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Deleriad said:Actually you've come across one of those situations where d20 and RQ don't correlate on a 1-1 basis. As an example, according to the Pathfinder SRD the STR of a gorilla and a goblin dog are identical at 15 while a common dog is STr 13. An adult Red Dragon is STR 31.
If you look at printed stats for RQ you find that a common dog is average STR 4, a gorilla is average STR 36 and an adult dragon is STR 70. Basically RQ STR is on a much wider range than Pathfinder.
A good rule of thumb is to find a printed RQ equivalent and use that rather than trying to follow a formula. As RQ already has goblins then I would just use the printed stats that already exist and vary them off that. So a goblin dog might use the same stats as a regular dog with a couple more points of STR and SIZ.
On a more fundamental level, especially when it comes to nameless mooks and so on you don't really need to know the characteristics because with the occasional exception of SIZ you never need them directly. When I'm using NPCs and don't need to know the details I only use SIZ and the attributes:
Combat Actions, Strike Rank, Damage Modifier, Move, Magic Points, movement.
Awesome advice all around! I needed to read this. The only problem I can see is if damage becomes too weak. You'd have to emphasize other abilities such as grappling in order to bring down a human. They can always get some kind of racial bonus to skills for this.