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<blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 391844" data-attributes="member: 1016">LOL! *accidently spewing soda at the screen*&quot;Ok, so just out of curiosity how would you go about creating a lightly armored, nimble character who was a skilled warrior but also had taken some time to honing his stealth and acrobatic abilities in GURPS?&quot;&quot;All in the background. and what his stat scores showed. Of course we used a different point total. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&quot;AND&quot;Ok, so just out of curiosity how would you go about creating a lightly armored, nimble character who was a skilled warrior but also had taken some time to honing his stealth and acrobatic abilities in RIFTS?&quot;&quot;All in the background. and what his stat scores showed. Of course we used 5d6 six times. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&quot;AND&quot;Ok, so just out of curiosity how would you go about creating a lightly armored, nimble character who was a skilled warrior but also had taken some time to honing his stealth and acrobatic abilities in Storyteller?&quot;&quot;All in the background. and what his stat scores showed. Of course we used more freebie points. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&quot;With a &quot;&quot;All in the background. and what his stat scores showed&quot; any system can be made &quot;flexible.&quot; But this harkens back to what I always thought what the core DND crowd liked about the game.They tore it apart to the basics and then used a notebook of house rules to build it back up to where they wanted it.&nbsp; The 3rd ed. just reconizes that fact and allows GMs to do it in a modular fashion. Like it was said earlier, this version of DND's philosophy is to offer more and let the DM cut back instead of offering one vision and force DMs to make it up as they go along.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voneth, post: 391844, member: 1016"] LOL! *accidently spewing soda at the screen* "Ok, so just out of curiosity how would you go about creating a lightly armored, nimble character who was a skilled warrior but also had taken some time to honing his stealth and acrobatic abilities in GURPS?" "All in the background. and what his stat scores showed. Of course we used a different point total. ;)" AND "Ok, so just out of curiosity how would you go about creating a lightly armored, nimble character who was a skilled warrior but also had taken some time to honing his stealth and acrobatic abilities in RIFTS?" "All in the background. and what his stat scores showed. Of course we used 5d6 six times. ;)" AND "Ok, so just out of curiosity how would you go about creating a lightly armored, nimble character who was a skilled warrior but also had taken some time to honing his stealth and acrobatic abilities in Storyteller?" "All in the background. and what his stat scores showed. Of course we used more freebie points. ;)" With a ""All in the background. and what his stat scores showed" any system can be made "flexible." But this harkens back to what I always thought what the core DND crowd liked about the game. They tore it apart to the basics and then used a notebook of house rules to build it back up to where they wanted it. The 3rd ed. just reconizes that fact and allows GMs to do it in a modular fashion. Like it was said earlier, this version of DND's philosophy is to offer more and let the DM cut back instead of offering one vision and force DMs to make it up as they go along. [/QUOTE]

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