On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) wrote:

>
> Is it me or does anyone else wish they had placed their starting points (the
> ones for STR, CHR, INT, WIS, etc, etc..) a little differently? My main
> curiosity is - why can't you increase these numbers with skill points?

Most RPGs don't let you change these after their initial
starting point. I believe the manual warns you to think
carefully about them because you're stuck with them for life.

> And/or why don't they also go up like your skills do as you get older and
> more experienced? It doesn't make sense to me that a newly born Bard at
> level 1 will have the same strength as he/she would at level 50. What, it's
> not logical that he/she would gain more strength as he/she got older and
> matured? Would the Bard (or any other class) not be able to go to their

Well the flip side of this is that as you go from level 1 to
25, you'd gain str and wis, maybe dex and sta. But as you
went from 25 to 50 you'd lose str, dex, sta, agi, and maybe
int while gaining wis. There are actually systems that do
this, usually coupling older (decreased stats) with wiser
(more skills) and vice versa. But that's beyond the scope of
this list.

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John H. Kim
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