Attributes

Below a list of attributes encountered in today's role playing games. The idea is that we'll pick a subset of these that gives enough flexibility and allows for a nice combat system, but is also easy to understand.

Name	General effect	1	2	3
Strength	Increases damage and max inventory weight	X	X	X
Agility	Increases chance to hit and walking speed		X
Dexterity	Increases chance of evasion and missile accuracy	X		X
Vitality / Endurance / Constitution / Fortitude	Increases health and stamina regeneration rate	X	X	X
Energy / Intelligence / Magic / Mentality	Increases mana and mana regeneration rate	X	X	X
Wisdom	Increases how much you can remember (spells)			X
Spirit / Willpower / Awareness	Increases magic defence		X
Personality / Charisma	Related to bartering, getting information, getting into fights, diplomacy skills		X	X
Luck	Increases luck in many areas		X
Speed	Determines how fast you can do things		X

1. Diablo (attributes)
2. The Elder Scrolls (attributes in Arena, Daggerfall and Oblivion)
3. Angband (attributes)

At the moment, ElvenProgrammer and Bjørn agreed to have the following 7 attributes:

Strength, Agility, Dexterity, Vitality, Intelligence, Willpower and Charisma.

Derived attributes

Derived attributes are the ones that are visible to the player, representing certain necessary concepts. These include:

• Your maximum health, mana (or magicka) and stamina (or fatigue)
• Damage dealt on hit (usually comes with min and max)
• Chance to hit when attacking
• The amount you can carry (encumbrance)

Skills

Interesting notes about possible skill systems were made at skill system, stat system 2 and at the master skill list.

I think that the master skill list is still a nice proposal, but I think we should leave out the "Stat skills". --Bjørn 11:53, 10 June 2006 (CEST)