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  2. Dungeons & Dragons gameplay - Wikipedia

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    Predetermined array of scores: Each player uses the same set of numbers, choosing which ability score to apply them to. [ 7 ] [ 12 ] Point buy : In the point buy system, a player has a certain number of points to spend on ability scores, and each score has a certain point cost affixed to it, where higher scores cost more points than lower ones.

  3. Attribute (role-playing games) - Wikipedia

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    While a character rarely rolls a check using just an ability score, these scores, and the modifiers they create, affect nearly every aspect of a character's skills and abilities." [2] In some games, such as older versions of Dungeons & Dragons the attribute is used on its own to determine outcomes, whereas in many games, beginning with Bunnies ...

  4. Character class (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    A higher intelligence score grants an increased chance for both knowledge of spells and ability to learn languages. A higher wisdom score grants clerics a bonus to their spells, while low wisdom imposes a possibility that their spells will fail. New charts detail the effects of the constitution, dexterity, and charisma scores for characters.

  5. Editions of Dungeons & Dragons - Wikipedia

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    Modifiers based on ability scores follow a standardized formula. Saving throws are reduced from five categories based on forms of attack to three based on type of defense. Skills and the new system of feats are introduced replacing non-weapon proficiencies, to allow players to further customize their characters.

  6. Player's Option: Skills & Powers - Wikipedia

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    Players purchase abilities for their characters, as long as the character has enough points to spend and that the group for that ability is available for the class and race of that character. [2] Skills & Powers includes new methods for rolling the six ability score statistics for characters, and rules for the player to alter these scores. Each ...

  7. Character creation - Wikipedia

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    In Dungeons & Dragons, for example, non-human races typically increase one ability score by two (on a scale of 3 to 18) while another is lowered by the same amount. In Stormbringer 3 rd edition, nearly all nationalities (subraces) cause adjustments of some or all attribute scores by an amount that is usually randomly determined and has a range ...

  8. Paladin (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    [6]: 145 In the 1st edition of Dungeons & Dragons the paladin class had very high ability score prerequisites, and stipulated that only human characters could be paladins. Despite this, several Dragon magazine articles describe paladins of other races besides human and of other cultures besides the Western European chivalric romance notion of a ...

  9. Psionics (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    Psionics were overhauled in the release of the Psionics Handbook (2001) for Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition. [7] [8] The psionicist was renamed "psion" and more closely resembled the Sorcerer class in terms of combat ability. A new character class, the psychic warrior, was introduced. Psions were given several new abilities and psionic powers ...