[PnP] Intelligence

[Scott Adams]

Yep.  The only thing that can't be tweaked as skills per se.
The central concept of EL or "or 80" is hard to change.  Doesn't mean 
it can't like some have converted their own skills to a core 100 
value.  But if you do then it affects a great many things.  So this 
is the closest to what is ahrd (not impossible) to change.
Everything else is easy to change.





At 09:00 PM 3/14/2013, Paul L. Ming wrote:
>Hiya
>
>>But as with anything change if don't feelright.
>
>    This is exactly why I love P&P (and other well-rounded) game 
> systems. Everything is based on the design principle of a "bell 
> curve", and not a linear determination (like some, "recent" 3rd or 
> 4th edition game from some Wizards Cabal of the Shore...;)
>
>   Everything in P&P pretty much takes the X+Y / Z to get M, as 
> opposed to X = M. This produces a nice curve where a characters 
> stats will typically give them about the same capability as 
> another, even if their stats are quite different, in the overall 
> scheme of the game. When you have formulae that use 3 stats to get 
> a value, there is a very good chance that at least one of those 
> three stats isn't going to be "high"...and that pushes the value 
> towards the middle of the curve in stead of at the extreme ends.
>
>   Anyway, because of this "bell curve" base, it makes is SUPER easy 
> to modify or otherwise come up with your own values for whatever 
> you need in your campaign. For example if you need a value to 
> determine, say, "General Perception" for your game, you can pick 
> three stats that make sense and average that (say, D + I + Em / 3 
> and use it as a "stat", or maybe D + I + Em / 15 and use it as a 
> Normal Skill EL, or whatever). Chances are most characters will end 
> up with roughly the same range of General Perception score.
>
>   But I digress. :) "P&P = Awesome" is about all I can say.
>
>^_^
>
>Paul L. Ming
>
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