Shattered Kingdoms

Specifically to the parry and enhanced parry skills, are these strength rolls or dexterity rolls? I'm also in the crowd that's always thought they were strength rolls.

Everything you mentioned here makes sense, and thank you for the clarification.

There is only one thing that is throwing me off, and that is from what was previously mentioned. This is what I mean, is it rolled together? Or is this still two separate things under the same name?

I originally wrote it was only Dex, but the answer is it depends. Dex does always applies to any kind of parry. But str will also factor in for melee weapons.

To be honest, the code is quite complex due to having been tweaked many times. I have been reviewing the code again in light of these questions to make sure I am still answering accuractely. In that process of "rolling things together into one attribute", things were somewhat simplified but I can see now that it does not fully represent my intent.

For example, while I think that strength should not be involved at all in accuracy with a finesse weapon, it turns out that there is a strength bonus still tucked away in the calculation. So if anything, this conversation has me mulling a code review to make finesse weapons more like ranged weapons than they actually are right now.

Thanks for the review and answers. Your last two posts are more consistent with the conventional wisdom, that high strength swashbucklers perform better on defense and offense than low strength ones. Sounds complicated enough code-wise that I wouldn't want to speculate as to precisely why that is.