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	4
Strength	Increases damage and max inventory weight	X	X	X	X
Agility	Increases chance to hit and walking speed		X		X
Dexterity	Increases chance of evasion and missile accuracy	X		X	X
Vitality / Endurance / Constitution / Fortitude	Increases health and stamina regeneration rate	X	X	X	X
Energy / Intelligence / Magic / Mentality	Increases mana and mana regeneration rate	X	X	X	X
Wisdom	Increases how much you can remember (spells)			X
Spirit / Willpower / Awareness	Increases magic defence		X		X
Personality / Charisma	Related to bartering, getting information, getting into fights, diplomacy skills		X	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)
4. The Mana World (proposal)

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)