So I’m creating my first character and I have a couple questions. After selecting my species I am given my base stats. After recording my base stats I can use CDP to increase my stats. Now, because these modifications were made in character creation would the modified stat now be my base? As a Necrosi I increase my agility to 17 from the base 15. Do I note the base as 17 or do I note it as 15 with a mod of 2 and current of 17? I would assume the base is increased because the character sheet would make no note of were the additional 2 Agi came from.

Now once I figure that out. Are the base secondary qualities figured from the 17 or 15?

The base stats are just a guideline when creating a new character of what the average starting quality score would be for that particular quality. So when you customise the primary quality scores, in your case, agility, after spending the 35 CDP, it becomes your new base score that you will be using to create to your secondary scores, Athleticism & Physical Acumen. You would be using the 17. Hope this helps

On the character sheet, the mod is used for when further down the creation process that you pick up a drawback or an an advantage that will be affecting that stat. For instance, your Necrosi character would want to have a MESH or Necrotic augmentation added to his physically to improve his agility, it would be noted here. Also, it can be a temp mod so perhaps a wielding spell has been used to increase your agility.

Myri

Only 35 CDP to go from 15 to 17? I was doing it that to increase to 16 would cost me 20 and another 20 to get to 17.

Sorry, you’re right, my mistake. It costs 40 CDP. I had read the table wrong to increase from 15 to 16 that it costs 20 not 15 CDP to increase.

When creating a character, the Primary Quality Score base is given for each species as the starting point.  You may spend points to increase this value, or even recover points by decreasing the value.  The result is considered the new value for the Quality, and is used for calculating the Secondary Quality Scores.  If you spend no points, then you start with the base as listed.

Yes, you can also recover CDP by decreasing the value of a base stat for a core quality if you need CDP to spend on something that’s integral to your character’s uniqueness later on in his character build or to have your character’s personality reflected better in the statistics. For example, if you had a character that looked before he leaped and leapt, even ignoring his fellow teammates’ advice to heel, you would want to have his wisdom score decreased. However, you can only modify core quality scores and since his Discipline score contributes to both his Will and Wisdom scores, it would have to be Intelligence core quality score that would have to be reduced to affect his Wisdom score.

Well now that calculating secondary quality scores has come up…

When calculating the current score for a secondary quality, do I take the average of the current score of the core quality? For example, I boosted strength +3 with Gorilla Mesh. Will that strength boost come into effect when calculating Athleticism and Presence?

since you bought the gorilla mesh augmentation it provides a +3 bonus to your core quality of strength
so since strength factors into both athleticism and presence then it would also benefit those traits as well

least im pretty sure thats how it works otherwise it wouldn’t do you much good since most of the skills you use are based off of your secondary qualities

My players found this process really tedious, but no worries at all with the spreadsheet at hand (it does all the adding and subtracting, and makes it easy to see what you spent on stats).

Unless otherwise stated, any improvements (or reductions!) to Core Qualities will also be reflected in the Secondary and Tertiary Qualities.  So yes, in your specific example, adding Gorilla Mesh will affect your Athleticism and Presence…

MSL-CD - 16 September 2010 03:59 PM

Unless otherwise stated, any improvements (or reductions!) to Core Qualities will also be reflected in the Secondary and Tertiary Qualities.  So yes, in your specific example, adding Gorilla Mesh will affect your Athleticism and Presence…

All the better to make your alpha stance when you inexplicably want to pound your chest after coming out a victorious fight to insure the rest of the males around know you are the leader of the tribe. (What you don’t think there’s other unintended side effects to using MESHes? )