Are Stats relative in Arm?

[hammie2]

I was just thinking about a few things and after playing multiple races in the game I noticed that even though one character had strength that was very good (elf) he could not pull a bow that another character with above average str (human) could.

This brings me to my general thought that the stats you receive are relative to your race.  I might have read this elsewhere, but please let me know if this is correct.

[crymerci]

Yes, they're relative.  Just like "tall" means different things to halflings and half-giants, so does "strong" etc.

[adgohan]

Without going too OOC, to answer your question, basically:

A desert elf warrior with very good strength versus a half-giant warrior with very good strength would have different strengths numerically. Race is relative to how all statistics work, so it's possible to have a race that innately has terrible strength, or innately has very good strength, but some other weakness somewhere else. A "very good" strength roll would be very good for that race, but you still might be weaker than another race that has poor strength and just better innate.

[Savak]

Yes.  As stated, your attribute descriptions for strength, agility, wisdom, and endurance are all relative to your character's race.

-Savak