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Amber people stats

Started by waylandfr, March 19, 2009, 06:38:58 AM

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waylandfr

Hello everyone,
I was wondering what would be the average stats for amber native people (guards, sailor and all the people of amber).
Do you consider that they all have an amber level in all characteristics?
So our player could get their ass kicked by commoners  in amber eventually?

Croaker

In short, yes.

I have basic amber people build as 0-points characters, usually with all attributes at zero, with point value decreasing as you get far from amber, until you're in shadow and everyone is human.

So yes, they could.
 

Nihilistic Mind

I tend to give them only one stat at Amber rank, the rest at chaos rank.

As for common folk from Courts of Chaos, I give them two attributes at Human Rank and two at Chaos Rank.

I tend to give Amber Rank more potential in my games.
Feel free to scale them whichever way you think fits your game though. There is no right or wrong, as far as I know, only what you do :)
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boulet

I must say that as much as I love Amber DRPG the name of ranks (Amber, Chaos, Human) has never quite fit with my understanding of the books. I mean sure on average shadow dwellers are wimps compared to the main protagonists. Aside from that I'm not convinced that princes of Amber are superior in general to Chaos nobles.

Otherwise I tend to consider the importance of the NPC more than his origin when laying down stats. The average guard around the castle may be sturdy but not invincible. Some hard boiled protagonists from shadow could match him in at least one form of conflict.

RPGPundit

I generally assume that the average person (ie. a peasant) in Amber will have Amber stat in all four attributes.
An average person (again, a peasant) in the Golden Circle will have Amber in two stats, Chaos in two.
An average person in the shadows close to the GC will have one stat at Amber Rank, three in Chaos Rank; or further out three Chaos rank, one Human rank stat.

The average person in the shadows between that area and the Shadows Earth will have one or two Chaos rank stats and two or three Human Rank stats.
Average people on earth will have all human rank stats; and then as you start going on the other "half" of shadow heading toward chaos you eventually start having more "average inhabitant" creatures having Chaos stats until in the Black Zone and Chaos the average demon has four Chaos ranked stats.

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