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Old 07-03-2022, 06:15 AM   #4
whswhs
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
Default Re: Alternate Gurps - Alternate Attributes

By my count you have between 12 and 16 primary characteristics. That's just way too many. Psychologists talk about "the magical number seven, plus or minus two" as a cognitive limit. There are games with few attributes—Big Eyes Small Mouth has three, and GURPS has four; many games fall into the 5-9 range; two systems at the upper limit, nine, have a 3x3 structure, three larger categories (physical, mental, and spiritual for DC Heroes; physical, social, and mental for World of Darkness) with three attributes each. I think if you go past that you're exceeding the number of traits that can make intuitive sense to most human minds, including mine.
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