VRossi

Well, unfortunatelly these break points on attributes are kind of a big deal for us. We tried Runequest before, and none of us liked the "gaps" between the attribute scores, and in Runequest it is lesser evident than in Hero. I saw that there are some rules for improving the "participation" of the attributes on skills, but using something like 7+(Attribute/2) would seriously unbalance the game for a fantasy setting on 175 character points? There is other rules that help making the attributes more impacting on the character statistics? Thanks again.

Thanks for the quick answers! I really did not saw that the skills where modified by attributes, so this is a thing. But one question remains for me, for most attributes there is no reason to have it at values others than 3, 8, 13, 18, 23...?

Hi guys, first time poster and first time reading the books. One friend of mine has this game, Hero 6th Core Book I & II, but, since he doesn't like to GM, it was sitting on his desk for a time. As he knows that I do like to GM, and like to learn new rules, he borrowed me the books for a week for me to see if our party would like to play with it. Since I only got the book yesterday, I did not had the time to give more than a precursory read on it, but one thing caught my attention: what are the attributes for? I mean things like Body, Presence, Strenght... I noted that their "rolls" are at 9+(attribute/5), and they do not increase or decrease skill rolls; also, they do not directly modify things like "hit points", chance to hit or be hit in combat, and the like. I come from a Gurps background, so maybe I'm seeing it the wrong way, but it seems to me that there is no reason to have an attribute that is not a multiple of 5, and, even then, they are not that helpful statistically, barring for fitting a character concept. As I said before, I can't see no benefit for a warrior to have Strength 17 instead of 15, and that you can be very agile and yet it do not help on your chance to avoid attacks. What am I missing here? Thanks, and sorry for any errors on my writing, english is not my primary language (and can be a source of my confusion regarding the rules...)