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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9128363" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Hey all! It's been a while since I've posted to this particular forum.I'm making, for personal use only, an &quot;OSR-ified&quot; Level Up. I.e., condensed and simplified. Like, each heritage has two traits and a gift, there are cultures (each of which also has two traits plus languages) but no backgrounds or destinies, only three classes and ten levels, streamlined combat maneuvers, stuff like that. I say &quot;personal use&quot; because I'm stealing ideas from all over the place so there's no way that this could ever be legally published. Heck, I even stole the idea from [USER=15700]@Sacrosanct[/USER]'s Bugbears and Borderlands, which looks awesome, although I haven't had the chance to play it yet.Plus this &quot;LU OSR&quot; has several differences I want to experiment, like no attack spells for Mages outside of cantrips (as I said on another thread, I don't mind wizards going pew pew, but I don't necessarily want them fireballing all over the place). It's also personal because I have zero idea if I'll ever actually run a game using this system. Making it is just a bit of autistic obsession. I'm also making PbtA World of Darkness game at the same time. My brain is weird. It's still far too complicated for most of the OSR-type games I've seen, but it's much more streamlined than regular LU and more importantly (to me), it contains the choices in creating PCs that I rarely see in OSR games.(<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ApMqMh4AnkoOklrP5VVctXqEUhfGIHxZ8xCUKH6TGYg/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Here it is. </a>It's not done and may undergo dramatic changes. Comments are allowed and welcomed.)But then there's monsters.Monsters are complicated in D&amp;D, and more so in Level Up, since they have so many more (interesting) traits and actions. And I'm having a heck of a time figuring out how to simplify them while still keeping the abilities that make them interesting and without resorting to putting their abilities in the flavor text.Any thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 9128363, member: 6915329"] Hey all! It's been a while since I've posted to this particular forum. I'm making, for personal use only, an "OSR-ified" Level Up. I.e., condensed and simplified. Like, each heritage has two traits and a gift, there are cultures (each of which also has two traits plus languages) but no backgrounds or destinies, only three classes and ten levels, streamlined combat maneuvers, stuff like that. I say "personal use" because I'm stealing ideas from all over the place so there's no way that this could ever be legally published. Heck, I even stole the [I]idea [/I]from [USER=15700]@Sacrosanct[/USER]'s [B]Bugbears and Borderlands[/B], which looks awesome, although I haven't had the chance to play it yet. Plus this "LU OSR" has several differences I want to experiment, like no attack spells for Mages outside of cantrips (as I said on another thread, I don't mind wizards going pew pew, but I don't necessarily want them [I]fireballing [/I]all over the place). It's also personal because I have zero idea if I'll ever actually run a game using this system. Making it is just a bit of autistic obsession. I'm also making PbtA World of Darkness game at the same time. My brain is weird. It's still far too complicated for most of the OSR-type games I've seen, but it's much more streamlined than regular LU and more importantly (to me), it contains the choices in creating PCs that I rarely see in OSR games. ([URL='https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ApMqMh4AnkoOklrP5VVctXqEUhfGIHxZ8xCUKH6TGYg/edit?usp=sharing']Here it is. [/URL]It's not done and may undergo dramatic changes. Comments are allowed and welcomed.) But then there's monsters. Monsters are complicated in D&D, and more so in Level Up, since they have so many more (interesting) traits and actions. And I'm having a heck of a time figuring out how to simplify them while still keeping the abilities that make them interesting and without resorting to putting their abilities in the flavor text. Any thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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