Body Ratio Adjustment

I'm not quite understanding, is there a reason why crafting points are not factored into the total? They are no different than "casting points" for the crafting lists.

Three things worth mentioning, although I will not be debating or responding to responses... I just don't have time, too busy trying to improve every other aspect of the game and the camp...

1) The addition of casting points... literally no big deal. We did the math. Gideon who had 190 magic points, lost 2 body points as a result. Don't be so afraid, its not going to drastically effect the BP total of a generally balanced multi-classed character.

2) The system is simple if you don't concern yourself with min-maxing numbers.
- Your ratio is Uniquely tailored to your character
- If you buy combat-type skills, your ratio ticks slightly upward, towards three
- If you buy Spellcaster-type skills your ratio ticks slightly downward, towards one
- The Card System does all the work for you, and tells you what your ratio is.
- If you are NOT interested in totally min-maxing your body-points to a finite degree, then you don't need to concern yourself past that.
- If you ARE interested in min-maxing your body points to a finite degree, just buy as much combat skills as possible and don't spend too much on spell casting skills...
- If your character has half her build spent in combat abilities... and half her build spent in spell abilities... her ratio will be about two.
Its really not complicated, if you just understand the above bullet points.

3) We have spent the last year pouring over all of these changes and how they will effect every aspect of the game. We believe that things will fall into place shortly and the game balance will improve dramatically as a result. If we find out we were wrong about something we will not hesitate to fix it.. however I think things will be more than fine.

Thanks

Is there any way to prevent the body total from changing upon purchasing new skills, the number changing every event (or every few events) is extremely confusing

Unless you are buying more BP (In which you expect your number to change a decent amount), you will not notice the BP shift because it will be very slow and very gradual, especially the higher level you get.

So basically... one event you might have 46 BP... a few events later (at no more BP's purchased) your BP might be at 45 or 47 ... or even stay at 46. You do not calculate your body points that precisely, while in combat .. no one does... thus it really should not be a problem if a few events ago you had 46 BP, but now you have 45... but you forgot and thought you had 46... those 1 or 2 point differences are not going to factor into any problems.