Ability Scores & Archtypes

[Ravening]

I'm not sure if it has been covered elsewhere. Is there going to be a link between starting ability scores and archtypes?

I'm hopeful that the answer is going to be no. And that when we create a character we will be able to assign 'points' to our ability scores for our characters. Rather than having the ability scores automatically assigned.

I'm assuming that we will decide how our ability scores are assigned. Otherwise everyone who plays an Elven Wizard would all have exactly the same ability scores.

[Onishi]

Ravening wrote:

I'm not sure if it has been covered elsewhere. Is there going to be a link between starting ability scores and archtypes?

I'm hopeful that the answer is going to be no. And that when we create a character we will be able to assign 'points' to our ability scores for our characters. Rather than having the ability scores automatically assigned.

I'm assuming that we will decide how our ability scores are assigned. Otherwise everyone who plays an Elven Wizard would all have exactly the same ability scores.

I'll have to dig for the quote, but I am 90% sure Ryan has mentioned ability scores being likely to be done in a similar fashion to point buy. I don't think pre-generated for archtype to be possible either way, someone with 2 merit badges in fighter, and 3 in wizard, would have what attributes if they were forced to be set if they did it that way.

[Nihimon]

Here's the quote Onishi was referring to.

From GOBLINWORKS BLOG: YOUR PATHFINDER ONLINE CHARACTER:

Ryan Dancey wrote:

Quote:

How do you intend to handle attribute generation?

I expect to use one of the Pathfinder TRPG point-buy mechanisms.