Please explain some of the new changes

[Joolis]

Been playing a couple years now, but some of the new changes that Elysia posted are confusing to me.

BMI - how does this affect a character?
!TAKE - what is this?
"5 ticks available" - I was confused by this whole part, what is a tick (i'm assuming it's not a "tic") and how is it applied?

Granted, it will take me years to even get close to rank 8 (if ever), but I was still curious.

Thanks!

[Elyse]

!TAKE means no take. The item can't be looted or picked up. Note that if a 1h weapon gets disarmed to the ground, this means you won't be able to pick up your own weapon. A rare occurence, but worth at least noting, as Elysia pointed it out to me yesterday. What I forgot to confirm is whether no take prevents giving an item. I assume it doesn't, or otherwise mending no-take armor would fail as the armorer wouldn't be able to give it back to you.

The tics are just five (5) bonus points you get to assign to make your weapon better than the base. So you can make it come honed (1 tick) with +2 pounds of weight (4 ticks), or with +5 parry (5 ticks), or 1 pound heavier (2 ticks) with +3 ob (3 ticks), etc.

BMI presumably influences bash success, and there's long been suspicion that stockier characters bash more effectively. I think Elysia has at last gotten to see under the hood on certain mechanics, but I don't know any specifics on the exact influence of BMI.

[Joolis]

Great, thanks for the explanation!

[revenant]

So do you pick bonuses from one group at rank 8 or pick one bonus from every group avaliable?

[iria]

You pick from each group, group 1 you can pick 2 things, group 2 one thing etc. at least thats how I understood it

[Elyse]

You pick from each group, group 1 you can pick 2 things, group 2 one thing etc. at least thats how I understood it

That's how Elysia explained it to me yesterday as well.