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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eternalknight" data-source="post: 2749445" data-attributes="member: 1075">I started my re-write today.  The first thing I did was copy True 20 and get rid of every other die, and use only a d20.  I am considering, however, only using other dice for damage rolls, but not sure.The second thing I took a look at was ability scores.  Every edition of D&D has the six ability scores, ranked (usually) 3-18.  Most d20 games do this too.  So, I am keeping the six abilities.However, True20 does something different, and it was something that I considered doing over twelve months ago as well, but the people I spoke to at the time hated the idea.  However, since this is MY d20 rules, I am gonna do it my way <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=":)" />When I first put the argument forward, I argued that ability scores (in the 3-18 sense) were redundant.  After all, the ability scores are there just to determine what the final ability score modifier is; it is the ability score modifier that really counts.  I had proposed to get rid of ability scores and just use the modifiers.  Then True 20 came out and did that.  So, that is what I am going to do.There will be three methods to determine the scores.Method I:  Default array:  +2, +2, +1, +1, +0, -1, arranged as desired.Method II: Points buy:  5 points to spread between the six scores; scores can be assigned a negative number in order to gain bonus points (eg, a -1 score gives a 1 extra point).  No score can be assigned a score below -4 or above +4.Method III:  Random roll.  Haven't worked out how I am going to do this one yet.So far it looks similar to True 20, and it is (I told you I was in love with the system).  I am already working on in my head classes and races, and I think it will differ there somewhat.</blockquote>

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