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<blockquote data-quote="garrowolf" data-source="post: 5597391" data-attributes="member: 31900">I have created my own game system that has a core from the D20 system. I changed a lot of things but these helped me speed up combat and make it more gritty: Damage is a flat number that your margin of success adds to. This means that the better you roll the more damage you do. This eliminates a second damage roll for each attack. You can use the values that I have for my weapons if you want to. Criticals just add +5 to your roll. There is no confirming criticals. This works well with the previous rule. There are no attacks of opportunity. So much faster without that. Nexus uses a wound system that means that means that characters can never ignore even a normal person with a dagger but I can understand that this part would not feel very retro. However it makes combat faster and it is the key to making a game gritty and realistic. Instead of your hit points going up as you level, your toughness (natural DR) goes up as you put points into it. I use a different attribute mod system then d20. Instead of a +1 for 10 -11, +2 for 12-13, etc. I just subtract 10 from the number and that is your bonus. So if you have a 14 in an attribute then you have a +4. It means that your natural abilities mean more. It also means that you don't have to have 18s in your attributes to have good bonuses. Use the mechanic from 4e and have passive Defence ratings. Don't roll your defence. So this way you have one roll per attack on both sides. check out the concepts page from my nexus system for some more ideas!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="garrowolf, post: 5597391, member: 31900"] I have created my own game system that has a core from the D20 system. I changed a lot of things but these helped me speed up combat and make it more gritty: Damage is a flat number that your margin of success adds to. This means that the better you roll the more damage you do. This eliminates a second damage roll for each attack. You can use the values that I have for my weapons if you want to. Criticals just add +5 to your roll. There is no confirming criticals. This works well with the previous rule. There are no attacks of opportunity. So much faster without that. Nexus uses a wound system that means that means that characters can never ignore even a normal person with a dagger but I can understand that this part would not feel very retro. However it makes combat faster and it is the key to making a game gritty and realistic. Instead of your hit points going up as you level, your toughness (natural DR) goes up as you put points into it. I use a different attribute mod system then d20. Instead of a +1 for 10 -11, +2 for 12-13, etc. I just subtract 10 from the number and that is your bonus. So if you have a 14 in an attribute then you have a +4. It means that your natural abilities mean more. It also means that you don't have to have 18s in your attributes to have good bonuses. Use the mechanic from 4e and have passive Defence ratings. Don't roll your defence. So this way you have one roll per attack on both sides. check out the concepts page from my nexus system for some more ideas! [/QUOTE]

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