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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baron Opal" data-source="post: 3635883" data-attributes="member: 10433">To answer Kunimatyu...Classes: The five or so mentioned previously; Cleric, Fighter, Noble, Thief, Wizard. These should be general enough so that it is feasable to have multiple themes for each class. (Noble for rich merchant's son, influential miner's daughter, &c.)Talent trees: 3-4 unique trees for each of the five or so classes. I particularly like the division in SWSE between the scout and scoundrel. As I was reading it I could see how I could adapt it to a futuristic Iron Heroes game.Skills: Twenty consolidated skills would be great. I would like to combine Climb and Jump, and perhaps Swim, into an Athletics skill. Still, we do need to resist combining all skills tied to a particular attribute into the same skill. I like the simplicity of the system as well. Half my group are hard-core gamers, the other half casual. Simplifing the skills, particularly removing the synergies, benefits me greatly due to the decreased teaching load.Initiative and Endurance as skills: I think it's great that Endurance is a skill, but I'm not sure about Initiative. I do see the theme in that higher level people have an advantage over lower levels.Defensive Attributes: I really like the unified, static defenses. The biggest bag-a-boo for me is wizards, or other people who are classically ill-defended, and how to reconcile their AC vs saves.Adverse status condition: The combination of a "major wound" number and the track I think is a great resource. Sometimes the death spiral is just the most appropriate description for a situation. The only thing that I think would be inappropriate would be level / energy drain.Magic: Vancian magic as the mainstay. I would like a feat / skill system as an alternate path to power, but I'll derive that from the psionic's handbook from Green Ronin if I need to.</blockquote>

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