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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 5724067" data-attributes="member: 61026">Brainstorming. (Spitballing?)My impression of this exercise is that Herremann the Wise is beginning to design a completely new fantasy game derived from D&amp;D, to replace the various Classes/Powers/Feats/Backgrounds/Themes/Items systems already in place. (&quot;Brainstorming,&quot; to put it into a single word.) I recall having read that the key to brainstorming is to add ideas, and never to criticize ideas, so I'll just add these comments: A. Terminology: I'll violate established language principles by back-forming the word &quot;Feat&quot; by rashly assuming it to be an abbreviation of the word &quot;Feature&quot; (instead of meaning &quot;accomplishment&quot; as I otherwise traditionally would). With that many more letters to abbreviate in various ways, we can divide the word &quot;feature&quot; to derive the abbreviations &quot;feat,&quot; &quot;eatu,&quot; and &quot;ature&quot; from the same word, and to get three different classifications of options for characters to take: Feats, Eatues, and Atures. <ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The middle one -- &quot;Eatues&quot; -- will immediately (because I'm doing it right now!) get corrupted into &quot;Each Use&quot;; so those can be restricted to options that involve the active use of something, whether it be Standard, Move, Minor, Free, Immediate, Opportunity, or No Action; and from whatever source (class? item?)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The last one -- &quot;Atures&quot; -- will have to relate to the character's stature somehow&nbsp; (not meaning physical height). (Not settled yet; there may be more ways to relate to stature than merely one.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The first one -- &quot;Feats&quot; -- will conglomerate the leftovers.</li>
</ul>B. Level-specific options, and option-trees: These should probably be put into the &quot;Atures&quot; bucket -- because any one character might not be qualified to take a specific one of these at first, but the same character might qualify to take it later; so its use depends on the character's stature.This seems to tread on the territory that classes used to support, so putting these options into the &quot;Atures&quot; bucket might be a way for the new game to avoid proliferation of classes.(That's all I have right now.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 5724067, member: 61026"] [b]Brainstorming. (Spitballing?)[/b] My impression of this exercise is that Herremann the Wise is beginning to design a completely new fantasy game derived from D&D, to replace the various Classes/Powers/Feats/Backgrounds/Themes/Items systems already in place. ("Brainstorming," to put it into a single word.) I recall having read that the key to brainstorming is to add ideas, and never to criticize ideas, so I'll just add these comments: A. Terminology: I'll violate established language principles by [I]back-forming[/I] the word "Feat" by rashly assuming it to be an abbreviation of the word "Feature" (instead of meaning "accomplishment" as I otherwise traditionally would). With that many more letters to abbreviate in various ways, we can divide the word "feature" to derive the abbreviations "feat," "eatu," and "ature" from the same word, and to get three different classifications of options for characters to take: Feats, Eatues, and Atures. [LIST] [*]The middle one -- "Eatues" -- will immediately (because I'm doing it right now!) get corrupted into "Each Use"; so those can be restricted to options that involve the active [B][I]use[/I][/B] of something, whether it be Standard, Move, Minor, Free, Immediate, Opportunity, or No Action; and from whatever source (class? item?) [*]The last one -- "Atures" -- will have to relate to the character's stature somehow (not meaning physical height). (Not settled yet; there may be more ways to relate to stature than merely one.) [*]The first one -- "Feats" -- will conglomerate the leftovers. [/LIST] B. Level-specific options, and option-trees: These should probably be put into the "Atures" bucket -- because any one character might not be qualified to take a specific one of these at first, but the same character might qualify to take it later; so its use depends on the character's stature. This seems to tread on the territory that classes used to support, so putting these options into the "Atures" bucket might be a way for the new game to avoid proliferation of classes. (That's all I have right now.) [/QUOTE]

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