STRENGTH (STR)

Strength measures your character's muscle and physical power. This ability is especially important for barbarians, fighters, paladins, psywarriors, rangers, and cavaliers, because it helps them prevail in combat. Strength also limits the amount of equipment your character can carry.

To further explain what defines the Strength score, it can be broken down into:

Muscle - Muscle measures the sheer power a character can exert at a moment's notice. A character with a higher muscle ratio than his Stamina will look quite strong. Males will have bulging biceps, broad chests, and wide shoulders. While females don't generate the muscle mass of males, they will have well-defined, strongly toned forms.

Stamina - Stamina determines muscle efficiency. A character with a higher stamina than muscle may not have masses of huge muscles,but the muscles he has will be rock hard. Characters like these may surprise others; not because they can lift four hay bales at once, but because they can lift one or two at a time for 10 hours straight.

You apply your character's Strength modifier to:

* Melee attack rolls.

* Damage rolls when using a melee weapon

* Encumbrance - How much you character can carry

Stat Scores

2-4: Very weak - About that of a young child (ages 3-5)

4-5: Weak - About that of a child (ages 5-9)

6-7: Below Average - You lack any muscle tone, and find lifting most things to be out of your range.

8-9: Average - The “standard” strength of an adult male and female

10-11: Above Average - You are able to lift more and have some muscle tone.

12-13: Tone/Fit - You posses more muscle mass and raw strength than your average person. Your strength is often complimented and praised. Usually characters with a strength this high have spent some time in the military, on a farm, or involved in some physical labor.

14-15: Very Fit - You have an athletic body, with welldefined muscle tone and in most circles could be considered very strong. Your stamina and muscle mass are near peak, allowing you to accomplish many things that others would find physically impossible.

16-17: Extremely Fit - Your body and muscles are at their peak, able to lift most things with ease. Serious definition can usually be seen.

18-19: Supremely Fit - Your strength is one that leaves many in awe of how you've trained your body. Your muscles and build are much more pronounced, usually with some bulging.

20+: Legendary Strength- Your strength is the stuff myths and legends are made of. Bards create stories about your mythical strength.