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I'm not sure about D&D, but I think a good example of a battle mage wold be a dark knight from FF. They have slightly less STR than pure melee classes like SAM and DRG, but their INT is still far below their STR level. I guess my example pretty much was just talking about taking stat builds to the extreme level.

I guess in the respect of text RP, it really just depends on the character's skill set. The character I'm currently working on is full INT and AGI sorceress. Total glass cannon, but pretty effective at setting traps and avoiding s**t.

Which makes me think, if they're making poisons legal for the DT I might as well make an assassin that is high VIT and AGI. Stealth abilities, poisons, and retarded tanking ability..Hell, you don't even need STR with the right equipment or skill set.

300 lb at least, I bet. Probably built like a bear, as opposed to a bodybuilder. Very very few powerlifters share bodybuilding's super muscularity, Mariusz not withstanding because that guy is a ******** freak of nature.

AGILITY - STRENGTH
INTELLIGENCE - CONSTITUTION


PHYSICAL POWER - SPELLPOWER
MELEE - RANGED


EQUIPMENT - ABILITIES




Agility - Agility is basically the mobility and versatility of a character's body, their ability to conform to different shapes or stretch. The overall speed and manueverabiliy of the character allows them to dodge more easily as well as strike weak spots.

Strength - Strength is the raw physical capacity of the character to interact with the environment around them. It represents striking power, lifting capacity, and associated things. A strong character is often larger than his peers ( to scale ) and does more damage.

Intelligence - Intelligence is a character's overall analytical ability and represents their aptitude for educational pursuits. A highly intelligent character often pursues the relative comforts of schools or intellectual forums to the detriment of worldly experience.

Constitution - Constitution is the overall health of a character and their ability to endure bodily harm. A character with a high CON represents someone who has endured the elements and a variety of other hazards. Typically the pursuits that lead an individual towards these things robs them of the opportunity to attend advanced classes or courses.

Physical Power - Physical power represents a character's mastery or potence in fighting with martial weapons or earthly techniques. A warrior character that has no spellpower will be a comparatively strong physical fighter for this reason, with knowledge of extra techniques or other abilities pertaining to the field.

Spellpower - The opposite of physical power, spellpower represents the mastery of magical abilities like spells. Generally speaking, an ability or power that cannot by mimicked physically is considered a spell, such as a blast of telekinetic force or the manipulation of fire serpents.


Melee - Melee capability is representative of a character's ability to fight in close combat with or without weapons. A high melee value reflects intimate knowledge of close combat fighting techniques.

Ranged - The Ranged identifier represents a character's mastery of ranged weapons. A character with a high ranged value is accurate with all forms of ranged weaponry they are able to use, as this shows an intuitive understanding of the mechanics of ranged attacks.

Equipment - The equipment stat encompasses all tools and devices a character uses, from armor to communications, to even lighters or matches. The higher an equipment stat the more the character relies on technology to assist them with daily life.

Abilities - Like equipment, the Abilities section refers to utility powers. While other characters rely on equipment to fill in the gaps an Ability based character has spells or spell-like ability to mimic the effects of equipment, or better. Abilities are characterized by different rules than equipment, and their effects are a whole different brand as well.


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Now, I'm looking at that and saying "Well that's gay" but, that's where STANDARDS and CLASSES come into play. Classes will be built around pre-set standards, which I am writing right now. There are going to be a variety of classes and such, but again I seriously have to stress that STANDARD is really the best in this system. Especially when you have the HERO standard, but more on that in a second.

Mariusz's body isn't the problem, it's the fact that he's had so little training for stamina as a fighter. All his training has been centered around power and moving weight. Very few powerlifters or bodybuilders train with the sort of "five minutes of hard fighting" endurance mindset that fighters or wrestlers might have. It's simply not required.

If he can spend a couple of years maintaining that size and power while developing greater stamina with proper training, he's going to be a monster in striking, I would think. You don't develop that sort of bodily power without some serious KO power waiting to be unlocked.

While the whole idea is pretty cool and it would work really well with a lot of staff and people willing to follow the standard, I question the value of putting energy into such a project.

It's complex with a lot of rules and pretty much denies people the one thing they want most, to be creative in character creation. They might as well just go play MMO at this point. I just can't imagine enough people actually being interested enough in the limitations to their own characters and a leveling system ti get advanced classes and stats through RPing, It's different from killing 1000 FLAME YETIS.

Ohmmmmmmmm.

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Ohmmmmmmmm.

I suppose that's a good point. It's a lot better than the vague power level system with 5 ranks that are still very subjective and I don't think it's ever going to catch on in the RP community to compare power levels to benchmarks in widely popular media.

It just does look bad when you get to higher tier characters since well, they usually are high in most of those stats compared to characters just starting out. With out a level comparison to explain why then some people might be like "wut?". Then how do you account for racial traits that just set whatever character higher than the base human I imagine you're starting from?

Like, do you plan on defining specific racial bonuses to apply to pretty much most popular race decisions? So like vampires, demons, lycan, etc.