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You know, I've always had mixed feelings about any stat system. On the one hand it offers rewards to people who've been around a while or who roleplay a lot. On the other, a newcomer enters a world where they are pretty much insignificant in any sort of PvP encounter. I've been glad to see that the norm here seems to be that writing ability outweighs Combat Ability in nearly any situation, but it is still pretty intimidating to look at.

I was thinking that doing away with the Combat Ability number and keeping the XP counter might help in that regard. It would equalize the characters' strength across the board, for old and new members. By leaving the XP counter, you still offer rewards for roleplaying when character's use this XP to purchase new techniques and the like.

So while everyone will be at the same CA, the additional techniques and such earned by a player will grant them more options in combat/roleplaying which will in turn help that character just as much as any CA number.

I also like the idea of a place that people can roleplay in a relaxed way. The main draw, for me, of the Mafia games we played was being able to do that in some of the games.