Character Stats

Archaelund ❯ Character Development ❯ Stats • Races • Skills • Traits

Archaelund is based on a complex rule-system where characters are not only defined by their Race, Traits and Careers, but also by a huge number of derived stats. The interplay between a character's Traits and those stats is depicted in the following scheme and the meaning of the individual properties is explained below.

Basic Stats

• Health Points (HP): Damage the character can sustain before being seriously wounded or killed. Recovered by resting as well as natural or magical healing.
  • Initially determined by END
  • Increased at each new character level according to the chosen Career
  • Can be increased by certain Talents and special equipment
• Willpower (WP): Required to cast spells and use some special abilities. Replenished by resting. If depleted, a character becomes demoralized, suffering penalties.
  • Initially determined by SLF and PER
  • Increased at each new Discipline rank (+rank×4)
  • Can be increased by certain Talents and special equipment
• Experience Points (XP): Represent the evolution of a character and are gained by solving quests, defeating enemies in combat, passing skill checks, and various other actions. At certain XP thresholds, the character advances to a new level.
  • XP gain is modified by INT
  • Humans gain an additional +5% XP bonus
• Action Points (AP): During turn-based combat, all actions require spending APs.
  • Mainly determined by DEX, and to a lesser extent by AWA and INT
• Movement Points (MP): Similar to Action Points, but can only be used for movement.
  • Initially determined by DEX
  • Can be increased by certain Talents
• Initiative: In combat, turn order is defined by a random value (1...10) plus a character's Initiative. The side initiating combat will get an additional +3 bonus.
  • Initially determined by AWA
  • Can be increased by certain Talents
• Spell Power (SP): Allows casting some spells with greater potency (usually the ones that roll dice for effect such as damage spells). The description of each spell explains if it is affected by SP.
  • Initially determined by INT
  • Can be increased by certain Talents
• Enchantment: A spellcasters ability that makes spells harder to resist. It only affects spells that can be resisted entirely (typically by Death or Mind resistance, sometimes also Toxic resistance), but has no effect on elemental spells or other spells that have no resistance listed in their description.
  • Initially determined by PER
  • Can be increased by certain Talents
• Max. Spells: The maximum number of spells a character is able to learn for each of the Five Ranks of Magic. Very few spellcasters in the world can cast spells of the 5th rank, and even 4th rank spells are rare.
  • Directly determined by INT minus the spell rank

Combat Proficiencies

• Light Weapons: Chance to hit with daggers, short swords and light warhammers.
  • Initially determined by DEX and STR + 20% base chance
  • Increased at each new character level according to the chosen Career
• Hand Weapons: Chance to hit with a wide range of melee weapons, such as longswords, axes, or maces.
  • Initially determined by STR and DEX + 20% base chance
  • Increased at each new character level according to the chosen Career
• 2-Handed Weapons: Chance to hit with weapons wielded with two hands, such as greatswords, spears, mauls, or great-axes.
  • Initially determined by STR and END + 20% base chance
  • Increased at each new character level according to the chosen Career
• Unarmed Fighting: Chance to hit when fighting unarmed.
  • Initially determined by DEX and SLF + 20% base chance
  • Increased at each new character level according to the chosen Career
• Ranged Weapons: Chance to hit with bows, crossbows, and thrown weapons.
  • Initially determined by DEX and AWA + 20% base chance
  • Increased at each new character level according to the chosen Career
• Critical Strike: Base chance to critically hit an enemy after a successful attack.
  • Base value of 10% (no further modifiers)
  • Increased at each new character level according to the chosen Career
• Dodge: Reduces the chance of being hit in combat. After all other modifiers are applied, Dodge is reduced by 50% if wearing heavy chest armor or by 20% if wearing light chest armor.
  • Initially determined by DEX and AWA
  • Increased at each new character level according to the chosen Career

Attack Stats

• Damage: Base damage inflicted on an enemy in case of a successful attack. May further be reduced by enemy armor and resistances.
  • Mainly determined by the equipped weapon
  • Can be increased by STR (for melee weapons) or AWA (for ranged weapons)
  • Can be increased by certain Talents
• Accuracy: Base chance of a successful hit during combat. Is reduced by an enemies Avoidance and increased when attacking from a flank (+15%) or the rear (+30%).
  • Directly derived from the corresponding Combat Proficiency (depending on the type of the equipped weapon)
  • Can further be modified by the properties of the equipped weapon
• Critical Chance: Base chance of dealing a critical hit in case of a successful attack. Is reduced by an enemies Critical Defense. Criticals deal 100...150% of maximum damage and have sometimes additional effects.
  • Directly derived from the Critical Strike proficiency
  • Can further be modified by the properties of the equipped weapon
• Armor Piercing: The amount of enemy armor ignored upon a successful hit.
  • Exclusively determined by the equipped weapon

Defense Stats

• Armor: 50...100% of this value is subtracted from all physical attacks, although a minimal amount of damage may still go through. Armor does not protect from special damage sources such as fire or poison (where resistances are used instead).
  • Exclusively determined by the worn equipment
• Avoidance: Reduces the Accuracy of incoming attacks. Avoidance is halved when a character is flanked and ignored entirely when attacked from the rear.
  • Directly derived from the Dodge proficiency
  • Can be increased by shields and certain Talents
• Critical Defense: Reduces the Critical Chance of incoming attacks.
  • Exclusively determined by the worn equipment
• Armor Training: Wearing armor efficiently requires a total Armor Training equal or higher than the Penalty of the worn armor, which ranges from 1 (for the lightest leather jerkins) to near 10 (for the heaviest full plate armors).
  • Base value determined by STR (items or effects that temporarily increase STR do not improve Armor Training)
  • Can be increased by certain Talents and at selected Career levels

Resistances

• Fire Resistance: Reduces damage from Fire attacks by the given percentage (negative values increase damage).
  • Can be increased by special equipment as well as buffs from spells and potions
  • Goblins gain a natural +25% bonus, while Batrax's suffer a -25% penalty
• Cold Resistance: Reduces damage from Cold attacks by the given percentage (negative values increase damage).
  • Can be increased by special equipment as well as buffs from spells and potions
  • Goblins suffer a natural -25% penalty
• Shock Resistance: Reduces damage from Shock attacks by the given percentage (negative values increase damage).
  • Can be increased by special equipment as well as buffs from spells and potions
  • Goblins suffer a natural -25% penalty
• Toxic Resistance: Reduces damage from Poison attacks by the given percentage (negative values increase damage) or represents the chance of resisting Toxic effects.
  • Base value determined by END
  • Can be increased by special equipment as well as buffs from spells and potions
• Death Resistance: Represents the chance of resisting Death effects.
  • Base value determined by SLF and END
  • Can be increased by special equipment as well as buffs from spells and potions
• Mind Resistance: Represents the chance of resisting Mind effects.
  • Base value equals half the current Willpower
  • Can be increased by special equipment as well as buffs from spells and potions