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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8325206" data-attributes="member: 15700">I hope I can help answer appropriately.  My apologies, I am quite under assault from questions on many platforms, and am trying to keep 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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />These changes include but are not limited to:• Alignment. Humanoids no longer have a default alignment in the Bestiary. This will vary by individual monsterculture and region. You as the GM decide if all orcs are chaotic (evil), or if some might be neutral or even lawfulbased upon the cosmic forces influencing them.• Alignment part II. There are only three alignments, similar to B/X: lawful, neutral, and chaotic. Rather than beingdriven by a sense of individual morals, alignment is influenced by cosmic forces of law, neutrality, and chaos.• Ability modifiers. Modifiers you get to your ability scores based on race (hereafter called “ancestry”) will not bethe sole method that adjusts your initial ability scores. You will now modify initial ability scores based on class choices.• Ability scores. Limits or modifiers based on gender or ancestry will not exist.• Ability checks. Most skill resolution scenarios will be based on a simple ability check. It’s how many of us weredoing it anyway, and does replace the traditional thief percentile based skills that appeared in the game back then.• Armor Class will be ascending, rather than descending or using attack tables.• Race. This term is going away and being replaced by Ancestry. The original term was used (and is still being used)because the game was based on the early fantasy works of authors like J.R.R. Tolkien where species like orcs andelves were called “races” based on being a humanoid variant of the human race in general. Since then, and over thepast few decades, the term “race” isn’t really the best descriptor to use, and often carries loaded connotations.• Class categories. Rather than each “class” as unique like it is in 1e, 3e, 4e, and 5e, they will be in groups similarto how 2e classified them. For example, fighters, berserkers, paladins, and rangers would all be classes under theWarrior group. Also, barbarians are called berserkers. “Barbarian” is a cultural background (and often used as apejorative at that), not an occupation.• Class features. Some class features/abilities have been added or rearranged to avoid what is called “deadlevels”. A dead level is any level advancement where the PC doesn’t gain anything other than additional hit points.Dead levels are widely regarded as not a good thing.• KEEP IT SIMPLE. For those familiar with 1e or 2e, you know that there were a lot of rules for a lot of differentscenarios, from time keeping to aerial flight maneuverability (and we ignored many of them). This game will be morestreamlined and simplified (more along the lines of B/X), putting those scenarios into the hands of the GM to makean adjudication rather than dedicate hundreds of pages towards rules. The goal is to keep the game moving withoutneeding to look up many different rules, and to give you a strong outline and guidance on how to handle thesesituations, rather than list them out individually for you.* Compatibility. You should be able to take those old modules from the 70s/80s and easily use them with only veryminor adjustments (mostly moving from descending AC to ascending).</blockquote>

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