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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 4475049" data-attributes="member: 3649">I would combine the 3.0 emphasis on customization and the 1E idea of modular systems that can be interchanged without breaking each other (much).I'd add on UA/True20's idea of archtypical 'classes' and pare everything down to Warrior/Caster/Expert, then build characters based on several 'paths'. For ease of play, we'd return to the idea of kits, plug-in sets of paths and abilities that mirror your major literary and genre figures: Old Wizard, Farmboy Hero, etc.Instead of a million seperate feats, we have several overarching options that change based on level, 'class', and 'path'. We use some of the 'skill blocks' ideas from Iron Heroes and 4E to create customizable 'class' skills (really 'my skills') packages that go up per level, while leaving the rest of the skills as 'hobby' skills that you might pick up a few ranks in here and there; these are the things skill points get used for.Weapons are skills, now, and we use something like the weapon mastery rules in Rules Cyclopedia for high skills in particular types of weapons. Of course you're going to know more tricks and be able to 'wring' more of of your weapon as a weapon master than some kid who just picked up a sword yesterday.Spells are replaced by powers, which can scale and mutate according to options you choose and 'campaign dials' you set when you create a campaign. In essence, you create a new game every time you fiddle with these things. People can buy the various campaign books if they wish, which set these dials for them, or deal with them themselves. I can have a grim-and-gritty dark ages campaign where a notched sword is the equivilant of the atomic bomb, or a carnival-like magic-faire fairy-tale setting where we go to the moon on hippogryph-back to fight pistol-weilding space-hippos.The last thing we steal is from M&M, where we replace the dice with just the d20.It's $15, one book that's less than 200 pages.</blockquote>

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