MRPG Stats OLD

Mage Wars works around 5 specific character stats that are increased through leveling and through equipped items.

• Strength
• Speed
• Intelligence
• Stamina
• Dexterity

Stats are used in combat and to determine if the player meets requirements for certain items.

Stat Functions

• Strength: Determines how hard you strike when attacking, how much weight you can carry, and affects how much damage your spells do.
• Speed: How fast you can attack, how quickly you can reload ranged weapons, how fast you can switch weapons in combat, and limits your max base-crit.
• Intelligence: Determines maximum MP, is used heavily in Success calculations for spellcasting, and determines how much damage spells can do. Used also in stealth-checks, lock-picking, traps, and support magic proficiencies such as Lore and Transcription. For melee classes, a certain amount of intelligence is required to take some Facets.
• Stamina: Determines maximum HP, and how fast HP and MP are recovered. Total HP is always determined by the current Stamina score, previous STA values have no impact.
• Dexterity: Used in AV-calculation heavily, ranged attacks, dodge and evade, and also helps calculate your maximum base-crit.

Functions By Class

All classes use all stats, but to different degrees.

Warriors: primarily strength and dexterity for attack, with high stamina for AC. Depending on the goal, speed is less important. Warriors need no inteligence unless they wish to be able to resist spells.

Rangers: need dex over strength, since ranged attacks use only dexterity as a modifier. Even ranged weapons use dexterity, so strength is almost unnecessary. Speed for reloading and stamina for AC are important, especially since different armor-weights aaply speed-penalties.

Exo-Mages: need intelligence almost to the exclusion of all other stats, as their spells use an un-buffed modifier in calculating proficiencies.

Stats and Facets

Various Facets are going to have minimum stat requirements. These are based on your actual unbuffed stats and not various bonuses attained through equipped items. Some items may also incorporate stat-checks to determine if the wielder is worthy.

For the player, evenly distributing stats will give them a more versatile role, while focusing on a single stat may make their character better at a specific task("Me Warrior, hit thing with sword, hit hard!" -describes a level 88 warrior with 88 points in strength and no points in anything else.)

Stat Modifiers

The Stat Modifier determines how much the stat "modifies" a given proficiency check. A stat modifer is equal to the stat divided by 5, rounded down to the nearest .5. Or, for every five points you have in the stat, your modifier is increased by .5. A stat score of 4 gives you a modifier of 0.

Some things use a modifier based on your 'buffed' stat(I.E. the stat after all equipment and facet bonuses are taken into account. Others use the 'unbuffed' or raw stat.

Melee and ranged weapons use buffed stat-modifiers in damage-calculation. For every 5 points you have in a related stat, your proficiency is increased by x.5.

Weapon	Stat
Bladed	Strength
Blunt	Strength
Ranged	Dexterity
Martial	Speed

Calculating melee damage also uses the associated buffed-stat as well as the modifier.

AC(Armor Class) also uses your buffed Dexterity as a modifier.

Proficiency Modifiers

In addition to being used actively in combat, stats have a latent impact on proficiencies. For every 5 points you have in a related stat, your proficiency is increased by x.5.

Example: the player has a dexterity of 15 and a Special Proficiency: Melee of 10. The 15 DEX gives a total modifier of x1.5 of the proficiency, which adds 15 points to the proficiency making it 25.

Only 5 points of stats provides the x0.5 bonus, so in the above example a DEX of 14 would only provide an x1 bonus.

Proficiency	Stat	Un/Buffed?
Weapon Proficiency, Bladed	Strength	Buffed
Weapon Proficiency, Blunt	Strength	Buffed
Weapon Proficiency, Ranged	Dexterity	Buffed
Weapon Proficiency, Martial	Strength	Buffed
Weapon Proficiency, Empty-Hand	Strength	Buffed
Armor Proficiency, Light	Stamina	Unbuffed
Armor Proficiency, Medium	Stamina	Unbuffed
Armor Proficiency, Heavy	Stamina	Unbuffed
Shield Proficiency	Strength	Unbuffed
Special Proficiency, Melee	Strength	Unbuffed
Special Proficiency, Ranged	Dexterity	Unbuffed
Special Proficiency, Stealth	Inteligence	Unbuffed
Special Proficiency, Dodge	Dexterity	Unbuffed
Special Proficiency, Evade	Dexterity	Buffed
Special Proficiency, Aura	Intelligence	Buffed
Magic Proficiency, Light	Intelligence	Buffed
Magic Proficiency, Dark	Intelligence	Buffed
Magic Proficiency, Mind	Intelligence	Buffed
Magic Proficiency, Life	Intelligence	Buffed
Magic Proficiency, Earth	Intelligence	Unbuffed
Magic Proficiency, Fire	Intelligence	Unbuffed
Magic Proficiency, Wind	Intelligence	Unbuffed
Magic Proficiency, Water	Intelligence	Unbuffed
Magic Proficiency, Death	Intelligence	Buffed
Magic Proficiency, Change	Intelligence	Buffed
Magic Proficiency, Holy	Intelligence	Buffed
Wand Proficiency	Intelligence	Buffed
Scroll Proficiency	Intelligence	Buffed
Lore Proficiency	Intelligence	Unbuffed
Transcription	Intelligence	Unbuffed

Proficiency Checks

Support proficiencies like Transcription and Lore use un-buffed stats in calculating your transcription-check. This is used to determine if you can read a tome or copy a scroll to learn a new spell.

Wand, Scroll, and Aura proficiencies use buffed-stats.

See Also:

• Mage Wars RPG
• MRPG Buff Effects
• MRPG Combat and Magic