> If any ability says, how good you are
> at something and thus "Run Fast" shows
> how good you are at running and that
> in consequence has some kind of
> "realworldspeed" BUT we don´t care
> about, in the game (for instance
> because it would gaming too
> complicate, which i think is a good
> argument) - then still a cheetah with
> a rating of "RunFast12" must be quite
> lame ,right?!
> So any "respectable" cheetah should
> have a much higher rating (if we
> assume that they CAN run 114kmh in our
> gameworld), right?!
Absolutely - a cheetah should have a Run Fast 15W2 if you expect it to consistently beat "normal" Heortlings with Running 13.
> Also i wonder how being Large can be
> called an ability of: how good i´m, at
> being large.....Does that mean Large
> is an ability how good you can use
> your large in opposition to BEING
> large. Ability versus capability?
My opinion is that HW ratings measure how useful an ability (or attribute like Large) is in a stressful contest situation. Not how good but how good under pressure.
regards,
Charles
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