Attributes

Attributes
Attributes are what define your character. They tell you how strong your character is, how quick, how tough, how smart, how perceptive, and how charismatic. Everything from attack bonuses to perks relies on attributes. In a nutshell they are probobly the most important thing to think about when designing your character.

Attributes at level 1
There are six attributes in all: Strength (Str), Dexterity (Dex), Constitution (Con), Intelligence (Int), Perception (Per), and Charisma (Cha). When making your character there are two options for assigning attribute points; Points and Rolls.

If you use the point system you are assigned 36 attribute points. All of your attributes start out at 0 and you are allowed to use your points as you wish. To change an attribute score from 0 to 1 it requires 1 attribute point, to change a score from 1 to 2 it reqires 2 points, to change a score of 2 to 3 it requires 3 points, etc. So to get a starting Str of 4 it requires 10 attribute points. For level 1-10 characters the maximum attribute score you can have in any attribute is 5, so you can do what you wish with all of your attribute points as long as you don't get an attribute score of 6 or higher, and you spend all possible attribute points (for example if you have 3 points left and you have already filled out all of the attributes you want but you still have a 0 perception you must spend your remaining 3 points to get a 2 perception).

Rolling is a lot less complicated but more of a gamble. You roll 1d6 6 times and subtract 1 from each roll and those are your 6 scores that you can arrange in any order you wish (for example you roll a 6, 5, 3, 3, 4, and 2, you have a score of 5, 4, 2, 2, 3, and 1 to arrange among all six attributes in any method you deem fit.

Attributes increases
You recieve attribute points at certain points along a class tree. Each time you reach that point you recieve 8 attribute points. You can spend as many as you wish and the ones you don't spend you can save for later. But when you increase your attributes you must follow a set of guidlines. For characters of level 1-10 the maximum attribute score you can have is 5, for levels 11-20 the maximum attribute score you can have is 8, and for levels 21-30 the maximum attribute score you can have is 10. The one exception is if you get the perks that raise the attribute cap. Also if you have 6 points remaining and you want to increase your Cha from 0 to 3 you can only inrease the score by 1 per level (so you can increase your cha to 1 this level, 2 next level, and 3 the level after that).