Ability Modifier

Within Arelith a variety of pre-requisites and conditions have dependencies on ability modifiers.

This is further subcategorized into 2 types of "checks", depending on how that particular condition is being managed.

1. Soft Modifier Check: By convention, a Soft Modifier check examines the enhanced ability modifier. This is the base ability score modifier (what you see when you examine the character on the character selection screen prior to logging into the server with that character) plus all ability modifiers added by items, spells, abilities. On Arelith the "soft ability" is capped at +12 over the base ability score, which in turn caps the modifier at +6 over the base modifier.

2. Hard Modifier Check: By convention, a Hard Modifier check examines the unenhanced ability modifier. This is the base ability score modifier (what you see when you examine the character on the character selection screen prior to logging into the server with that character).

It is important to understand the difference in these terms as they are widely used across many of your characters more power skills and abilities.