Development Info Josh Sawyer's GDC 2016 talk about attribute tuning in Pillars of Eternity

[Lhynn]

It's an abstraction.

Nope, itd be alright if that were the case. This is just someone telling you a lie and you having to deal with it.

 

[Excidium II]

A very bad one.

 

[MrE]

He left them out, no doubt about that. But, even if that doesn't make any sense for spells, it might (hehe) be considered relevant in case of guns and crossbows in a way. After you shoot a few times your muscles are going to feel it (especially if you perform an Aimed Shot, which takes more AP due to time to aiming obviously, though PoE doesn't have an equivalent), your aim is going to get gradually worse, let's say per encounter. So perhaps it should affect accuracy rather than damage dealt but there's something about it. Not trying to defend anyone, just applying a real life perspective.

It could affect recovery time.

Yes, maybe there should be a threshold determining whether your aim gets back to default per encounter or per rest.

 

[Roguey]

Nope, itd be alright if that were the case. This is just someone telling you a lie and you having to deal with it.

A/D&D's selective verisimilitude.
Pillars already abstracts a lot.
Realism was not a priority.

 

[Lhynn]

Not complaining about realism., This is not an abstraction of anything real, its just a lie told by sawyer so you think it is. An abstraction has a degree of logic, this has none.

When neither your physical build and/or strength nor your training have any weight on what you can use and carry around, then theres a lack logic, its not coherent.
Also gotta love that "realism was not a priority" when thats the entire reasons attributes exist in the first place. Its not even realistic in the confines of its own fictional world, of its own narrative.

 

[Murk]

If he wanted to skip realism he might as well have just gone for some RTS/MMO shit like "attack" and left it at that.

Though that'd contradict all the wankery about arquebusses and armor and blah blah.

 

[commie]

Might increases physical and spiritual strength and your ranged attacks are imbued with your spiritual power.

Every pellet, imbued with the power of your soul~

Neat snark, but this has been going on since forever...I remember a game from the 90's..Fallout or something it was called; had perks and things that made guns magically do more damage when the player got them or consumed items..I think it was a popular game around here...

 

[Excidium II]

I don't remember anything besides bonus ranged damage perk.

In any case, I shit on SPECIAL as a system all the time so nice critical miss there.

 

[l3loodAngel]

Well it could have made sense in FO, because your ranged attacks do more DMG, not your guns do more dmg. So you have learned to aim better and not your gun grew bigger over night. Before, you were just holding it wrong