Yes.
Not that extreme – you literally can’t get to 100 or 0 with Fairmath, which the stats use. Even getting to 80/20 is pretty extreme. I’m more interested in having a mix of disadvantages and advantages for players who are at the extremes (and rewards for non-extreme middle-of-the-roaders), rather than pushing everyone to be extreme in three things because that’s where all the rewards are.
Lots of difficult persuasion, impressing people, changing their minds… you’ll see in Grand Shayard.
Of course, I get and appreciate your reasoning behind stats scale. I personally prefer to play centrist on some fields, like religion, but I was just curious if there would be some situations for some true hardliners 
FWIW, the current meta favors extremism, though Havie is going to include more options for less-sexy neutrality in the future.
I’m going with hardcore religion and cosmo, but trying to maintain a balance on ruthlessness and compassion, for example.
Piggybacking on the question about whether Sybla’s training will be useful if we didn’t use it, will Breden’s Kryptast code ever be useful if we didn’t use it in Game 1? I doubt it, but thought I’d ask anyway.
the current meta
I didn’t write it to be useful post Game 1…in fact, I didn’t write it for the game to remember it at all after G1 Ch 4 unless you got the Tagmatarch’s sword or broke your relationship with Breden over it, which is probably a mistake I’ll need to fix.
Going with that charisma 3 stat, what’s a combat 3 and intellect 3 look like? Full on low ranked blade master and the like?
Combat 3 is like Simon/Suzane.
Int 3 is when you start becoming a real Theurge.
Oh speaking of our swordsman, anyone know how to get that special magic crafted sword I’ve seen tossed around a few times. Most I can ever get is the boar spear when you have a high priest relationship
Tis not a happy path to get that one but I got it once because I was curious essentially you must get captured you must be told the the cryptst code from Brenden then you got to kill the leader of the army sent against you when brought before them.
That’s a shortened version lol there’s details in there I can’t recall at the moment been to long since I’ve played that path.
Ah, damn that is sad. I thought we could just win it by beating the enemy very effectively and taking the sword as a prize XD
Thank ya for the info!
How’d you manage that?
Don’t get on their bad side during the winter, hire the deacon, and give them money
Well, I’m a mage but I can do those other things.
The plektos spear isn’t about priest relationship, it’s about being rescued after the Harrowing and thus having Laconnier/Halassurq support.
Unfamiliar with this.
You can have high priest relationship as a mage you just need to keep it hidden until after you’ve paid the priests to get them on side.
To get the spears you have to let your friends get harrowed at the beginning of the game
So I’d need to never use my powers.
No you can use your powers you just need to be subtle about it. You don’t get worse results
I wonder how screwed I am in my current playthrough since I was obvious. Can we improve things in the sequel @Havenstone? Hate to abandon my current run.