B-Grade Stats & Skills

STATS and SKILLS

• Characters in B-Grade have six Stats: Body, Coordination, Sense, Brains, Charm, and Spirit. These are the innate physical and mental characteristics of the character, and "govern" certain skills. Skills are under each stat.
• Notes:
  • Stats can go up to 5+special die for starting characters. Humans can not have more than 5 in a stat. Monsters can advance beyond 5+special die in a stat.
  • Only monsters can have a special die in a stat. Humans can only have special die in a skill.
• BODY
  • This is a general indication of physical strength and toughness. It helps with feats of strength, and resisting/surviving injury. Also Threat is derived from this stat
  • Skills are
    • Athletics (includes short distance activities such as swimming/gymnastics/climbing)
    • Endurance (includes anything long distance/ marathon/lifting)
    • Vigor (determines how quickly you recover from injury, resistance to poisons)
    • Brawling (unarmed fighting)
    • Fight (using simple weapons that you whack people with. eg. axes, clubs, hammers)
• COORDINATION
  • Encompasses motor coordination, agility, reflexes, speed, and general dexterity. It is used in fighting, shooting, and dexterous physical activities. Also Threat is derived from this stat
  • Skills are
    • Dodge/Escape
    • Ride/Drive________ (eg horseriding, land vehicles)
    • Stealth/Thievery
    • Weaponskill ________ (eg blades, guns, thrown weapons, Martial Arts (only if you have bought a martial path))
• CHARM
  • This is charisma, presence, confidence, and force of personality. This is used in tests of leadership, argument, and other social situations.
  • Skills are
    • Disguise (Very important for pretending to be a human)
    • Performance _________ (eg dance, song)
    • Command
    • Taunt/Jest
    • Persuade (includes lie/plead/haggle/streetwise)
• SENSE
  • Indicates how well your five senses deliver information to you - high Perception indicates you have clear vision, good hearing, a keen nose.
  • Skills are
    • Survival (includes tracking/orienteering/direction)
    • Intuition (includes sensing spells/supernatural)
    • Spot (spotting things quickly. Mechanic: Time taken to notice something = 5 - width of set (in rounds). No successes = surprised if being ambushed.)
    • Search (used when searching, scrutinising and investigating. Mechanic: Time taken to find something hidden = 5 - width of set (in minutes). No successes = can't find anything.)
    • Ride/Drive (only flying mounts, air and water vehicles)
• BRAINS
  • This is pure intellectual capacity. Helps you analyze problems, understand information, make logical inferences, and generally perform any task requiring the application of thought and knowledge.
  • Skills are
    • Strategy/Tactics
    • Lore ________ (eg Occult, Physics, Astronomy, Gadgets, Religion). Specialised knowledge (learnt at a university, from advanced books, from a tutor, etc)
    • Languages ________ (Note that starting characters start with a HtD in their native language)
    • Spellcasting
    • Schooling - Things that you learn at school, such as maths, general knowledge, geography, history, basic science.
• SPIRIT
  • This is a measure of the character's ability to remain calm under pressure (or under fire), keep your wits about you, and not freeze in a crisis.
  • Tag skills are
    • Intimidate
    • Faith (To perform miracles.)
    • Cool (Keeping cool under pressure. Sometimes used to control monster flaws)
    • Willpower (To resist spells. Sometimes used to activate certain powers/advantages)