Earl F Hampton III wrote: > On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:16, john.sanchez@us.army.mil > wrote: >> Hmm. I can see him having been reduced through wartime >> activities to a 5 and 4 for STR and DEX as a temporary >> basis--he's on the mend right now, y'know? Be a good >> reason for a purple heart--but you're right--unless he >> now has a metal plate in his head from the same incident >> that reduced STR & DEX, his INT should be much higher. > > I agree, end 4 is a bit low for a marine unless they are > damaged. Hell, I've been retired since 2002 and I don't > think I'm down to a 4 yet. Though I must admit, I'm making > steady progress, "Where there's a will there's a way." Are you sure you don't underestimate your powers of dissipation. ;) >> Be an interesting backstory with those two >> characteristics-- Bruce, tell you what...how about your permanent levels are something like STR-7 and END-6, but you're still recovering from your "injuries" in the just ended war. With time you're levels can go back up to your "normal" levels. >but INT, I concur, should be bumped up. That's what a head wound will do to you? :) No, go ahead and boost that up some unless you want to play the idiot savant...probably not a great idea as Lord Percy is going to have that role nailed down...oops, don't want to tell you too much about that. :) > Photographic memory could also explain it. Of course with a > soc of 3 and photographic memory, conversations should be > an interesting juxtaposition of the inane cliche, amazing > quote and perverse factoid. > >> Unless he's someone's favored nephew. Not with SOC-3...unless Issac...oh! OH! About that SOC-3, I wonder if Issac comes from Zhodani, or Sword Worlder, space. His accent might give his background away. Sword Worlders and their friends are going to be very unpopular folks in the Spinward Marches at this point in time. >>> As it is, he can lift a can of peas off the counter, >>> barely, and gets out of breath walking down the >>> hall...and not only doesn't know which fork to use, >>> he's barely aware he needs to use a fork...(which also >>> means I've got to change how he's behaving as well. >>> I'm probably going to go with bookish and awkward, >>> which ties in with the physical stats.) >>> >>> Every other character in the game has three, four or >>> five stats well above average... > > I cheated. Why am I not surprised! ;) >>> If I play him to his stats, this is just going to be a >>> long exercise in frustration, I think, and likely kill >>> other characters if he actually DOES have to practice >>> medicine. >>> > > Guess it's a good thing they have high end.> > Which brings up another question. In CT how are stats used? > Is it the mod(5)=die adds like MT? Earl, in straight CT, the attributes, like STR, are not divided by five and added to skills. The skills pretty much stand alone with the die roll. The attributes aren't really used except for rare DM's here and there and for things like damage. I'll pertty much just "wing it." Eris Akus Moby
