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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 4765682" data-attributes="member: 4303">I don't think that it's relevant. I don't know that pondering the hows and whys of character level and leveling outside of the PCs themselves is productive, as it lends an abstraction too much concreteness.3e tended in the other direction, of course. There was a kind of implicit assumption that level had some objective reality. I'm not making a value judgment, btw - I love 3.x. But I've been hankering for freshness.I'd rather develop complexity in areas away from combat, aside from a few choice tweaks. The B/X engine has a beautiful simplicity, which naturally makes the game far more strategic. I'm still thinking about that one. Maybe something simple, with a d6. I'd base it on the Thief's "Hear Noise" ability by level; not my idea, btw. I stole it from someone at Dragonsfoot. I'll credit them properly when I find the link again. In the meantime, thank-you, whoever you are.Roll d6. Skills would succeed on a 1-2 (at 1st and 2nd level), on a 1-3 (at 3rd thru 6th level) etc. I'm thinking very broad categories (Lore is one I keep coming back to; I can't think of any others, off the top of my head). A big part of me would rather define skills during role-playing. You're a good armorer? You can counterfeit money? Expert falconer? Fine. I'll roll with that.  Uhoh<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />Good thinking!Honestly, I have no idea when the association began. I had an idea that it might be Roman lictors who carried them, but apparently they had bundles of sticks instead. Maybe it's a Carolingian thing? Could Google, but I'm lazy.I know that more than a few peasant uprisings involved maces. No picks/hammers, I'm thinking - no plate to penetrate. And big slecges are rather too fantastic.Horse barding would be more cataphractoi-type than steel plates; or maybe just cuirboilli with a very heavy caparison.Dunno about flails, tho.</blockquote>

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