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>From my service experience of 35 years ago in a land far-far-away:
Brute strength was less a factor in winning a fight than the durability
& stamina from having a strong constitution. One had to fight off
disease, miserable conditions that sapped you, stay awake & sane
thru long gruelling hours that tax you mentally & physically, &
other trials that demanded little strength & a great sturdy
constitution before you even saw a fight. This even applies to
non-combatants, such as nurses who couldn't sleep thru a prolonged
mortar attack & yet turned too & patched us up. (Personally
going to the wall didn't bust my composure but going to the statue of
the nurses brought back the hardest memories for I wouldn't be alive
without those women). Thus I've seen women hold up better than men.
I've seen smaller men keep going thru a patrol when the big buff types
fell apart. The nastiest fighters I've ever met have been predominantly
smaller & always faster & always smarter guys. But yeah, I want
a large strong guy dancing with the Stoner than some small guy for a
short term. So I suggest to you that realistically both must play a
part. STR & CON don't correlate but rather they compliment each
other.<br>
respectfully,<br>
Sven<br>
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Lev Lafayette wrote:
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<pre wrap="">--- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nick.Middleton@wrsl.com">Nick.Middleton@wrsl.com</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">This is pretty much because I cannot fathom many
situations where STR and CON don't correlate
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<pre wrap="">strongly.
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<pre wrap="">STR and SIZ, well that's a different matter.
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<pre wrap="">*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".
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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.
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<pre wrap="">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.
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This one hasn't required too much work at all.
CONstitution doesn't seem to get too much use as it
is.
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<pre wrap="">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... ;-)
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Quite true that...
All the best,
Lev
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