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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8899164" data-attributes="member: 29398">Hard to vote for the number-of-levels options as there's a big difference between playable range and theoretical range.  My preference is that while the theoretical is unlimited (and the rules would support this) the actual PC-playable range be only up to 10th-15th or so.  As the poll odesn't indicate whether the listed ranges are intended as playable or theoretical, I didn't vote for either option.As for things not on the list, I'd like to see:--- roll-under-stat mechanics for checks--- species-based stat modifiers, both positive and negative, with Human as the baseline default--- random rolling for stats, hit points, etc. as the expected means of char-gen; with the specific and intentional idea being a player comes up with a character's concept during or after rolling it up rather than before--- some sort of body-fatigue or wound-vitality hit point system--- PCs and NPCs use the same mechanics - if a PC can do/be something then by default an NPC can as well, and vice-versa (monsters than cannot be PCs, however, can use whatever mechanics make sense for their design)--- loose enough math to support considerable variance in party makeup e.g. different levels within the party, different party sizes, etc.--- some sort of lingering injury or incurability system such that e.g. if you're near death one day you can't get to full hit points the next--- strong suggestion, but not hard-coded, that results be gradated by how much a roll (for anything) succeeds or fails by (as opposed to a simple binary succeed-fail state)Looking at the poll so far I'm very surprised that categorical saving throws are doing so poorly; the source of the requirement to save should be part of what sets the save's difficulty, and that's what categorical saves try to reflect.</blockquote>

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