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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadow Over Mystara" data-source="post: 8201603" data-attributes="member: 7029539">Great post, it's a masterpiece!I'd rather drop the alignment system from the game altogether, but this was always my favorite way to implement it. I would just add one more: Unaligned, which would be the default for most PCs and NPCs alike. Paladins would be Lawful, Druids would be Neutral, and Clerics would match their patron deity, because that's a big part of what those classes are about, but everyone else would just be Unaligned unless a PC specifically requested an alignment.Personally I much preferred that approach to ability scores. I get why we moved away from it but I think the 3e-5e system of getting an additional +1 every other point, and having those modifiers apply to many more things, is LESS needed in 3e-5e due to skills, feats, subclasses, and other customization options that weren't around in previous editions.And hit point progression plateauing at "Name" level was like the E6 (I guess it would be E9?) of the old days! I'd like to see it brought back. Still the best name for it IMO!I love all of these and hope they come back in some form! Initiative by side, with weapon speed determining order, was elegant in being simple yet still encouraging the PCs to coordinate in battle.And not only does a morale system just make sense, even in a fictional fantasy setting, it goes really well with XP-for-treasure. I'd like combat to be an interesting and an assumed part of the game, yet still have it be an obstacle to the ultimate goal rather than the goal itself.The one change I would make to any of the editions prior to 3e. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f635.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?    o_O"  data-smilie="12"data-shortname="o_O" />Great point, this is probably part of why BECMI/RC Fighter always seemed the least generic to me. As in all editions it was still a simple class, but out-of-the-box I felt it had more flavor than usual.</blockquote>

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