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<blockquote data-quote="Matt Thomason" data-source="post: 8926743" data-attributes="member: 6777331">Consider me interested!I would suggest a good starting point is to look at books that already do &quot;universal&quot; stats, such as Bruce Heard's excellent Calidar setting books, which have a universal stat system designed to convey all the necessary data for a creature/character/whatever and then a converter you use to get those stats into the system you're actually playing.The only difference would be that this would also need a converter to convert each system to the &quot;universal stat system&quot; as well. (Which avoids having to have numerous converters to take every possible system to every other possible system)The main complication is coming up with that intermediate &quot;universal stat&quot; format which can hold all of the data you'll potentially get from all those assorted systems.&nbsp; It'd certainly be an interesting problem to figure out, and likely one that's ever-expanding as new systems are added which introduce concepts there's not a place to store.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matt Thomason, post: 8926743, member: 6777331"] Consider me interested! I would suggest a good starting point is to look at books that already do "universal" stats, such as Bruce Heard's excellent Calidar setting books, which have a universal stat system designed to convey all the necessary data for a creature/character/whatever and then a converter you use to get those stats into the system you're actually playing. The only difference would be that this would also need a converter to convert each system [I]to[/I] the "universal stat system" as well. (Which avoids having to have numerous converters to take every possible system to every other possible system) The main complication is coming up with that intermediate "universal stat" format which can hold all of the data you'll potentially get from all those assorted systems. It'd certainly be an interesting problem to figure out, and likely one that's ever-expanding as new systems are added which introduce concepts there's not a place to store. [/QUOTE]

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