Fable/Attributes

The two primary attributes strength and skill affect your characters size and hieght, as well as your basic health and killing ability, will grants you new abilities and also changes your appearance. On a final note, the totals on some abilities will vary due to the alignment penalties and reductions, the total experience need to max all stats and abilities will be very close to the number below.

To max all stats and abilities you need = 1,908,400 experience

Strength
Puting points into the 3 Strength skills adds bulk (muscle) to your Character, as well as adds chest, arm and back hair. Physique makes you deal more damage with each melee hit. Health increases your Health. Toughness increases your natural armour, making you take less damage when struck by magic, ranged or melee attacks.

To max all 3 stats you need = 351,950 experience

Skill
Puting points into skill makes your character taller, but does not add any mass at all, a character with lots of skill and no strength looks like an Etheopian, I'm not joking... its kinda funny. Speed increases both your melee and ranged attack speed. Accuracy increases the damage you do with ranged attacks (not magic attacks). Guile allows you to get better deals on buying and selling items, as well as unlocking steal and lockpick abilities.

To max all 3 stats you need = 330,900 experience

Will
Putting points into Will turns your hair grey (faster than just age) and adds ruin like markings on your body. These tattoo's, as some people call them, turn blue with more and more Will points spent. Magic Power increases your maximum magic.

To max all abilities and magic power you need = 1,225,550 experience