Design: Kimberley Duval - Walmart

With a little effort and some slow leveling, you can consistently raise your major
attributes by five points at each level-up.
The basic process to increase both of these attributes by five points per level went something like
this. We almost never used bladed weapons at all, preferring to stick to blunt weapons. For long
portions of the game, we used a two-handed mace weapon, switching to Hand-To-Hand combat
for weaker enemies. Thus, for our Strength attribute, we used Minor skills exclusively to increase
it, with Blade seeing occasional use when we found powerful swords. Since we were attempting to
level up slowly, though, the fact that Blunt and Hand-To-Hand didn't count towards increasing our
level made them preferable, and it wasn't difficult to get at least eight or ten points in both of
them between each level, allowing us to consistently raise our Strength by four or five points.
Endurance was a bit easier, since Armorer was a Minor Skill. Even though Minor Skills increase a
bit more slowly than Major Skills do, if you use something as often as you do the Armorer skill,
you're going to be increasing it naturally quite a bit. Heavy Armor also went up fairly quickly as a
Major Skill, since we almost always used heavy armor and took quite a bit of damage in melee
combat. It didn't go up so rapidly that we thought we were levelling up too quickly, though. Block
is the third Endurance skill, and as a Minor Skill, we could use it as often as we liked to without
worrying about levelling up because of it.
The rest of the Major Skills that we chose were either never used (such as the magical skills; we
still used Illusion for things like Light and Mysticism for Soul Trap) or were used to let us gradually
gain points towards the next level, without going too fast, as in the case of Mercantile and
Security.