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Someone help me build this character creation system.

Character creation...?

Work on your goddamn event.

I think you should change strength with endurance since well, you could just say physical power is the same thing and in the RO stats agility and vitality are opposites.

I'm not sure why CON and AGI are opposites.

I prefer to make CON an opposite of INT, in this case. The idea being that if you have a high CON it represents you being able to endure the elements and things like that, where as INT generally requires that you spend more time shut in learning.

Of course, you could argue STR is the opposite of INT, since STR users work their muscles more then their brains, but I think the idea of STR vs AGI is better because smaller more agile people are often not as purely strong as super body builders.

In actuality, the dead center "Standard" is probably the best out of them all, though, it doesn't give you a full range like the others do. The system basically translates to having 10 in all stats by D&D terms, then having to buy up points by retracting from your existing ones.

To boost that, you set your standard at say... 14-16, and then you can still buy down to like 12 and then have an 18. Actually that's probably not even accurate, since the points continue to cost more and more in that sort of point-buy system. XD

When I say lift I don't mean pull off the ground and hug to their chest, I mean like, able to lift it over their head or up to chest height with their arms instead of leaning it on their bodies.

The reason I would put VIT to AGI kind of has to deal with the alternative.

It makes sense to have STR and INT paired off because one directly increases physical attack while the other directly increases magic attack. It wouldn't make sense balance wise to have strong standing in both. This is a pretty general trend in most MMOs I've played. Spellcasters high INT, warriors high STR, building them otherwise is stupid.

Likewise, AGI to VIT is the same thing, except you can view them as defensive stats. Having high AGI means being able to dodge a lot of stuff, having hight VIT means being able to absorb a lot of damage. Balance wise, it wouldn't be wise to allow for both at the same time.

It is balanced to have adjacent stats though, like STR/INT and VIT would be an effective DPS tank build for a knight while STR and AGI would allow them to be more damage oriented.

But could you imagine having say an assassin character who has high VIT and AGI who doesn't need to worry about STR or INT because they can soak up damage if they somehow don't evade, have higher regen, but at the same time can deal the minimum damage DoT poison type spell simply because they can forever out last their opponent?

I know this is an extreme MMO PoV, but I think it can apply to text RP as well. It'd be like playing a paladin character who could flicker using full plate category armor on top of being able to cast minimal buffs/heals/holy damage spells.

The perfect example of an annoyingly broken STR + INT combo

Shaolin Wizard

Yeah, but that's because those systems have whole damage systems pertaining to their stat values.

Right now I'm focusing on the core elements. Like, you can have a high STR, high INT warrior type. I think they're called battle mages or battle wizards in D&D. Mind you, in D&D you have the freedom to give yourself a high CON/INT wizard if you really wanted to.