<div><br>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:</div>
<div> </div>
<div>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.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>If I was going to prune Characteristics then they would be APP and SIZ. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>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.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>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.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>As it is I have added PER and kept SIZ and CHA.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Al</div>