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I was trying to figure out how they got the resolve score for characters for the time being because I may have more people than 5 wanting to try the new rules. The rest seems very similar to the current stuff. Sadly other than a select few things characters are just going to be copies of the pregens for the time being from Hope's Last Day Evolved. But I was wondering because it seems to follow Empathy except the marine of all things which looks like Wits. Just curious what all you lot thought on that?

Resolve is (Wits + Empathy) ÷ 2, rounded up. If those scores are only one point different, then it will work out the same as the higher of the two.

I had come to the conclusion that the blended ancillary ability scores (Health, Resolve) just didn't strike my fancy. I am not comfortable with Health having an Agility angle since it makes it much more like hit points in 5e and less like Body/Health/Strength in other systems, where hit absorption is related to muscle density and mass. So I elected to keep Health directly correlated to Strength as in ARPG 1E. It also helps that Strength is a less desirable Ability than Wits or Agility, which drive almost all of the important Skills. Similarly, while I get the concept of Resolve being a blend of Wits and Empathy, it adds even more value to a heavily over-valued Ability (Wits), so I have decided to make Resolve a direct correlation to Empathy. It helps add some value to an otherwise undervalued Ability, and logically it makes sense that Empathy is a sort of Charisma + Emotional Intelligence, and that is where Resolve grows from more than pure intellect.

Quoting ApocalypseDan1

I had come to the conclusion that the blended ancillary ability scores (Health, Resolve) just didn't strike my fancy.

 
On the other hand, it helps to 'standarize' the human species, so while still having some variety of stronger and weaker individuals, there are much less abnormal disparities (like the old Health 2 vs Health 7)