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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8651575" data-attributes="member: 2629">Kinda sorta, but not an offical one.I built a 3d System.  In the 3D system you roll 3 dice to determine success, and the amount by which you succeed will impact what happens on the success.  The trick: The size of die you roll increases as you advance in power.  d12 was the near pinnacle die - you generally could not really advance to a d20.  When we used it, people fixated on getting to the d12s.The first die was your inherent die, and it was based upon features you selected in character creation.  It generally did not change throughout your adventuring career.  The second die was an attribute die, which was enlarged by developing one of your focal attributes.  This changed during character creation, but also at milestones in an adventuring career.  There were 8 prime attributes, and 28 derived attributes that were determined by combining dice - but they also started off with random modifiers that gave your PC more variation.  The third die reflected training.  As PCs gained experience, they gain it in categories.  Those categories could then be spent to develop skills that had those categories as a tag.  If you stood in the back and fired arrows all adventure, your options to advance were limited.  But if you engaged in swordplay, archery, stealth, spellcasting and negotiation, your options were more open.  There were  lot of skills that could be trained (each spell was a separate skill, but a spell was more of a spell family with different options available depending upon your roll... and powerful spells could often do very bad things to the caster on a low roll, making powerful magics enticing, but dangerous).  If you had no training, you'd roll a d1 (which is just a result of 1).Under the system, a very unsuited and untrained person might roll 2d4+1d1-1 (average 5) for a roll, while the most experienced hero might roll 3d12+3 (22.5 average) ... or even 1d12+2d20+3 (average 30.5)  Really high rolls were exciting.  When running the system, I set DCs (I used a different name, but they were DCs) based upon the idea that easy things had a DC of 8, normal tasks a DC of 11, difficult tasks a DC of 14, etc...    The system worked well, and was evocative, but the group that knew it stopped playing together and new groups tend to want to use systems they already know, or that they've heard of before. Honestly, I liked it slightly more than a d20 system due to the bell curve and constant evolution, but not by so much that I'd advocate for it with players.</blockquote>

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