Ability score
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- For information on human ability in general, see expertise.
An ability score is any attributes possessed by a fictional character (usally a player character) in a role-playing game, which serve to define the character's basic statistics. Abilities are the values from which other characteristics are derived.
Ability score is the name used by Dungeons & Dragons. Other games call these characteristics (Hero System) or attributes (FUDGE, GURPS).
Different systems use different sets of abilities.
Dungeons & Dragons and the d20 System:
- Strength - physical strength
- Dexterity - agility and speed
- Constitution - ability to resist damage and disease
- Intelligence - mental acuity
- Wisdom - intuition and sense of things around himself
- Charisma - force of personality and physical attractiveness
- Strength - physical strength
- Dexterity - agility and speed
- Intelligence - mental acuity and sense of the world
- Health - ability to resist damage and disease
- Strength - physical prowess
- Perception - awareness of sight
- Endurance - ability to take punishments
- Charisma - personality and attractiveness
- Intelligence - mental acuity
- Agility - speed and dexterity
- Luck - how the universe views the character in general