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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8194128" data-attributes="member: 6915329">I'm still thinking fairy tales and fairy-tale adjacent works, like Alice and Wonderland and Wizard of Oz, would be a major influence. Less "group of people slaying the monsters" and more "one person or small group escaping from or outwitting the monsters."I don't know enough about how CRPGs work, or even computer games in general. What sort of systems are you thinking?No bell curves, I see. Actually, I'm thinking--since d6s will still be a thing because of regular board games--that there might be a lot more systems that call for dice pools or exploding dice. Or special dice with symbols on them that mean something. It would probably start as tables and end up with specialized dice. Hmm--did polyhedral dice (or the chit-out-of-the-bag equivalent) come from wargaming, and if so, why did wargames want d10s and d20s?I'm not entirely convinced that it would be human-only, but I do agree that the races would be very different than they currently are, if there's no Tolkien to push certain ones forward. OTOH, you still have elves and dwarfs from Norse myth, even if they would look a lot differently from D&D elves and dwarfs. Hunter, scout, soldier, knight/samurai investigator/detective, brawler... actually, I think that the rogue might not exist (no Tolkien, thus no Burglar) as well and rogue-y skills would simply be a thing that could be taken. There would likely still be an assassin of sorts, and maybe a "street fighter" class, though. Again, agree. As I wrote earlier, though, I could see a witch or shaman-type--or since this is a game that was created today, something with a better name. Spirit-Talker?But, this being a game where presumably the gods still exist, I can see creating something--a feat or a piety system--that might allow you to suddenly gain some incredibly good luck for a brief time. I think that the magic might also be a lot more ritualistic in nature. Eye of newt and tongue of dog indeed. Or possibly alchemical in nature. Whether this becomes two classes or one class with two types of magic, I dunno.</blockquote>

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