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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imagicka" data-source="post: 1744289" data-attributes="member: 4621">Greetings...  I once read a book where some D&Ders were sucked into the reality that their DM had created.  Where they became the characters who they were playing, but had their own personalities/memories, along with the personalities/memories of their characters...which sometimes conflicted with each other in a multiple personality disorder schizophrenic situation.    However...in this book, one of the characters had his PC-persona nearly die, and was in the process of dying.  The rest of the characters then confront their evil-DM who turns out to be a great mage in this alternate-reality.  In the end, to save himself, this character chooses that he wants to be 'himself' and not his PC-persona, hoping to be returned to the 'real world'.  But what happens is he turns into his normal self, and remains in this alternate reality.  For the rest of the story, this character who is an engineering student starts perfecting metal-forging techniques and other such technologies and sciences.  The result of which, is that he ends up building firearms and with the help of the other characters starts a systematic attack on slavery in this alternate reality.   Just some food for thought.  I agree with everyone who's said 'buy stats'.  Just to keep things fair and not hurt the player's feelings.  Or, and this is a little tricky, have all the players assign stats to the other players (and not themselves), and take an average of those stats for each player.  Of course, personal affinaties towards players could come into play, giving good stats to people you like, and not to the ones you don't.  Also, I liked what was mentioned about meta-gaming knowledge.  In the same vain as what I mentioned above.  How do you give skills to players based on meta-gaming knowledge?  Like the character I mentioned above, if one of my friends ever got sucked into a D&Desk world, the first thing he would do is figure out what technological advancement would best suit him to become powerful in said world.  Be it creating firearms, or just starting with creating gunpower weapons and bombs.  Now, how do I measure my friend's engineering ability?    Well, I would tend to use a meta-gaming knowledge rule.  If my friend can suitably explain how to refine metal, and make a gun-barrel, and forge parts to make a firearm...great... then I would only make a simple difficult roll to see if the act was successful, not to see if the player/character had the suitable skills/knowledge to perform the act.</blockquote>

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