The way they are coded works out to an average of ~1 point per stat added to children at level 4. You have to roll the 8% chance to get +1 (which on average will take until age 12 out of 15), then in the few years of time remaining you have to roll a 6% chance to get +2 (which replaces the +1, you don't get +3 total). The successive chance for +3 and +4 are so improbable as to be almost meaningless. This seems really weak and like someone didn't do the math to see just how poor it is.
If this was fixed to work as you'd expect it to be (8% chance of +1 per year, 6% chance of +2 per year, etc etc all stacking and able to be applied multiple times) it would still only equate to an average of +4 stat points per effect. Which is powerful, but seems like it would be fair compared to how powerful most of the other tier 4 wonder abilities are.
EDIT: It's actually even worse than I thought. The wonder effects are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. As soon as you get, say, +1 martial, your child is immediately locked out of ever getting a +finesse, charisma, or zeal bonus from the other potential wonder effects. Wow, just awful.
If this was fixed to work as you'd expect it to be (8% chance of +1 per year, 6% chance of +2 per year, etc etc all stacking and able to be applied multiple times) it would still only equate to an average of +4 stat points per effect. Which is powerful, but seems like it would be fair compared to how powerful most of the other tier 4 wonder abilities are.
EDIT: It's actually even worse than I thought. The wonder effects are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. As soon as you get, say, +1 martial, your child is immediately locked out of ever getting a +finesse, charisma, or zeal bonus from the other potential wonder effects. Wow, just awful.
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