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So does this mean that the sum of all your attributes will remain the same so long as you play any single character? I'm not sure how getting stronger justifies being more clumsy or making it harder to cast spells...

The thought behind it is, that if you spend time getting stronger, you'll be spending less time maintaining other parts of your skillset.

Example:
You rock at football, youve played it for years. Then you start having an interest for programming, do that extensively, and get better and better at it. If you then return to football after a couple of months, you'd notice how you're not as good as you used to be at that anymore, because you have neglected maintaining your skills in it.

You see?

Now, you might say "Well what if I practice both?". If you do that, you'll gain slower in both, and loose even more in other skills, as it would happen if you practised both football and programming irl (that is, you did it with the intention of getting better at it, not just slacky doing-nothingness)


It might not be a perfect system (and Im not sure I remember this stuff 100% correctly, its a long time since we discussed it), but imo it beats the other ones out there.