Resources are what the characters use to reach their Accomplishments.
The amount of resources is fundamental to determine what Accomplishments the character can reach. A character with very low resources would be unlikely to be Astronomically Atrocious or Incredibly Noble.
Resources’ levels
Immense Resources
- The character’s resources aren’t just high, they’re higher than what any normal human could reach. This means that the character is either Immensely Powerful themselves or has one or more items classifiable as Invincible.
Vast Resources
- The character’s resources are very high. They may have powerful superhuman skills or magic abilities, but they don’t need to be physically strong. A physically weak character that has various armies under their command would have an high amount of resources even if their physical strength is very low.
Moderate Resources
- The character isn’t immensely powerful or resourceful, but they have a decent amount of resources. They can be the leader of a small group of people (less than hundreds but more than four).
Low Resources
- The character’s amount of resources is low. They‘re likely an average person who may or may not have small superhuman skills but lack powerful weapons. They at most may have some simple weaponry like a gun or a knife and have a couple of allies.
Resources Comparisons
Resources are also important to moral rank a character.
If the hero x is more admirable than the hero y, but the former has Vast Resources while the latter has Low Resources, the comparison between the two of them may be unfair due to the big resources gap.
The resources gap should be noticeable to consider the comparison unfair. If the difference in resources is very small, the characters would still have to compete with each other.
At the same time, a villain with an extreme amount of resources, like god-like powers, won’t be able to reach 1- rank if their heinousness is limited, even if they pass the baseline, since their resources are so high that doing the minimum to not be bog-standard won’t make them heinous enough.
Though, there are cases where the resources gap doesn’t help a character to be more admirable or heinous. In a work where every villain kills dozens of people, a villain with an decently high kill count wouldn’t be heinous enough even with a large resources gap from other villains, since their kill count would still be the norm for their work.
Also, when a villain has high resources but doesn’t use them to commit their worst deeds, villains with lower resources would still need to compete with them.