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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1222634" data-attributes="member: 114">Curiously this bit is *exactly* what I'm doing with an OGL version of my &quot;Starguild RPG&quot; (except that I used &quot;SIZe&quot; as the combined str damage, fort bonus and HD bonus attribute).I'm really wrestling because there are things that I think my game system does better than d20 ( <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ) and in my re-working to make it d20-ish I keep on finding that extreme changes are creeping back in.I'm certainly considering axing BAB and moving to weapon skills, for instance; after a while you start asking yourself what the point of levels is (as you seem to be!).One of the ideas I was kicking around but didn't actually get to grips with, was to use levels as descriptive rather than prescriptive. e.g. &quot;You are a 2nd level strong hero when you have got the following skills: flog 4+, hike 4+, bash 4+...etc&quot;Another idea was to allow xps to be spent to &quot;purchase&quot; skills (within boundaries) and allow a &quot;level&quot; of a class to be a package of skills which are purchased at a discount for being a package.Just rambling now, so I'll shut up <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 1222634, member: 114"] Curiously this bit is *exactly* what I'm doing with an OGL version of my "Starguild RPG" (except that I used "SIZe" as the combined str damage, fort bonus and HD bonus attribute). I'm really wrestling because there are things that I think my game system does better than d20 ( :rolleyes: ) and in my re-working to make it d20-ish I keep on finding that extreme changes are creeping back in. I'm certainly considering axing BAB and moving to weapon skills, for instance; after a while you start asking yourself what the point of levels is (as you seem to be!). One of the ideas I was kicking around but didn't actually get to grips with, was to use levels as descriptive rather than prescriptive. e.g. "You are a 2nd level strong hero when you have got the following skills: flog 4+, hike 4+, bash 4+...etc" Another idea was to allow xps to be spent to "purchase" skills (within boundaries) and allow a "level" of a class to be a package of skills which are purchased at a discount for being a package. Just rambling now, so I'll shut up :) [/QUOTE]

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