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Soft statistics are those statistics which are generally cognitive in nature, and are often used to represent nonphysical characteristics of a character. Alternatively, instead of being mental statistics, they may also represent certain nonphysical effects on a character, as with attributes such as Luck , seen below.
In 5th Edition, a character is killed automatically if the damage is greater than the negative value of their maximum hit points. Otherwise, a player at 0 hit points must begin making "death saving throws", where an unmodified d20 roll resulting in 10 or above is a success, below 10 a failure.
The Fallout games use health points, but allow characters to inflict damage to different parts of the enemy's body, which affects gameplay. [12] [13] For example, if a leg is injured, the character can get a fracture, which will reduce their movement speed, [14] and if their arm is injured, the character can drop their weapon. [12]
It allows the player to select which skills to advance by allocating "points". Each character attribute is assigned a price to improve, so for example it might cost a character 2 points to raise an archery skill one notch, 10 points to raise overall dexterity by one, or it might cost 20 points to learn a new magic spell.
Champions (1981) introduced a points-based system of purchasing attributes and skills as a means of improving game balance and flexibility. These points are known as character points, and it has become a feature of numerous later games, most notably GURPS. Usually, a player is allotted a number of points for character creation.
This point system was praised by reviewers for the balance it gave character generation over random dice rolls. [2] The stats in Champions are Strength, Constitution, Body, Dexterity, Intelligence, Ego, and Presence. Players are required not only to design a hero's powers, but also the hero's skills, disadvantages, and other traits.
Performance rating (abbreviated as Rp) in chess is the level a player performed at in a tournament or match based on the number of games played, their total score in those games, and the Elo ratings of their opponents.
Beginning in 1920, the IAAF considered, at least, the following criteria for a legitimate decathlon scoring table: [4] (1) The table should reflect the fact that, at higher levels of performance, a unit gain (such as a decrement of 0.01 second in sprint times) is more significant than at lower levels of performance, because of the physiological limitations of the human body.