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The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

@Father Hank, Niernen's approved, go add her.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

Thanks for your interest, @Greenie, and good luck with your other RPs.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

In case you guys need clarification on attributes, I've compiled their descriptions in all relevant TES games.

Please use your own discretion when choosing attributes. Pick what is relevant in terms of storytelling instead of maximizing stats.

Arena

Strength governs how strong you are. It affects how much damage you do in melee combat, how much you can carry before becoming over-encumbered, how far you can jump, and, when added to Endurance, is a factor in determining your maximum Fatigue. It is essential that any warrior-class character has a high Strength rating, but Agility is more important, since you need to actually hit an enemy to deal the bonus damage. Encumbrance is only taken into account when attempting to add an item to your inventory. Spellcasters can temporarily fortify their strength to pick up an item and will not be hindered when the effect wears off.

Increases:

Melee damage
Maximum Fatigue
Jump distance
Maximum carry weight

Intelligence governs how smart you are. It affects the total amount of spell points you get to cast spells with, your chances of negotiating for better prices for items and other purchases, and your chances of picking open a lock. It is essential that any mage- or thief-class character has a high Intelligence rating.

Increases:

Maximum spell points
Negotiating skills when buying or selling
Chance of picking open a lock

Willpower governs how mentally tough you are. It affects your ability to withstand or resist spells, as well as your ability to negotiate successfully with shop-owners and inn-keepers. It is vital that any character wishing to be adequately defended against spells has a high Willpower rating.

Increases:

Resistance to Enemy Spells
Negotiating skills when buying or selling

Agility governs how nimble you are. It affects your chances of hitting an enemy with a melee weapon, your chances of getting hit in combat, and your chances of successfully stealing an item or picking a lock. It is essential for every class to have a high Agility rating, because of the substantial bonuses to Armor Rating, "To Hit", and "To Defend".

Increases:

Hit chance in combat
Resistance to physical damage
Dodge chance of enemy attacks and spells
Chance of picking open a lock
Chance of stealing an item

Speed governs how fast you are. It affects your movement rate in and out of combat, and the fire rate if you are using a missile weapon (i.e. bow-and-arrow). It is important for Archers and anyone else wishing to master the bow to have a high Speed rating, but all others may wish to spend their points elsewhere.

Increases:

Movement speed
Speed of ranged attacks, i.e: bows and arrows

Endurance governs how healthy you are. It affects your Health, your healing rate, your resistance to poisons and diseases, and, when added to Strength, is a factor in determining your Fatigue.

Increases:

Maximum health
Amount of health regained per hour when resting
Maximum Fatigue
Poison- and disease-resistance

Personality governs how charming and socially acceptable you are. It affects your ability to barter with merchants that you may meet in your travels. It is essential for any person wishing to earn the greatest profit from their transactions to have a high Personality rating.

Increases:

Negotiating skills when buying or selling

Daggerfall

Strength governs encumbrance, weapon damage and the ease of increasing strength-related skills.

Strength modifies the amount of damage inflicted using hand-to-hand or melee weapons. A higher value results in greater damage.
Strength modifies your maximum encumbrance, or the total weight of items you are able to carry.

Intelligence governs total magic potential and the ease of increasing intelligence-related skills.

Magic potential is your maximum amount of spell points available for casting.

Willpower governs resistance to spell effects and the ease of increasing willpower-related skills.

Willpower modifies magic defense as either a penalty or bonus based on Enumeration score.

Agility governs ability to hit a target, to avoid getting hit, and the ease of increasing agility-related skills.

Endurance governs hit points, healing rate, resistance to poisons and diseases, and fatigue.

Endurance also affects magic regeneration while resting.
Endurance affects the amount of hit points you gain with each level.

Personality governs the ease of increasing personality-related skills.

Personality affects how NPCs react to your character.

Speed governs movement rate, missile reloading time, and all speed-related skills.

Speed also affects weapon swing speed.

Morrowind

Agility controls your chance to hit enemies, your chance to dodge their attacks, and your maximum Fatigue. Also reduces your chance to get knocked down in combat.

Governing Attribute for Block, Light Armor, Marksman, and Sneak. It affects:

Your ability to successfully hit enemies with a weapon and dodge their attacks (not magic).
Your ability to use the Sneak (including pickpocketing), Security, Acrobatics and Block skills.
Your maximum Fatigue.
Your resistance against staggering.

Endurance controls your starting and maximum Health, and your maximum Fatigue. Also slows down fatigue loss while running, and while fighting.

Governing Attribute for Heavy Armor, Medium Armor, and Spear. It affects:

How much maximum Health you have.
How much maximum Fatigue you have.

Intelligence controls your maximum Magicka, and the amount of magicka gained per hour of sleep.

Governing Attribute for Alchemy, Conjuration, Enchant, and Security. It determines your base amount of Magicka.

Both Enchanting and Alchemy are enhanced by higher Intelligence.

Personality controls how much people like you, and the prices you get at vendors.

Governing Attribute for Illusion, Mercantile, and Speechcraft. It affects:

Your base disposition with NPCs.
Your ability to persuade people by any means.
The ability to bargain, in tandem with the Mercantile skill.

Speed controls your rate of movement when walking, running, swimming, or levitating.

Governing Attribute for Athletics, Hand-to-hand, Short Blade and Unarmored. It affects:

How fast you move in the game world, which includes swimming.

Strength controls the damage you cause with weapons, as well as how much you can carry. It also helps determine your maximum Fatigue and starting Health. Strength also factors into how your weapon durability degrades on each successful hit: Higher strength means higher weapon degradation.

Governing Attribute for Acrobatics, Armorer, Axe, Blunt Weapon, and Long Blade. It affects:

How much damage you do with weapons, including Marksman weapons, and how much damage you do to your own weapons when you perform a successful attack as a result.
How much you can carry. This, in turn, affects your speed and jump height.
Your starting Health

Willpower controls your odds of success at spellcasting and your chance to resist Magicka. It also determines your maximum Fatigue.

Governing Attribute for Alteration, Destruction, Mysticism, and Restoration. It affects:

Your ability to successfully cast spells of any College. This includes Conjuration and Illusion, even though they are 'governed' by Intelligence and Personality respectively.
Your ability to innately resist Paralyze and Silence magic.
Your maximum Fatigue.

Oblivion

Agility affects your total Fatigue, damage dealt by ranged weapons, and your steadiness in combat.

Governing attribute for Marksman, Security, and Sneak. It affects:

Chance to avoid being 'staggered' by enemy attacks.
Damage delivered by bows.

Endurance affects your total Fatigue, as well as your starting health and your health gain upon leveling up.

Governing attribute for Block, Armorer, and Heavy Armor. It affects:

Base health
Health increase on leveling
The duration that your character may breathe underwater for before drowning.

Intelligence affects your total Magicka.

Governing attribute for Conjuration, Mysticism, and Alchemy. It affects:

Base Magicka

Personality affects your ability to gain information and better prices from NPCs.

Governing attribute for Mercantile, Speechcraft, and Illusion. It affects the Disposition of NPCs and Creatures. Therefore, Personality allows your character:

To more easily obtain meaningful information from NPCs.
To obtain better prices from merchants through haggling.
To avoid combat more often. Fewer aggressive beings will attack you and more will accept yields.

Speed affects how fast you move and the length of your jumps.

Governing attribute for Acrobatics, Athletics, and Light Armor. It affects:

Speed of travel.
The length of your jumps (it does not affect jump height).

Strength affects your total encumbrance, your total Fatigue and the damage done by melee attacks.

Governing attribute for Blunt, Blade, and Hand to Hand. It affects:

Encumbrance
Damage dealt with a melee weapon

Willpower affects the rate at which Magicka regenerates, as well as your total Fatigue.

Governing attribute for Alteration, Destruction, and Restoration. It affects:

Regeneration rate of Magicka

Legends

*Speed and Personality are not present in Legends.

Strength seeks victory through might. You want to attack the enemy head-on, cutting them down before they can use their fancy tricks. Strength actions are ideal for smashing enemies and clearing the way for bruisers.

When you use Intelligence, you rely on trickery and magic to defeat your foes. The physical strength of Intelligence creatures is almost beside the point – you can always cast a spell, equip a weapon, or conjure an Atronach to even the odds. Intelligence actions are ideal for raining destruction on the battlefield and sculpting long-term plans.

When you use Willpower, you rely on unity and force of spirit to overcome your foes. Willpower is adept at amassing large armies, erecting strong defenses, and bolstering its forces with magic. Its actions are the best at destroying enemy creatures or bending them to your will.

Agility creatures prefer to avoid fair fights, using poison and precision to take down larger foes or cover and movement abilities to sneak past them entirely.

Endurance will overwhelm your enemy with sheer indomitability. It boasts the biggest creatures in Tamriel with everything from relentless hordes of undead to massive giants and trolls. And with strong guards, potent healing actions, and the ability to increase its Magicka, Endurance has the tools to ensure its monsters come out to play.

Fatigue is the same as stamina.

Attributes do not exist in Skyrim and ESO.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

Announcement: We will be temporarily limiting each player to only one character. Existing and returning second characters are exempt. This is done to prevent new players from being overwhelmed, and players with one character can create their second one once we've reached a steady pace. If you are in the process of creating a second character, please do not submit it at this moment, and hold onto it until further notice.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

@Spoopy Scary

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

@POOHEAD189

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

@Spoopy Scary, Dar'Jzo was an enjoyable read; you've put in a lot of effort for sure. With that said, my co-GMs and I still have a few issues.

1. Going from the local recruiter to the Mane is quite a jump. Your character could have contacted the regional military commander in between.

2. I appreciate the volume of content, however, the bio ended at "Winterhold was supposedly destroyed last month". I need to know how Dar'Jzo got from that ship to our group in Solitude.

3. Nashav, really? Better name pls.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

@POOHEAD189, I don't see anything new for Dax, and only one sentence added for Alim. Alim's acceptable, since he entered towards the end, but Dax is not. Please add Dax's chapter 1 experience into his bio.

Also, you need to specify which attribute is major and which is minor.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

In my defense though, if GC made an overt Reaper reference IC, I could probably get away with it. :P

@Spoopy Scary

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 2 (Completed)

@Greenie, archers, 1H swordsmen and destruction mages were oversaturated in chapter 1, and are still going to be very popular. Some underrated picks are 2H axe, pickpocketing, lockpicking, athletics, provisioning and alteration.