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Post by Necropraxis on May 31, 2012 21:24:57 GMT -6
Ability scores are explained on pages 10, 11, and 12 of Men & Magic. Here is an alternate presentation.  This table could be printed on character sheets, and then the character attributes could be circled, or highlighted like a bar graph, as shown above. I'd include the HTML table version too, but I don't know how to use HTML in this forum software. Attachments:
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Post by warrioroffrobozz on May 31, 2012 21:30:43 GMT -6
Very good, exalt!  |
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Post by coffee on May 31, 2012 22:28:21 GMT -6
This is nifty, have an exalt from me as well!
You could even put the Constitution Survival percentage as 10% per level, for those named. That's the way I've always read it. (I.e.; 7 = 40%, 8 = 50%, etc.)
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Post by Sean Michael Kelly on Jun 1, 2012 7:26:13 GMT -6
Fantastic! Exalt!
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Post by warrioroffrobozz on Jun 1, 2012 10:57:46 GMT -6
I haven't had a good look at your blog either, I'll have to change that.
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Post by Finarvyn on Jun 1, 2012 11:43:07 GMT -6
You could even put the Constitution Survival percentage as 10% per level, for those named. That's the way I've always read it. (I.e.; 7 = 40%, 8 = 50%, etc.) Agreed. This is the way I interpret it as well. By the way, maybe I missed something but why are parts of the chart shaded yellow? |
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Post by coffee on Jun 1, 2012 13:08:11 GMT -6
By the way, maybe I missed something but why are parts of the chart shaded yellow? Those are the character's stats, in a bar graph format. |
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Post by flightcommander on Jun 1, 2012 21:53:11 GMT -6
Nicely done!
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Post by waysoftheearth on Jun 2, 2012 1:15:16 GMT -6
Very nicely done Untimately ! A bit of a side-track, but... one may wish to have the "Lang." entry spanning two rows; one row alongside Int, and the other row right alongside Wis. (M&M [p10] says " Wisdom rating will act much as does that for intelligence.". E.g., wisdom contributes to number of languages as does intelligence. Personally, I take it to mean the higher of intelligence or wisdom determines languages known. Otherwise, wisdom is pointless other than for clerics  ). edit: corrected page number |
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Post by Finarvyn on Jun 2, 2012 5:13:49 GMT -6
Very cool. I'm pondering whether I'd want to do with with the additions from Greyhawk (e.g. strength bonus to hit and damage, thief prime requisite, etc.) A bit of a side-track, but... one may wish to have the "Lang." entry spanning two rows; one row alongside Int, and the other row right alongside Wis. (M&M [p9] says " Wisdom rating will act much as does that for intelligence.". E.g., wisdom contributes to number of languages as does intelligence. Personally, I take it to mean the higher of intelligence or wisdom determines languages known. Otherwise, wisdom is pointless other than for clerics ). Puzzled by this.  My M&M has language info on page 12, but I don't see anything about wisdom. My p.9 talks only about alignment and I don't see the quote. (Of course, I'm using my "reading" copy. I may have to hunt down my 4th printing to check one step closer to canon.  ) |
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Post by waysoftheearth on Jun 2, 2012 5:29:42 GMT -6
(M&M [p9] says " Wisdom rating will act much as does that for intelligence.". E.g., wisdom contributes to number of languages as does intelligence. Personally, I take it to mean the higher of intelligence or wisdom determines languages known. Otherwise, wisdom is pointless other than for clerics ). Puzzled by this. My M&M has language info on page 12, but I don't see anything about wisdom. My p.9 talks only about alignment and I don't see the quote. (Of course, I'm using my "reading" copy. I may have to hunt down my 4th printing to check one step closer to canon. ) Opps! My mistake, the quote is from M&M p10 in the 6th print -- from the description of Wisdom. Corrected above. The other option is to ignore that curious sentence altogether, which is what likely happens most often  |
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Post by talysman on Jun 2, 2012 13:59:07 GMT -6
The question there would be: does "Wisdom rating will act much as does that for intelligence" mean that Wisdom acts like Intelligence in general, or does it act like Intelligence in every particular?
Edit: As for how the table should be altered to accommodate that, it would be easier to leave Languages where it is, but identify it as a separate "ability", equal to the higher of Int or Wisdom. Although you seem to be suggesting that Int languages and Wis languages should be added together; that could still be accommodated with a single, double-wide Language track between Int and Wis.
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Post by Finarvyn on Jun 2, 2012 19:22:09 GMT -6
I think that rather than listing languages as +1, +2, etc, it would be better to list it as 1, 2, etc. That makes it easier to pick the better of the two numbers, whereas plusses look like they should stack on each other.
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Post by Necropraxis on Jun 16, 2012 14:09:49 GMT -6
Thanks for all the feedback.
I read the bit about wisdom as applying to prime requisites. I think intelligence gives enough languages on its own, so I don't think I would feel the need to give more.
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Good point about the languages. I originally used plusses because the number is in addition to the "common & alignment" that everyone gets. None of the other stats are cumulative, it's always the rightmost entry that wins for everything else. Will have to think on this and see if I can come up with anything that is consistent for all the abilities and also unambiguous.
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