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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6045458" data-attributes="member: 29398">I'd say I've mostly already done all that.  My pie-in-the-sky dream would be to drag the rest of the game along with me, but I'm not holding my breath... <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=":)" />  But the game I play now has but a passing similarity to the 1e D&D it started as in terms of rules or system; though the 1e high risk-high reward spirit is alive and well.Classless?  Never.  Build every creature from the ground up?  I'd love to, if I ever had the time.  Instead I've been thinking of ways to split apart some of the things that make a creature tick - right now its level (if NPC) or HD (if monster) define a lot of things that would be better served by being separate: Combat skill, hit points or hit point range, saving throw capabilities, skills and abilities, to name some.I'd prefer to be able to have an NPC Sneaky-type, for example, with the Thieving skills (open locks, pick pockets, etc.) of a 6th level Thief but the combat abilities of a commoner and the saving throws of a 9 HD monster.  Now one could easily say it's my game and I can do what I want and it would be true, but the internal consistency of the game world falls apart unless I can define it all somehow.For PCs this split would open up a bunch of options as well, which again would require an extensive re-design.It is a bucketful of work.  But it's just a big a bucketful to learn a whole new system and then tweak that to suit what I want, so it simply becomes a choice of which work I'd rather do.Lanefan</blockquote>

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