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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5540816" data-attributes="member: 15538">I'm going to tip my hand here and say my new project is a space operatic game with super-psionics. While I plan on setting up a game that is generic enough for any space operatic campaign, and friendly enough to certain obvious pastiches of existing media, I am building it around a broad strokes world of my own design (and to some extent, building the world around the system; why make life hard on myself?). Some things that I see as plusses:- The building blocks approach to creating classes- Ultimately almost unlimited flexibility, if it is desired- Hews to standard d20 abstraction of hit points (contrast with even more abstract damage saves, or nitty-gritty physics based systems like GURPS), slightly more abstract than, say, Conan- Free-flowing, check-based combat system without a lot of special case abilities- Non-punitive, damage reduction based armor- Easy-peasy rules on personal equipment- Good interface surfaces with other d20 products- Handily, has an Energy score built in, reflecting the tropes of the genre I want to emulate- Expandable into fairly detailed ship construction, if desired- Super easy design for new character races and occupations- Short copyright citation list in OGL <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Things definitely to be addressed and modified:- Skill list to be retooled, following very excellent examples by Pathfinder, Fantasy Craft, M&M 3e, etc. while retaining certain BESM-isms- Both Star Wars Saga and M&M consolidated AC with the (seldom used in these genres) Reflex save; I'll probably do the same and follow state of the art closely- Virtually redundant Feat system to be folded into Attributes, with "feat trees" being recreated along the lines of other menu-based Attributes, like the old Gun Bunny and what have you- Restore distinction between "standard" attributes and "exotic" attributes to simplify character creation; many attributes would be Exotic as they would be used primarily in pricing Items of Power or Magic (psionics)- Range and movement to more closely conform to standard d20, albeit with BESM's higher level of abstraction; True20 is my role model hereI was not a big BESM d20 fan when it first game out. I was a bit of a Tri-Stat snob, actually. However, as a d20 tookit, it has a lot to offer. In terms of getting from Point A to Point B, BESM d20 looks like the shortest path to me in a lot of ways! I can probably cut and paste whole pages of OGC, which if you have ever done much design work, is a huge time saver in itself. I'm definitely moving past BESM's enlightening yet not very practical obsession with benchmarking base d20, as if it were literally being sold as a toolkit. It is somewhat the cousin to Trailblazer in that regard.</blockquote>

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