Creature stats

What are a creature's letters worth? Each stands for a number. The letter picks a band, and the creature sits somewhere inside it: an S on Health is a base of 575 to 725, a C 425 to 525. With a small S and a large C the order flips, 460 against 630, so the letter is not the whole story.

Trait Potential, the large letter above the three grades, is no fourth roll. It adds up the other three.

The number behind it

A wild creature starts inside these bands.

Combat Effectiveness lands anywhere in its band and stops there. Health and Agility take two more steps. A roll of the creature's own moves both ends of the band by up to 20%, and then size picks the place: a bigger creature holds more Health and less Agility. Size counts from 0.4 to 4 on the game's scale, and past either end a creature stays at the end of its band.

The name, the grades, and that roll belong to the species. Size belongs to each animal, so two of one species can differ in Health and Agility under the same letters.

The bars on the card show the number, not the letter. We have seen a creature 6.6 m tall with an S in Agility whose bar is shorter than the A of one 1.1 m tall.

The letter

All three grades roll from the same odds, each apart from the others. Where to find the top ones is under creature grades.

Levels

A wild creature stands at level 0 in each grade, and each gene edit raises one grade a level. Each grade rises to level 10, thirty levels in all, and a level adds a fixed amount by its letter, so the gap between letters widens as you go.

At the top an S reaches 900 Combat Effectiveness, 420 Agility, and 4120 Health.

What each grade does

Health is what a creature can lose, and Agility is its speed. Combat Effectiveness scales the damage of its moves, and affinity multiplies that again. How Agility acts in a battle is not measured yet.

Trait Potential

Count C as 0, B as 1, A as 2, and S as 3, and add the three grades. A sum of 7 or more shows S, 4 or more A, 1 or more B, and 0 shows C. So S, A, A shows S, and 6.9% of creatures carry that letter, far more than hold all three at S. Only C, C, C shows C, 2.7% of them. The card calls it Trait Potential on a wild creature and Battle Abilities once tamed.

Grades never look at the planet. The one thing a planet does hand its creatures is creature affinity.