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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8476278" data-attributes="member: 6799660">You asked specifically why Gygax did something. Someone provided a relatively exhaustive (and accurate) explanation for how the initial attributes came to be when they were initially conceived. How is that not coming to your aid? I would than Jack Daniel profusely for asking the question you asked, and -- if that's not really the question you'd hoped to have answered -- clarify for them and the rest of us what you really wanted addressed. As for this, well it is an interesting concept. It is wildly different from any version of D&amp;D, which is fine, but raises the question of why one would want to bother with D&amp;D if you were going to create a system like this? Why not build a game system from the ground up, complete with other game design choices you might also prefer to the way D&amp;D does things? I'm also not clear on exactly what benefit this provides. You now have a series of 15 (once all the slots are filled) classes that each represent a focus on two specific attributes out of five, but what does that get us (other than a vague sense of mathematic completeness)? I guess my primary question is what is the goal for this project?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 8476278, member: 6799660"] You asked specifically why Gygax did something. Someone provided a relatively exhaustive (and accurate) explanation for how the initial attributes came to be when they were initially conceived. How is that not coming to your aid? I would than Jack Daniel profusely for asking the question you asked, and -- if that's not really the question you'd hoped to have answered -- clarify for them and the rest of us what you really wanted addressed. As for this, well it is an interesting concept. It is wildly different from any version of D&D, which is fine, but raises the question of why one would want to bother with D&D if you were going to create a system like this? Why not build a game system from the ground up, complete with other game design choices you might also prefer to the way D&D does things? I'm also not clear on exactly what benefit this provides. You now have a series of 15 (once all the slots are filled) classes that each represent a focus on two specific attributes out of five, but what does that get us (other than a vague sense of mathematic completeness)? I guess my primary question is what is the goal for this project? [/QUOTE]

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