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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6634625" data-attributes="member: 42582">You Forge-y types, always mixing your mechanical chocolate with my vanilla narrativism! (Or is it peanut butter? - I get confused.)I think that 6 might be a bit too many - in my (admittedly brief) experience GMing MHRP the 3 descriptors seemed about right; and Burning Wheel uses three beliefs (but also has traits and instincts filling something like the sam space).In the Law/Chaos game, I would drop power and justice, leaving Authority (which can include tradition), Community (which can also include tradition, as well as family, friends, voluntary associations, etc), Duty and Freedom. I guess, then, at d10, d8, d6 and d4.The paladin would have to be slightly amended:* Authority d10 (The long arm of God's law reaches from my torso to every person, big or small);
* Duty d8 (My country comes before my king and his court);
* Community d6 (My men all have families that deserve to see them again);
* Freedom d4 (Even when I have them cornered, some fools keep on resisting).But I'm not sure how this would work in D&amp;D, which doesn't have a Cortex-style dice pool. Maybe these could be used for 5-style inspiration triggers? Perhaps combined with Eberron-style action points - so the die can be used as a bonus on the d20 roll for the action declaration that engages/expresses the descriptor.Thinking about the mechanics is now making me want to swap around my paladin: the Freedom should be d6 and Community d4.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6634625, member: 42582"] You Forge-y types, always mixing your mechanical chocolate with my vanilla narrativism! (Or is it peanut butter? - I get confused.) I think that 6 might be a bit too many - in my (admittedly brief) experience GMing MHRP the 3 descriptors seemed about right; and Burning Wheel uses three beliefs (but also has traits and instincts filling something like the sam space). In the Law/Chaos game, I would drop [I]power[/I] and [I]justice[/I], leaving [I]Authority[/I] (which can include tradition), [I]Community[/I] (which can also include tradition, as well as family, friends, voluntary associations, etc), [I]Duty[/I] and [I]Freedom[/I]. I guess, then, at d10, d8, d6 and d4. The paladin would have to be slightly amended: [indent]* Authority d10 (The long arm of God's law reaches from my torso to every person, big or small); * Duty d8 (My country comes before my king and his court); * Community d6 (My men all have families that deserve to see them again); * Freedom d4 (Even when I have them cornered, some fools keep on resisting).[/indent] But I'm not sure how this would work in D&D, which doesn't have a Cortex-style dice pool. Maybe these could be used for 5-style inspiration triggers? Perhaps combined with Eberron-style action points - so the die can be used as a bonus on the d20 roll for the action declaration that engages/expresses the descriptor. Thinking about the mechanics is now making me want to swap around my paladin: the Freedom should be d6 and Community d4. [/QUOTE]

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