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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TreChriron" data-source="post: 8069966" data-attributes="member: 5046">The glaring issue with armor making you easier to hit thereby making you more susceptible to damage has been addressed. The Armor Penalty now only impacts your movement and Agility-based actions. I was not really familiar with the system and I'm intrigued by the idea of using Abilities as a list (no real "attributes" in the classic sense) with specialties which can be invented by the GM/players as desired. It's a really cool approach.The d6 system is a "roll and keep" approach, where you roll a number of dice = Ability+ bonus dice - penalty dice; you "keep" the number of dice = Ability. You then total the remaining dice attempting to exceed a target number (modifiers are usually against the final total vs. dice pool). It's elegant and quick.The included Sorcery system is "low magic" yet very detailed. Lots of cool ideas in here. You can emulate many dark fantasy concepts. There are further details in the already existing Sorcery supplement which is a little more involved (but basically the same) as the one in the Sword Chronicle book. This is not D&D high magic.The Intrigue system handles social interaction with the same gravitas most systems handle physical combat. There are plenty of disclosures to help new players understand the impact of social interaction and to recruit them into the idea of "going with the story" and perhaps losing some player-agency in support of the narrative. There are options to tune this to whatever level of player-agency the group desires.The use of Qualities to determine your ancestry is super fun because you can make non-typical combinations like half-dwarf and elf. Ogres are not your typical brutes but instead a sort-of "fairy" magical bloodline of unique aspects. The combinations will be very interesting.I'm most excited about the Community Content Creator program Green Ronin launched with this release. Fans and creators can publish their own Sword Chronicle supplements!</blockquote>

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