Help me, RPG geeks!

[fossilapostle]

RPGs use a lot of different ways of expressing a character's statistics

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[cherydactyl]

Ranking (e.g., 1st, 2nd, 3rd best among player characters) (Amber Diceless)

[fossilapostle]

Thanks!

I also forgot dots, a la World of Darkness/Storyteller games.

[synabetic]

I was going to say rank and dots, too.

Maybe levels in something? But that would just be ranks, right?

[fossilapostle]

Yeah, probably. I think I've pretty much covered the major ones, as well as a couple of the more unusual ones.

Wasn't there one that had a hex system of 1-F or something like that?

[jagash]

2 more.

1) A single word, indicating the general knack where a character is most competent (wilderness of mirrors from wicked dead brewing company)
2) A size of die (D4, D6, D8, D10, D12) for both Deadlands kinda and my RPG (Spark)

[wizardru]

A pre-set scale, such as Marvel Superheroes (he has Class 1000 Strength!).

[anthrorabbit]

Burning Wheel uses a combination of a shade and a number -- black for mundane, grey for heroic, white for godlike. B5, G3, W7.

[shabm]

Note some RPGs don't make all the attributes mandatory - in systems with binary traits, you just might have the trait, or not.