillo in Toon.

Paul Cardwell

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