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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 6066728" data-attributes="member: 2804">Well, what would you like to know? 13th Age is a narrative driven D&D inspired d20 fantasy RPG that, in my opinion, takes a lot of cues from both classic AD&D, 3e, and 4e. There are only 10 levels. 1-4 is adventurer tier,  5-7 is champion tier, and 8-10 is epic tier. Every level is a significant power up from the one before. It gives you a cumulative +1 to all your rolls (such as attacks, and skill checks), and to your defenses. You also gain a die of damage whether you are melee or caster based. So an epic level 10 fighter is rolling 10d8 with their swords.Every class can choose from a number of class talents, feats, and spells when they level up, depending on the class. Powers scale with your level. Likewise, monsters work like in 4e. They exist to challenge the PCs and their attacks, defenses, etc. are designed to be a challenge appropriate to their level. There are monster roles like 4e uses.The game is gridless and focuses on the narrative. There is no skill system, rather PCs have background that they put points into. For example, my fighter might have the background Former Imperial Legionnaire +4. When a situation would call for a skill check, I can explain to the GM how my background applies and if they agree I add my background bonus to my level when making a check. For example, if I need to make a climb check to rappel down a dungeon wall, I can explain how the Imperial Legionnaires trained how to rappel as part of their seige warfare training. The GM would say "Cool, that makes sense, add your background bonus to your skill check".Every PC also gets to declare One Unique Thing about their PC that should be story oriented and that helps define the campaign. If a PC says their halfling paladin is the only halfling paladin in the world, then so they are. And the GM can use that as part of the campaign. Likewise, they could do something dramatic, I could declare as my OUT that my human fighter was once a mighty dragon cursed into human form. The GM could then make that part of the story. Maybe he lets the PC know things that an ancient dragon might know. Or at the culmination of the game, perhaps the PC can finally be restored to their dragon form. There are tons of possibilities.Its an amazing game and I'm totally in love with it. Its how I've always wanted D&D to be. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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