Never saw any response, but had some other musings. Changing subject to use attributes, since that is a bit less general than statistics, which can mean almost anything.
I was thinking there is some disparity in the different classes and how many/what starts are important. These are my quick thoughts on the different attributes: Strength: used for hit bonus, damage bonus, as well as carry capacity. First to are only important in combat, later one is useful for everyone. Even spellcasters are likely to resort to combat once in a while, so this is a fairly important attribute for everyone. Dex: Gives AC bonus and speed bonus. These are equally useful to everyone. Con: Gives HP bonus for first 10 levels. Equally important to everyone. Wis: Major factor in amount of grace character has (Wis is 66%, Pow is 33% in terms of bonuses) for first 10 levels of characters life. Important for praying at altar can casting spells. As such, only folks using pray skill use this attribute a lot. Cha: Used for shop pricing and a few secondary skills (singing, oratory). While the shop pricing is equally important to all classes, overall this is a fairly unimportant stat. Int: Important for wizards. it is 33% of the bonus for sp (pow being 66%), used in stealing chance and learning spells. Important stat for wizards. Pow: Used for sp/grace bonuses, as described above. If not a spellcaster, stat holds no importance. If one looks at these descriptions, one can see that spellcasters have a tougher time on stats than fighters - for fighters, pretty simple - Str, Con, Dex, Cha, Wis, Int, Pow, and the last 4 could be 1 and it wouldn't hurt the fighter much. For spellcasters, this is tougher - there are more stats they care about. For a wizard, Pow, Int, Con, Str, Dex, Wis, Cha is probably the order. But because of penalties, a 1 Dex is a bad idea. The other thing to note is the relative unimportance of Cha here. For most characters, only real effect is on shop pricing, as a lot of characters probably do not use singing/oratory. Other than making some other skill use Cha as its key value, I'm not sure what can be done there - I'd almost be tempted to just drop Cha. _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
