Balanced Race stats

[evilnerf]

So looking at REUP, I noticed that there was a lot of races that were extra weak or extra strong compared to others. Rather then go through and rework racial abilities, I decided a more elegant solution was to use Racial Attribute dice by giving weak races a bump and string races a small handicap,

Here is what I came up with, anything not on this list is as presented in REUP
Anzati: 11D
Aqualish: 13D
Barabel: 11D
Bith: 13D
Bothan 13D
Cathar: 13D
Cerean: 13D
Defel: 11D
Devaronian 13D
Dug: 13D
Duro: 11D
Falleen: 11D
Gamorrean: 12D
Geonosian Worker: 12D
Humans:13D
Hutt: 12D
Ithorian: 13D
Kaminoan 13D
Kel Dor: 13D
Mon Calamari: 13D
Nautolan: 13D
Quarren: 13D
Rodian 13D
Sullustan: 13D
Talz: 13D
Umbaran 13D
Verpine: 11D
Weequay: 13D
Wookiee: 11D
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[Whill]

But as far as typical or average stats, not all species are evolved equally. Species and NPCs do not need to be balanced to each other, only PCs do.

I think a much simpler solution for PC game balance is to just toss the 'species typical attribute dice total +6D' rule for PCs. Just make all PCs of any species have exactly 18D in attributes, no more, no less. That way species can continue to be unequal like they should be and PCs can be balanced like they should be.
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[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

Wookiees are just stronger than Humans, period.

[evilnerf]

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

Wookiees are super strong.



Also, one thing that is nifty about WEG's D6 rule set is that a character's attributes aren't static. They're a range. A character with STR 1D has an effective STR of 1-6. STR 2D has a STR of 2-12, which means that a character with a 1D STR can easily have a better rating on a roll than a character with 2D STR.

Therefore, I don't think balancing is really needed.

You should play your game for your maximum enjoyment, of course. But, I disagree with the need to balance racial attributes.

[Whill]

[Naaman]

I am a huge proponent of story/plot driven balance. A perfect example of this is LotR: Frodo... really?

Having said that, the value of the Strength attribute is entirely dependent on how often it is required to be rolled and to a certain extent, the lethality of weapons used against the PCs.

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

As Whill already said, though, the game is already balanced. Each character race has the same amount of dice to spread around when the character is generated. That's balance.

[Ninja-Bear]

[Zarn]

I like Whill's suggestion.

However, high STR isn't the only problematic races.

Consider a Verpine. It can have up to 5D in starting TEC, and gets a +2D TEC bonus on all TEC rolls. So for it, if allowed to, it only makes sense to start advancing Advanced TEC skills rather than the base. It is cheaper for it in strict Character points, and there is no downside to roll TEC + Advanced skill rather than the basic skill in a basic skill roll situation.

So they have low STR. But they can build Power Armor. From the get-go. So ... low STR isn't that bad.

Or, consider a Yaka. Starts out with a max of 5D in TEC. And advances all KNO and TEC skills at half cost. Doesn't start out unbalanced, but the double bang for the buck means that when the other player characters have spent 25 points, the Yaka might have spent the equivalent of 50 points. (The math is a bit different, but let's go with that as a rule of thumb.)

Or, consider a Pho Ph'eahian. Four arms, high TEC, Human STR range, Human DEX range, one free action. No trouble for a Pho Ph'eahian to start out with 6D Blaster (7D Blaster: Blaster Pistol), enough in Blaster Repair to modify a 5D damage blaster (carbine, rifle, heavy blaster pistol) to 6D or so in damage, and they can take an extra shot with no multiple action penalty every round.

Or, consider Noghri. Standard 16D in Attribute dice. Going by the +6D PC rule, that means 22D in Attribute dice. That won't fly. Going by Whill's suggested 18D Attribute dice for PCs rule, a PC Noghri just isn't that much awesomer than a standard Noghri, because all Noghri are THIS close to being a PC anyways. Furthermore, the Noghri have the Martial Arts special skill, which is insane.

Or, consider Bitthævrians. STR 4D+2, but +1D+2 in Brawling damage. Which is a max of 6D+1. Pop a Force point, double the STR to 8D+4, add the Brawling damage to 9D+6, exchange +6 to +2D, and you're at 11D in damage. Not too shabby considering a Wookiee's 12D damage under similar circumstances (or possibly slightly more if they're a dishonorable Wookiee and use their claws in brawling combat).

Or Barabels. Sure, their max STR is 5D, but their natural body armor gives 'em +2D / +1D. And, strictly speaking, there's nothing that says they can't use armor - not anything in RAW the way I remember it (I'll probably be corrected if I'm wrong here). So that means it's fairly easy to get another +2D / +1D with not much more than a -1D DEX. So that's 9D vs Physical, 7D vs Energy. Pop a Force point, and you can walk up to an E-web nest while taking fire, and then rip the heads of whatever you find there - and that's only 8D damage vs 12D resist.

Or the Meris. Max 6D in DEX, and can advance Medicine - an Advanced skill - for half cost (can choose from an array of skills, but Medicine is the most blatantly abusable in my opnion), and a +2D bonus to Sneak. 'nuff said. The Teltiors aren't too shabby either - 5D+2 DEX, advance Con at half cost (can choose from an array of skills, but Con is the most easily abused in my opinion), and they're sneaky too.

Just off the top of my head, the most egregious ways to abusively build a PC that I could think of (and I'm not talking about hammering in a GPU in a desktop PC with a wooden club either).

[Mamatried]

I see no reason at all for the races to be in any way balanced, as that would be "unnatural"
Lets compare a fish to an elephant, or a human to a spider....that is the galaxy of species in Star Wars.

Now where some races may seem very overpowered, they usually have various story factors that either explains this, or gives them a weakness.

Now I am a fan of allowing even high to very high powered races and PCs in my
games.

This being said, I am working on making humans more diverse, even to 10D-14D level of stats, depending on culture and homeworld evolution.
Most will be solved by using various skill bonuses and other story factors.


Like allowing Piloting Bonuses to Corellians

[garhkal]

[Mamatried]

[garhkal]

[Mamatried]