I am some trouble understand the properties of enemy. The following screen capture is from http://j-factor.com/dredmorpedia/ 1. What are the horizontal lines beneath the character picture? What is the multiplier for? 2. Every character has two stats, Bonus stats and Total stats. What is the significance? Why there are some overlapping properties? 3. Sometimes some properties has negative values, like -2. What am I to infer from that? 4. From all these properties, where should I focus? Which one should I be concerned with?
The red 4 means 4 levels of warrior, yellow 2 means 2 levels of rogue. As Fax says here: http://community.gaslampgames.com/t...s-and-other-quick-references.2335/#post-33661 So he gets whatever stats from his 6 levels, plus/minus the bonuses listed in the top right (2-5etc) to get the total stats in the bottom right. Edit: A few discrepencies in Fax's chart. Everyone gets base -1.67 (aka your first 5 don't count) and Rogues should be getting an extra .75 since they get Nimble *and* Savvy. Editedit: Actually wizards should get .75 *less*, the rogues are correct.
Is this what you meant? Warrior LEVEL 4 Stats 8 4 4 8 4 8 16 8 2.64 2.64 2 1.32 1.96 4 6 2 2 4 Rogue LEVEL 2 Stats 2 2 4 4 4 2 6 4 0.66 0.66 2 1.32 1.32 2 6 1 2 1 Total Stats 10 6 8 12 8 10 22 12 3.30 3.30 4 2.64 3.28 6 12 3 4 5 From wiki 10 6 8 12 8 1027 12 131323 1 3 4 5 Here, some stats doesn't match up. I underlined them. Among these, Sneakiness isn't listed at the source wiki. I grayed it out. How do I associate bonus stats with total stats?
Your calculations from the Warrior and Rogue levels don't give you the "Total Stats" that Dredmorpedia shows. Lets call that "Class Stats". Add "Bonus Stats" to "Class Stats" to get the "Total Stats" that Dredmorpedia shows. I can't explain any discrepancies from that point forward.
@shaken another question is, why same properties that are in the bonus stats, are also present on the first two row of Total stats?
That's because the person who created this monster had decided to increase some of its stats, even those that were granted by the class levels already.
Looks like it lines up with the wiki; has the base -1.67 I mentioned in the edit, so most of the ones you listed are just from the wiki (and game) rounding down. The Crit and Dodge are from the Bonus stats; 6(levels)-5(bonus)=1(total)crit, 4+9=13 dodge. can't be earned from leveling up, so the Total for all 5 of those is 0 (levels) + 2or3 (bonus) = total. His other Bonus stats are included in the Total too (added to what he got from Levels).
The bonus stats allow you to customize the monster beyond just having basic stats based on class levels. This monster isn't just a warrior, it's a warrior that uses, and is resistant to, poison. Or it's a wizard, but with more hitpoints than is typical. Etc. I imagine the devs chose to use class levels as the base as a time-and-effort -saving measure. Rather than having to take the time to think about and define reasonable numbers of every single stat for each monster, you just slap on an appropriate number of character levels and only worry about further modifying stats that are really crucial to your concept. Also, if you have one monster defined, and want to make another monster that's just like it but tougher, you can do so super fast by just telling the computer to add +10 warrior levels.
