This skill reflects the amount of training you have given to your character's body to enable you to increase your strength and to apply it more effectively when using hand held weapons or resisting certain types of magical forces. The result is that you gain the bonuses shown on the table below. All these bonuses are cumulative. Characters cannot buy the skill Strength V, VI or VII although the skill Racial Mutation, Magical items or Spells can increase a character's strength above IV.