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==Attribute Scores==
All characters have a set of six Attributes.
The value given to an Attribute is called its Attribute Score. 

The six Attributes are as follows:

*''[[Strength_(Attribute)|Strength]]'' - The character's capacity for physical might.
*''[[Dexterity_(Attribute)|Dexterity]]'' - The character's speed and coordination.
*''[[Constitution_(Attribute)|Constitution]]'' - The character's hardiness and health.
*''[[Intelligence_(Attribute)|Intelligence]]'' - The character's deductive and reasoning powers.
*''[[Wisdom_(Attribute)|Wisdom]]'' - The character's perception and insight.
*''[[Charisma_(Attribute)|Charisma]]'' - The character's social ability.

An Attribute can range from 0 to 25. 

===Base Attributes===
Base Attributes refer to the character's Attribute Scores prior to all modification, including Racial Modifiers, as created during [[Attribute Generation]]. At this point, a character's Base Attributes can range from 3 to 18 or 3 to 18/00 where Exceptional Attributes exist however.

===Attributes at 0===
A character with an Attribute at 0 cannot use that Attribute score for anything, unless they have special Traits. Attributes at 0 have special effects in addition to what is listed on their table.

Despite not being alive, many beings have Constitution scores as this still represents their physical hardiness. A zombie may be immune to poison but it still has flesh, a ghost may be intangible on the Material Plane but has a (relatively) physical form on the Ethereal Plane.

==Attribute Score Modification==
Attribute Scores are seldom permanently changed as they represent the capacity of the character on an average day. Disease, Curses and beneficial magic usually applies only a condition that modifies skill use. 

Permanent adjustments to Attributes that ''cannot'' be treated by healing or magic are made to Attribute scores - this includes the consequences of Aging and possible permanent damage done by certain Diseases. In these cases anything that is directly tied to the Attribute Score ''must'' be adjusted - if a character's permanent Constitution Score drops from 16 to 15, the character loses 1 point of Health. It is recommended, however, you record your original Attributes, however, on the off-chance that these alterations are ever somehow removed.

A characters base Attribute Scores are modified by their Race bonuses; typically a +1 and a -1 to a specific Attribute.

===Why not modify Attributes more?===
This is for a a number of reasons. Firstly, it does not represent the character on the average day - clouding of the senses is treated as external to who they essentially are. Secondly because it would require potentially adjusting a lot of Skills quite often as conditions are applied and removed - Disease will potentially have a knock on effect on many, many skills linked to weakened attributes and having to potentially recalculate the relevant skill modifiers. Finally, sometimes a change in an Attribute score will have no real effect, except potentially on skill use, as only very high or relatively low scores apply penalties to things like To-Hit. In the interest of making various conditions have more of an effect, they apply penalties broadly rather than to attribute scores.

==Exceptional Attributes==
To distinguish the difference between the peak of human capability and fantastical beings, at 18, a character develops an Exceptional Attribute score. At this point, the character rolls 1d100 to determine the level of their Exceptional Attribute.

By default, only [[Strength_(Attribute)|Strength]] is capable of becoming ''Exceptional Strength''.

===Exceptional Attributes with Bonuses===
If a character has a modifier to an Attribute that has 18, they must roll for the Exceptional Attribute if available. If they have a bonus to the Attribute, lower the bonus they would receive by 1 and instead give them a +50 on the roll. If this modifier would take their Exceptional Attribute above 18/00, increase it to 18/00. If a character receives this bonus and rolls 100 on the 1d100 and has a positive modifier or still has a positive modifier to the Attribute, they are automatically increased to 19 and reduce any remaining positive modifier to the Attribute by 1, down to 0.

<span style="color:red">'''Traditional Adventures'''</span> - Any roll that would take the character above 18/00 is considered 18/00.

<span style="color:yellow">'''Heroic Adventures'''</span> - No change.

<span style="color:lime">'''Epic Adventures'''</span> - Any roll that would take the character above 18/00 will push the Attribute into 19.

===Exceptional Attributes with Penalties===
If they have a penalty to the Attribute, lower the penalty they would receive by 1 and instead give them a -50 on the roll. If this modifier would take their Exceptional Attribute below 18/01, decrease it to 18. Any remaining negative modifiers to the attribute are then applied.

<span style="color:red">'''Traditional Adventures'''</span> - If a character receives the above penalty and rolls 01 on the 1d100 and has a negative modifier or still has a negative modifier to the Attribute, they are automatically decreased to 17 and reduce any remaining negative modifier to the Attribute by 1, down to 0.

<span style="color:yellow">'''Heroic Adventures'''</span> - No change.

<span style="color:lime">'''Epic Adventures'''</span> - Any dice roll of 25 or more that would take the character below 18/01 is instead reduced to 18/01. Rolls below 25 instead reduce it to 18.

==Skill Modifiers==
Attributes have a modifier for Skills depending on how high the Attribute Score is. This is applied to the Base Skill, which depends upon the Skill's Rank.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="8"|Attribute Skill Modifiers
|-
|'''Attribute Score'''
|''Skill Modifier''
|-
|0
| -10
|-
|1
| -5
|-
|2
| -4
|-
| 3
| -4
|-
| 4
| -3
|-
| 5
| -3
|-
| 6
| -2
|-
| 7
| -2
|-
| 8
| -1
|-
| 9
| -1
|-
| 10
| +0
|-
| 11
| +0
|-
| 12
| +1
|-
| 13
| +1
|-
| 14
| +2
|-
| 15
| +2
|-
| 16
| +3
|-
| 17
| +3
|-
| 18
| +4
|-
| 19
| +4
|-
| 20
| +5
|-
| 21
| +6
|-
| 22
| +7
|-
| 23
| +8
|-
| 24
| +9
|-
| 25
| +10
|-
|}