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TwoSix replied to the thread Why I Hate Skills.Something I was thinking about during my drive to work: What if skills were saves? Rather than being something on the sheet a player... -
To me, this reinforces that the issues in this thread pertain to scenario design, including (but probably not limited to) it not being a...
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Well, you've brought up lockpicking quite a bit. It seems to me part of the point of a lockpick skill - as used in a traditional dungeon...
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TwoSix replied to the thread Why I Hate Skills.That doesn’t seem denigrating to me. A lot of TTRPGs could benefit from being as thoughtfully designed as a lot of modern board games.
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TwoSix reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Let's Talk About Defining Player Characters with
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An interesting outlier in this conversation is a game called Vagabonds of Dyfed. It uses a PbtA base, adapted for S&S play (not... -
TwoSix replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.I do think a reachable goal for an AD&D revamp would be to keep the generation of character stats consequential for determining...
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TwoSix reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
We're on the same page then. Gutting the ability score system is a bridge too far, and you can't fix it and have something that is...
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TwoSix reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
This is tickling a memory of someone opining that the main use-case in AD&D for playing a demi-human and multiclassing is if your...
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TwoSix reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
I think that the solution is actually somewhat the reverse - make paladin, cavalier, ranger, barbarian, bard, and so forth actually...
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TwoSix replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.Oh, I agree. I was thinking more of raising the requirements on the core 4, and lowering the requirements on the other classes.
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TwoSix reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread Let's Talk About Defining Player Characters with Like.
Meh. Overall I like robust skill lists because it often becomes a list of "things a PC can do" which is good, as I have found that games...
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TwoSix replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.Method V + raising ability requirements would get you pretty far from "the dice screwed me over" while still providing a fair amount of...
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TwoSix reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
Wholesale changes to ability minimums is one of the things I'm thinking about as a way to "fix ability scores" while still leaving the...
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TwoSix reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
That's the obvious thing to do, and you can see a variation of that in my write up of the thief. The problem with your specific concept...
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TwoSix replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.Totally agree on the impact, but I see that as feature, not bug. It creates a strategic tradeoff between using your 18 on Str to get an...