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Giant Tourtiere
Aug 4, 2006

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Atlas Hugged posted:

The one thing I never really understood about Rifts is beyond the bonuses you get for having a stat over 16, what did your stats actually do? Like, I have a strength value, but if it wasn't above that threshold, it didn't really have a purpose other than saying what my maximum carrying amount was, and other stats didn't even have that to go with it.

That was one of the great mysteries of Palladium RPGs, to me. If you didn't get into the bonuses your stats may as well have been 3s and 4s for all the effect they would have. We briefly tried bodging together some rules for attribute checks but eventually just moved on to other stuff entirely.

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