Basic Four
cavalier973
Hero
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Raith5
Adventurer
Interesting ideas - I think 4e and basic have some complementary sensibilities. But I think one thing to make this task easier is to start with levels 1-3 first to see if the basic (hah) idea works well. I think things like 4e skills and feats can be left as optional modules with stat checks as the default.
Tony Vargas
Legend
Depends on what you're going for...
If you like the idea of lucking into a massive haul resulting in a sudden leap in competence, sure, give exp for treasure, and place treasure & monsters however.
If you like the idea of encouraging players to avoid fights, but overcome challenges, give exp for treasure, but place the treasure behind monsters &skill challenges normally worth that exp. Go through either and you've earned the exp, pick pointless fights, OTOH, no exp...
Race-as-class is little more than combining race & class. Halfling?
Halfling Thief. Dwarf? Dwarven Fighter. Elf? Eladrin Bladesinger.
Name level maps neatly to Paragon, you could have a Paragon Path for each class that did that...
No, just no. ;p
Maybe randomize stat placement? ...use an array, but roll which score goes where...
Just give all damage by powers instead of weapon, and give them in 'dice' - d6s - of damage. Weapons could have a modifier per die, it'd be about equivalent to a larger die
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AbdulAlhazred
Legend
Just make reaction a Diplomacy check and Morale (IE the enemy breaking) a function of Intimidate, so you can ROLL to break your opponents, taking up a standard action to do so, and the DC is based on typical morale factors, making it VERY hard to do at the start of a battle and then increasingly easy. Undead of course just ignore the whole thing!
I like the 'halflings as rangers' idea. I'd make elves Fighter/Wizard hybrid (yeah, its awkward, well you wanted to be an elf, deal!). Dwarves could be barbarians, or they could be a Slayer, wielding a big axe of course!
Paragon paths would take care of the 'political game', you'd just have to write up several of them that provide for variations of becoming a local ruler.
AbdulAlhazred
Legend
The easy way to handle this is a 'sliding' initiative system, or what was once called a 'clock' system. At the start everyone is placed at a point on the 'clock' based on dex or a check result or whatever. whenever your turn comes up you take an action which eats up some defined amount of 'hours' on the clock, and place your next turn at the point where the action ends (you can also have actions take effect at that point, so you are pre-declaring them much like old D&D). Cast a 9 segment spell, you will not be doing much for a while. Wield a dagger, you can stab pretty fast!
AbdulAlhazred
Legend
You can think of XP for gold as basically what 4e has now. Win an encounter, you get a set amount of gold, and a set amount of XP. Its effectively the same thing, modulo the GM might group treasure parcels and give them out at the end of an adventure or piece of one, etc. Anyway, XP for treasure really wouldn't be a huge change, though you could obviously make it so depending on how you implemented the treasure rules.
cavalier973
Hero
Do players have different motivations from their characters, do you think?
It seems to me that the XP for Treasure scheme was an attempt to align the player's goals with that of their characters--the characters originally being considered to be Howardian sword-and-sorcery treasure hunters rather than Tolkienian epic heroes.
Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
Question becomes how much experience for saving the pauper girl when you do not get explicit wealth reward.... fine if you just saved a prince and you get money. But was saving the one pointless and the other a prize?
Ofcourse if you are using my Karma Point extension this works just fine
