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A [[character]] has many statistics which describe their overall power:

==Character statistics==
[[Effective character level]]s: Level adjustment and character levels rolled into one.
*[[Character level]]s: The total number of the class levels a character has.
*Types:
**[[Player character]] (PC): A character that is always controlled by a real person.
**[[Non-player character]] (NPC): A character that is controlled by the computer.

===Race===
*[[Race]]: A character belongs to 1 race.
**[[Subrace]]: A character may belong to 1 subrace of their race.
***[[Level adjustment]] (LA): Some characters have LA to balance out the additional powers they get for being a particular subrace.
**[[Size]]: How big the character is.
**[[Land speed]]: How fast a character can move.

===Alignment===
*[[Alignment]]: This is how a character reacts to things, and how things react to the character.

===Abilities===
*[[ability|Abilities]]: A character has 6 abilities.
**[[Ability score]]: How good a character is at each ability.
**[[Ability modifier]]: Abilities affect other things like skills, combat and spellcasting.
**Types:
***[[Strength]] (str): How strong
***[[Dexterity]] (dex): How agile
***[[Constitution]] (con): How healthy
***[[Intelligence]] (int): How good at learning
***[[Wisdom]] (wis): How understanding
***[[Charisma]] (cha): How sociable

===Experience===
*[[Experience point]]s (XP): A character gains these by solving problems so they can gain character levels.

===Classes===
*[[Class]]es: A character has between 1 and 4 classes. A character can take a new class when they gain a new character level.
**[[Class level]]s: The amount of levels of that class. A character gain a new class level when they gain a new character level.
**[[Multiclass penalty]]: If a character's classes have wildly different class levels the character might suffer a penalty to XP gain.
**Types:
***[[Base class]]es: A character starts with 1 base class and may add upto 2 more later.
***[[Prestige class]]es (PrC): A character starts with no prestige classes, but may gain upto 3 later.

===Health===
*[[Hit point]]s: How much of a beating a character can take.

===Senses===
*Senses: Some characters get new ways of sensing things in addition to normal ways.
**Vision:
***[[Darkvision]]
***[[Low-light vision]]

===Attacking===
*[[Attack bonus]] (AB): This is how easy it is for the character to hit other people.
**[[Attacks per round]]: This is dependant on the character's base attack bonus.
**[[Base attack bonus]] (BAB): This is dependant on which class a character has.

===Armor class===
*[[Armor class]] (AC): This is how easy it is for the character to avoid being injured by other people.
**[[Touch armor class]]: Some attacks only need to touch a character to be effective, but they can still be avoided.

===Saving throws===
*[[Saving throw]]s: This is how easy it is to avoid the worst of some special attacks.
**Types:
***[[Fortitude]] (fort): This is how good a character is at resisting poisons and illness.
***[[Reflex]]: This is how good a character is at jumping out of the way of explosions.
***[[Will]]: This is how good a character is at shaking off mental attacks.

===Skills===
*[[Skill]]s: A character has lots of different skills.
**[[Skill point]]s: A character spends these when they gain levels.
**[[Skill rank]]s: This is how good a character is with a certain skill.
**Types:
***[[Class skill]]s: These are skills which a class is good at.
***[[Cross-class skill]]s: These are skill which a class is bad at.

===Feats===
*[[Feat]]s: These are special tricks a character knows.
**[[Bonus feat]]s: Some classes get to pick a few more feats, with limited selection, than others.

===Spellcasting===
*[[Spellcaster|Spellcasting]]: Only some classes can use [[spell]]s, but spells can do alot of different things.
**[[Caster level]]: How good a character is at casting spells for each class.
**[[Spells known]]: Characters have to learn about a spell before they can cast it.
**[[Spells per day]]: Characters can only cast a limited amount of spells each day before running out.
**[[Spell failure]]: Some things can cause spellcasting to fail.
**Types:
***[[Arcane]]: Spells from a character's own power.
***[[Divine]]: Spells granted to the character from what they worship.

*[[Domain]]s: [[Cleric]]s get 2 domains, which give spells and 1 special feature each.

===Inventory===
*[[Inventory]]: This is were a character puts his items when moving around with it.
**[[Item]]s: A character can use lots of different tools and things.
***Equipment: Some items need to be worn or held to be useful.
****[[Weapon]]: A character can kill stuff when holding a good weapon.
*****[[Melee weapon]]: A character has to get close to someone to hit them with a melee weapon.
*****[[Ranged weapon]]: Ranged weapons can hurt people at a distance.
****[[Armor]]: Wearing armor helps protect a character from injury.
*****[[Maximum dexterity bonus]]: The more heavy the armor the more it hampers a character's agility.
*****[[Arcane spell failure]]: More protective armors can cause a character to fail when casting arcane spells.
*****[[Armor check penalty]]: Some skills are harder when weighted down by armor.

===Protection===
*[[Spell resistance]]: Characters with spell resistance can occasionally ignore some harmful spells.
*[[Damage reduction]]: Damage reduction is the ability of a character to "shrug off" or instantly regenerate most types of damage done to it.
*[[Immunity]]: Stops even the possibility of some bad things from happening to a character.

==See also==
*[[:Category:Races]]
*[[:Category:Sizes]]
*[[:Category:Alignments]]
*[[:Category:Abilities]]
*[[:Category:Classes]]
*[[:Category:Saving throws]]
*[[:Category:Skills]]
*[[:Category:Feats]]
*[[:Category:Spells]]
*[[:Category:Domains]]
*[[:Category:Items]]

[[Category:Game rules]]
[[Category:Character attributes]]

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