I'm wondering how some of you-as players or GMs, actually describe the effect of Attributes that have large differences between them. Let me explain:
While technically speaking, none of the attributes are connected-you could easily have someone with the statblock of 5/5/1/1/1/1/5/5, for example-some attributes ARE kinda-sorta together. For example...Agility is your, well, physical agility. You'd THINK someone with a very high Agility would be at least around Joe Average(2) in their other physical stats, simply due to the work they have to put in. How would you explain someone with a 1 Body, and 5 Agility? Somehow really fast but a strong wind would blow them over?
I always kind of figured someone with a 5 Strength and 1 Body might, for example, be a steroid-head; very strong but their health was driven to very low levels through the effects of the drugs. Of course, Body has a lot to do with Lifting tests as well; the 5 Strength, 1 Body guy rolls the same amount of dice for a lifting test as the 5 Body, 1 Strength guy. The difference is the 5 Strength guy has a much bigger base; but both of them can essentially add the same amount of hits. In a deadlift, 5 Strength guy can lift 75 Kilos without a test, but 1 strength guy only 15. However, both of them can add up to 90 Kilos.(5+1=6, times 15 is 90.) I guess Strong Guy does this with his raw strength, while Weak but Super Healthy guy does it with leverage or something?
Reaction is a strange stat-it's deemed Physical, but it's not used on Cyberlimbs...natural reaction is, which makes me think this stat is half mental...or even more Mental in a way. But sometimes Reaction and Agility are tied in together-how would you describe someone with a 5 Agility, 1 reaction? Vice-versa I could see someone who could do amazingly in those Reaction tests on computers, or play those bullet-hell shooters with little trouble, but be in poor physical shape otherwise. I guess reversed, the 5 Agility person has a lot of physical conditioning for speed, but can't catch a ball if you throw it to them from a meter away.
Right now, I have a character with a 5 Intuition, but a 1 Logic. I always saw him as very street-smart, street-saavy, with a strong instinct when it comes to fighting and generally knowing what's what in the underground; but big words trouble him, sometimes he just ''doesn't get'' certain things, and the like. How would you explain the reverse-brilliant mind but a 1 Intuition? The kind of person who can calculate Pi out to 200 numbers, but might be more oblivious than a goldfish? It almost seems like some real-life scientists almost fall into this.
Charisma and Willpower somehow stand on their own, to me-even if you use them for Composure tests. Charisma is magnetism, yes-but I'm wondering how it plays into composure. How is composure measured on how socially saavy/likable someone is, or is it just a case of ''we needed a second stat to put in it?''
Again, I guess none of the stats really connect technically-sure, someone with a very high Body might well have good Agility/Strength as well, but I've seen plenty of tough-as-nails people who, while they aren't weak or slow, aren't too much more than average.
Hopefully this post makes SOME kind of sense, but I'm just curious on how some folks here describe vast differences in certain stats that are sometimes seen as ''connected.'' Even though they technically aren't.