Stat

Characters (Heroes, Monsters) have Stats! Most of the Stats are stable properties of the character, but some are used to mark temporary conditions, such as injury. Not all stats operate on the same scale.

How Stats Work

Most stats you care about - Combat Stats, etc., Use whole numbers. Bonus Damage. Armor. That sort of thing. Lots of gear and some story outcomes, leveling up, history lines etc., will give you **fractional** stat boosts. So your character might not have a whole number there, they might have 4.5 speed, or something like that. We always round these numbers down.

Most stats are stable, set by the character's Aspects (which are often driven by their History) Some stats are specifically used to track temporary states, like Injury, Actions, Shield, Shred. You can expect these to be changed directly by events in game.

Combat Relevant Stats

Health

Aka hit points, how much injury you can sustain before you die or must make a mortal choice.

Speed

How many squares you can move in one action.

Armor

Damage Reduction for physical attacks - armor reduces incoming physical damage.

Warding

Like armor, but for magic and elemental attacks.

Melee Accuracy

Aim with melee weapons this is used to calculate your hit chance, depending on several other factors like the enemy's evasion stats, and your weapon's wield.

Range Accuracy

Aim with ranged weapons this is used to calculate your hit chance, depending on several other factors like the enemy's evasion stats, cover, and your weapon's wield.

Stunt Chance

Base chance for you attack to stunt, which is an additional positive effect (something like crit in other games, but often a status effect instead of damage).

Physical Damage Bonus

Bonus damage for physical attacks, such as weapon attacks with melee or ranged weapons.

Potency

Used to calculate damage for Magic attacks. Because magic attacks are often AOE, this is not always added directly on, it depends on context.

Dodge

Used to evade attacks by moving out of the way. Great against slow heavy (high wield) attacks (e.g. Maces, clubs).

Block

Used to physically deflect attacks. Great against light attacks (e.g. bows, rapiers)

Perception

How many squares you can see. Usually 10, until you get really old maybe.

Obscured

Some things might be hard to see unless you're right up close? Unclear if this is used at all.

Campaign Relevant Stats

Recovery Rate

How quickly your injuries heal. Younger and more hearty characters heal faster, old characters heal very slowly.

Retirement Age

When are you going to hang up your boots, roughly?

Personality Stats

See Story Role

Story Relevant Stats

These are intended to range roughly from 1-100, and are to be used for event rolls in stories, things like that.

Charisma

A measure of how favored this character is, by other people, or even just fate. Starts out higher in youth and declines with age.

Tenacity

A measure of how mentally tough, patient, prepared, and determined this character is. Goes up with age.

Transient Stats

Age

how old

Injury

Subtracted from Health to give current health. Injury heals over time in the Overland Map, according to Recovery Rate.

Shred

Your armor has been negated

Shield

Temporary health that is added to your health bar, and used up first, before accruing injury

Actions

How many actions you have remaining this turn. Reset every turn.

Experience

Used to track level ups. Normal stuff. Note that the three hero classes have different experience curves.`