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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7767454" data-attributes="member: 6873517"><p>I agree with some of the devices you talk about (e.g., Martial Practices) you could make a much more capable character. However, there's the other huge issue: You'd need to allow for really marked level discrepancies. One of the longstanding premises of the game is that the PCs are rough peers and are usually the experts in their particular niche. D&D doesn't handle marked level discrepancies well and neither do many players. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I agree but IMO those are things that really hack at the general core premises of D&D, which pretty clearly shows its skirmish rules war-game roots. One could use the basic D&D engine for this kind of thing, but I don't really think it's a strength of the system. </p><p></p><p>As an example of a way to handle it, the last book published by White Wolf that went to FLGS market was <em>Mirrors</em>. It had a ton of interesting ideas in it. One was that you could build characters on a fixed set of build points. However, unspent points could translate into untapped potential or fortune. Thus a character like Aragorn would have pretty much spent all his points on backgrounds and skills. His abilities and destiny were pretty much set, come what may. Frodo, on the other hand, wouldn't have spent most of his points and thus has a lot of fortune on his side. Merry and Pippin spent their points on some fortune but also on untapped potential, developing warrior and leadership skills. All that said, playing either Frodo and Aragorn in a party would require some really serious player buy-in and player and GM chops, regardless of the system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7767454, member: 6873517"] I agree with some of the devices you talk about (e.g., Martial Practices) you could make a much more capable character. However, there's the other huge issue: You'd need to allow for really marked level discrepancies. One of the longstanding premises of the game is that the PCs are rough peers and are usually the experts in their particular niche. D&D doesn't handle marked level discrepancies well and neither do many players. Yeah, I agree but IMO those are things that really hack at the general core premises of D&D, which pretty clearly shows its skirmish rules war-game roots. One could use the basic D&D engine for this kind of thing, but I don't really think it's a strength of the system. As an example of a way to handle it, the last book published by White Wolf that went to FLGS market was [I]Mirrors[/I]. It had a ton of interesting ideas in it. One was that you could build characters on a fixed set of build points. However, unspent points could translate into untapped potential or fortune. Thus a character like Aragorn would have pretty much spent all his points on backgrounds and skills. His abilities and destiny were pretty much set, come what may. Frodo, on the other hand, wouldn't have spent most of his points and thus has a lot of fortune on his side. Merry and Pippin spent their points on some fortune but also on untapped potential, developing warrior and leadership skills. All that said, playing either Frodo and Aragorn in a party would require some really serious player buy-in and player and GM chops, regardless of the system. [/QUOTE]
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