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Array Your Stats
In Warhamster, your Adventurer has five stats: HOW ATTRACTIVE,
STRENGTH, MIND, EXTRANEOUS, and REFLEXES. These determine how
good your Adventurer is at doing things – like casting spells, picking locks, or
slaying your enemies and other pesky or prosperous-looking strangers.
Unlike other games, Warhamster cares whether or not you accidentally nerf*
your character. Your designer’s care enough about your newly created hero
to avoid all of the unnecessary bloodshed and existential angst caused by
endlessly rolling up and subsequent crumbling up of character’s whose stats
just don’t cut the mustard. To reduce this inhumane treatment of characters,
Warhamster assumes that you want the just right stats for your class, so
we’ve gone ahead and assigned them for you.
You can find your starting stats listed with your Job description.
* “To nerf” is geek for “to gimp**.”
** “To gimp” is nerd for “to make crappy”.
WHAT THE HECK IS A STAT DIE?
Wait, so do I roll that? No, in Warhamster your stat is a die! Instead of
having a complicated system where you have a stat that you roll, and then
figure out what effect that roll has on other rolls as a modifier – see how
complicated that sounds – you just assign a Die to each of your stats. To
make it even simpler, we’re going to call them STAT DICE from now on.
Whenever the diceMaster tells you to make a roll, she will tell you which
Stat is being tested, and therefore what STAT DIE to roll. Usually, you will
have some modifiers to this roll, based on POWERS, ITEMS, CONDITIONS,
and Your Level. The higher your roll the better.
UPGRADE ONE STAT DIE
When you start a new character you can select one stat to “upgrade” (this is
what makes your character unique and special*). You upgrade a stat by
incrementing the die by one size (i.e. d4 to d6, d6 to d8, d8 to d10, and d10
to d12.)
** Yeah, we know – your character is unique because of the detailed backstory
you’ve just completed in a 40 page spiral binder. Whatever.
After you are satisfied with your decision record your Adventurer’s Stat Dice
on their Adventurer Statistic Sheet.
A quick aside on Starting Stat Dice.
You may have noticed (if you are a math nerd*) that if you add up the
Starting Stat Dice and your Starting HITS DIE, that you get 36. You win
a prize. Whenever you are designing a new job for Warhamster – the
combination of these six dice should equal 36.
* And the likelihood of a math nerd reading this footnote is a lot
better than 725 to one.
Before stat Upgrade
After stat Upgrade