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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 5785155" data-attributes="member: 3192">This has been mentioned a few times in this forum before. I agree. I believe the simple core game will be using Ability scores as a mixed skill check / defense rating system and then AC & HP will provide more of a light, attrition-based combat system.To play devil's advocate here for a moment for this model. Why have 6 ability scores at all? Why tie together a 3-18 defense score to what amounts to a vary separate ability: the ability modifier? This is the TWERPS test really. I get the d20 system is d20 +/- a modifier vs. a static defense number. But, if the question is why have the previous version of the game not done this before, why have they had divided systems, then we need to answer the same question for "Why have 6 separate scores" as well as "Why tie these scores, one derivative or the other, to each other?"I think separate system allowed greater variety in terms of results and less uniformity during game play. Is that what the core game needs? I don't think so, but if the suppositions of the previous posters are accurate, then will "advanced", greater complexity add-ons simply be growing modifier types onto these rolls as Essentials demonstrates is possible?I hope not. I hope there are add-on systems intact in their own right to allow for greater customization when players opt for greater complexity. The drawback is, of course, that playing varying complexities at the same game table becomes unbalanced, not to mention unwieldy. That aspiration is pretty awesome, that fundamentally different play styles of different player's desires can be satisfied by a single game at a single table in a single campaign. A potential problem may be though that they are losing customization for campaign-level changes due to this uniformity.  I guess we'll see what they are aiming at in the end.I liked reading the systems theory design blog entry posted here a few days ago. Can't remember the link, but I have a feeling Wizards will be going a definite different route, that hey already have their design in place and playtesting won't be changing that core.</blockquote>

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