[freeroleplay] Re: Perception vs. Pragmatics

[Samuel Penn]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 14:58, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 13:18 +0100, Samuel Penn wrote:
>> On Thu, May 25, 2006 12:26, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
>> > I'm not sure I could use my Intelligence and Strength of Will alone to
>> > accomplish supernatural feats of magic and psychic powers.
>>
>> Well, in the real world, no :-)
>>
>> For something like Call of Cthulhu, where magic comes from dusty
>> books, and requires little more than the correct incantation of
>> a spell. Intelligence should be sufficient.
>
> As I recall CoC also has the Power trait which is used to power spells
> and other supernatural effects.

Well, the Call of Cthulhu RPG does, but I'm talking setting.

The RPG also has Strength, Dexterity, Size, Appearance and
Constitution attributes for the physical side, so I don't have
a problem with CoC also splitting Intelligence, Education and
Power (which are the mental stats).

As I've said, my issue is in the specific case of systems like
Tri-Stat where all physical abilities come off a single Body
stat, but where the Mind and Soul are considered different
enough to warrent two stats.

If you want three stats, I'd consider Strength/Agility/Mind to
be a much more useful split than Body/Mind/Soul. If you don't
want to split Body, then I don't see a reason to split Mind
into Mind/Soul either.


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