Say rural farmers have high strength and con, but somewhat lower on average int? What would the best ways to fix these issue be? Attaching various minimum stats or bonuses to people with various 'character backgrounds'? And his stamina and hardiness would be through the roof, simply from the rigors of his profession. A real farmer could do much better.Ī smith would have some stupidly huge strength score. The standard NPC averages with their single +2 to an ability score, as well as the rest of their scores hovering around 10 really aren't very good for representing people.Įxamples of NPC's given include farmers with strengths of only 13.

due to his lifestyle, of fairly heavy work. I'm talking about him having like 16 strength, 15+ con, etc. That subsistence farm boy over there can probably punch like a mule, haul hay bales his own weight, and run around all day and never get too exhausted a 5 minute break couldn't cure. Living in a rural environment is going to greatly boost the average persons strength, constitution, and likely dexterity.

The farmer situation brings up the second thing: lifestyle. Various species, so long as they have a decent CON score can outlast a random human peasant in stamina. Humans when not unhealthy and with an active lifestyle have stupid stamina compared to most races, but the nonlethal damage system for things like forced march doesn't take that into account. One thing i don't like about the d20 style games is that they never properly represent human racial attributes, and don't properly represent attributes from other things, like lifestyle.

Npc rations ancient warfare 2