Body Ratio Adjustment

I can't really say that the new system has hurt my body total (it actually increased it), but I don't think that dulls my opinion any.

Sure, Ogres might have a huge body ratio. They also require body paint, fangs, and other facial prosthetics. They ALSO get treated like dirt by a great deal of other races. They ALSO ALSO take double damage from magic, so that 1.2 ratio of theirs? Make it an effective 0.6 against anyone with a +0 Magic sword. The only racial popularity change I might see this bringing out, is that Barbarians could outshine their Kormyrian cousins as the default choice for newer players who want to be Human, or for people wishing to play a Dragoon.

Races have their ups and downs to them. Lower body ratios usually come at the benefit of superior racial abilities and class-choices, and a good deal of the beefier 1.1+ races require extensive makeup to play and have limited or no options available to them for casting (with the exception of Jaxuarians, but they're a capped race with an extremely low population in the game).

It's a shame you got hit so badly though Diane, I do think that Selendrians should be slightly more robust than their magic-focused cousins, maybe with a .9 ratio instead, but I don't know if that would really help your predicament either, I feel as though bumping the ratio up .1 won't give you that huge of a gain.

Also, in the case of kill-skills being too good now, you underestimate how good status effects are. Slay will kill someone outright, sure, but severing or breaking their primary fighting limb will generally do the job just as easily. A Stun is just as potent as any kill skill. A 1 minute Daze from a caster pretty much ensures you're going to go down unless they run out of points. There's a great many interesting and exciting ways to kill someone, you just gotta choose what does it best for you.

No system can be perfect. If it's better for most people, I think it's fair for the change to be considered an improvement.

I love the new system! yes I too have been affected by the change, but I think its whats best for the game... and I think people are forgetting that all changes are for the best of the game and its players, As I stated before this was a long time coming. But with change some will have problems with it, and some will embrace it fully. Stop looking at the Numbers and see the truth of the future of the game.

I for one am happy with this change. Yeah it did help me with body slightly but that's nothing. For once i feel as though Psions will be usefull and not over looked along with mages who do not have the fire sphere. Yeah the body drop to some races are hard but then again thats what makes getting into your characters mind that much more. As for Min/Maxing well you can do that in almost any RPG or Larp if you know the rules well enough. For the longest time I only had 5 body and that was because when I started a lot of creatures would swing for 4 damage. Even with the 5 body I never had much fear, but now with the changes going on I have a feeling ill be more likely not to travel alone. Besides having fear is the best as it makes you make decisions quicker and jump into what the character would do. We need to give this a try.

If you find an MMO or table top that has equal body between all races let me know, I have yet to find one.