Confusion in BESM (newbie question)

[Greyfeld85]

I'm looking over the BESM 3e system and I'm sort of confused about character stats. I understand how you derive your stats and what they supposedly mean according to the table that's printed on the page... but what do they actually do?

I mean, in D&D 3.5, stats adjust how your character operates via their stat modifiers. They change your max health, your skill points per level, your actual skill modifiers, your AC, attack bonus, damage, saving throws, spells per day, and even sometimes get used as straight ability checks.

So... what do the Body/Mind/Soul stats actually do for your character, mechanically?

[Tengu_temp]

It's all written in the book. Off the top of my head:

Your base attack/defense combat value is the average of all three stats, rounded down.

Your base HP is (body+soul)*5. Your base SP is (soul+mind)*5.

Skill checks are made with the modifier of stat+skill. Pure stat checks are used sometimes too.

[Greyfeld85]

Ah, that does sound vaguely familiar. I haven't touched the system since second edition, and I couldn't for the life of me find the info. Thank you.