Character Abilities

Abilities are properties of Characters that do reflect the players way of playing. Most games with character statistic use a level based or experience based system. In those systems the statistics goe up the more experience points you collect or due to levelling up. This system is not very realistic as it does either cap off at a maximum value or allows uncapped growth. In Epsylon the Abilities work a bit different.

Abilities reflect properties of Characters which are of a natural kind and are measurable. Those are abilities like Health, Strength, Intelligence, Agility or others. If the player uses an action that needs a certain ability and the action is successfull there exists a certain probability that the ability becomes better. This probability gets smaller the higher better the ability is. This yields a player specific capping and provides a nice measurement of his true abilities. If an ability is not used for long time there exists a probabiliy for the ability to decrease. Thus to keep your abilities up you have to use them. Not all abilities have such a time based decrease though.

Ability Listing

Name	Description
Strength	Describes the strength of the arms and legs. For dragons this also describes the strength of the wings and tail. This ability is linked to Skills like lifting objects, running jumping or tossing objects. For dragons this ability is also used for slashing with the tail or flying. Characters with high Strength can jump high and far, run or fly at high speed and have a strong beat. Very high Strength has a negative influence on Agility.
Agility	Describes how fast a character can attack or how well he can evade/block attacks with appropriate gears. Agile Characters find it easy to launch attacks before their target does or evading/blocking their attacks. For dragons this describes also their agility in the air. Agile dragons can pull off more tricky and dangerous flight manouvers. Very high Agility has a negative influence on Strength.
Intelligence	Describes the ability of the character to learn Skills. Intelligence can only get better unless you receive head-damage thus be carefull. Intelligence is used to learn skills and to improve them. Certain Skills need a minimal Intelligence before they can be learned.
Endurance	Endurance describes how long a character can conduct actions requiring a lot of Strength and how well he can take Condition-Damage. Typical actions involving Endurance are running, flying or fighting.
Robustness	Describes the maximal damage a character can sustain. This only describes his natural robustness and does not include any kind of protection. Whereas Endurance describes how well a character can take Condition-Damage Robustness describes how well he can take Health-Damage.
Crafting	Describes the ability of the character to work with tools to craft or modify different kinds of objects. Actions where you need a high level of adroitness with tools require a high level of crafting. For building a house you need moderate Crafting ability but for build a complex device you need high Crafting ability.
Medicine	Describes the knowledge of medicine of the character. High Medicine allows to medicate characters and to create antidotes or other kind of drugs.
Xendron Energy	Xendron Energy is the basic energy form of all matter. Each creature expells such energy and depending on your awareness you can manipulate it. It is said that with this energy supernatural things can be done but as science does not recognize this energy form yet nobody can proof it. Try it out yourself.