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I think we should use generic currency.

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I think we should use original currencies the way Araph listed them.

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I think we should use original currencies, but with a conversion rate of 100:10:1

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I think we should use original currencies, but with a simpler conversion rate (post your ideas if you chose this).

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Total Members Voted: 5

[Bdthemag]

I'd prefer an urban city setting with some political intrigue, but I'm fine with anything.

[The Fool]

I'll be the mage who studies medicine and demonology. I'll need someone to watch my back, because I don't want to wrestle. From the sounds of it there may be a shortage of skill points, and I won't have the strength to grapple against a warrior anyways.

City hopping would be a nice change from the usual wilderness dungeon hopping.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Well if you want to be the thief John, then I'm definitely calling the Large Warrior (tentatively thinking of Wrestling, Archery, Hand to Hand, Two-Handed Axe, and Dodging as class skills). But yeah, BD's setting suggestion is fine to me.

[Johnfalcon99977]

I don't think anything should be too modern. Lets keep the Tech Level medieval or something around that period, if possible.

[Araph]

I'd prefer an urban city setting with some political intrigue, but I'm fine with anything.

Perfect; that's what I actually want the game to be a little more oriented towards.

I don't think anything should be too modern. Lets keep the Tech Level medieval or something around that period, if possible.

I'd prefer medieval. Having half the physical skills involve medieval weaponry doesn't exactly lend itself to modern settings.

Spoiler: Abbreviated Character Creation (click to show/hide)

For character creation (this is to spare you from having to fight your way through the poorly formatted wall of text), you choose a primary focus, secondary focus, and tertiary focus first. These affect the rates at which your skills level up, and the choices are kinesthetic sense (physical), analytical ability (mental), and social sense (social... duh).

Next, you have points to distribute between attributes. Each attribute starts at -2, but you have 24 points to put into them. The max number of points you can put into any attribute is 6.

After that you have skill points to spend. You get 20 points to spend amongst all of the skills, and 6 additional points to spend in skills governed by your primary focus. You can only put up to 4 points in any particular skill.

Gifts and flaws are for flavor in your character. Each gift is intended to balance out a corresponding flaw, but I don't have lists of them yet. I'm going to rule that characters get 2 of each. If you have ideas for them, just post them for me to yea or nay. They can be anything that actually has an affect on the game, like a modifier for rolls, or a limitation that actually could come up (like how in DnD, barbarians can't read).

Ideals and weaknesses are like gifts and flaws, but they don't have a quantitative effect on gameplay. It's up to you to color your actions with your character's personality, and you get rewarded with roleplaying experience by doing so. You can have 4 of each, but make sure I know what they are so I can keep track of who's acting their part.

[The Fool]

Is there a racial limitation to this? If so, what can we choose from?

[Araph]

I hadn't considered new races a top priority, so I had put it off. Fortunately, it isn't to hard to throw together fluff like that, so it'll take hardly any time at all. Do you want generic fantasy races? Or would you all like to make up new ones?

[Bdthemag]

Lets just do the generic fantasy races, this is a test run after all. We can throw in a few twists to the generic races if people want too.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Will it be fluff or change attributes? Either way I'm fine, I'm just not sure what I want to be yet. ^^^;

[The Fool]

I'd say attribute changes would be a min/max haven. Since you can only have +4 in any one attribute at first even another +1 might unbalance it. It's either the attributes need to be bigger, or races will just affect other things.

[SeriousConcentrate]

As an abusive min-maxer I can't argue with that logic. Fluff would probably be better, unless you want me to try and break the system for testing purposes. ^^^

[Araph]

It'll change attributes and skills (think Elder Scrolls races), but it isn't too hard to put that together. After that, there's the fluff part.

As for unbalancing things... You have a point. Not quite sure how to get around that, aside from doubling the attributes and having the modifier be half of the actual attribute or something.

It'd be great if you could push the system a bit. Of course, the whole 'experience for roleplaying' thing is intended to limit munchkinning by having penalties for acting out of character or on metagaming logic. If you do stuff like that too overtly, your character will fall behind the group fairly fast.

[The Fool]

You could do what D&D does with attributes. In D&D when you have 18 (or 19) strength you have +4 to attack and damage rolls. You can do something similar if you want to keep your system as is. So +8 to +9 strength is the equivalent of +4 strength right now.

EDIT: So does this mean I can be a Tiefling doctor?

[SeriousConcentrate]

It'd be great if you could push the system a bit. Of course, the whole 'experience for roleplaying' thing is intended to limit munchkinning by having penalties for acting out of character or on metagaming logic. If you do stuff like that too overtly, your character will fall behind the group fairly fast.

That's fair enough, no argument here.

[Araph]

You could do what D&D does with attributes. In D&D when you have 18 (or 19) strength you have +4 to attack and damage rolls. You can do something similar if you want to keep your system as is. So +8 to +9 strength is the equivalent of +4 strength right now.

EDIT: So does this mean I can be a Tiefling doctor?

That'd work perfectly! And yes. Yes you can.

Except I don't think the word 'Tiefling' has been used anywhere except DnD. I'd prefer to have differences between the DnD version and this version, because I'm trying to not copy them quite so blatantly.