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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9247169" data-attributes="member: 6779310">The only special result truly missing is the impale result. Doubling a hit's damage but losing your next attack or two pulling the weapon free is, while not unrealistic, excessively common.  And it becomes more common as skill increases, which is a verisimilitude issue.Crits get more common - both ends - but that's not a huge difference. It's a bit more vague.The personality traits are a difference of note - but the processes of them are firmly grounded in the processes of BRP - opposed rolls resolved in 5% increments, most flavors use starting values for abilities in 5% increments. Use it to raise it.Proceduraly, the only novelties of Pendragon are <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">making the experience check resolution annual instead of per session or adventure.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Note that BRP 1e was per session</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RQ3 is per adventure.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">using traits/passions to limit or enable specific actions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">using passions to boost skills. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the switch to figured personal damage modified by weapon from weapon damage modified by character.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">High-but-not-over rolling.</li> </ul>The use of up to ±50% modifier increments for difficulty is not novel; Elfquest has mods to -50 for perception and stealth, all in 5% increments, It also has a skill vs skill procedure.RQ3 uses attribute × 5% chances for some resistance rolls, rather than the resistance table. Most modifiers are in 5% increments.[HR][/HR]Coming back onto topic... RuneQuest 3rd Ed - my introduction to use it to raise it. (A week later, I found ElfQuest used. I have run more EQ than RQ...) Currently referencing the GW version. Pages 19-21.Training in RQ3 takes considerable time - hours equal to current experience %ile.  Maximum of 50 hours per week. Maximum of 75%. Provides a 1d-2 increase, and this can be negative.Not all RQ3 skills are raisable by use - mostly academic; these remove the training cap.Research/Self-training/Practice - takes 1 hour per current percent, requires rolling over the current %, and then grants the  choice of 1d6-2 or 1 point.Experience checks, on those skills which allow them, require a success in a "stressful situation," then end of the adventure, roll over current % to raise by choice of 1d6 or 3 points.King Arthur Pendragon 4th EdNote: the High-but-not-over is used a lot, since most rolls in KAP are opposed.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Skills are ticked when a critical success is scored. That's when the d20 rolls exactly the target number.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Skills can be ticked when the GM allows on a successful check in "time of crisis" or "significant use" (different pages use different wording)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Skills can also be ticked for use in one of the "solo" activities. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Once characters have a manor, the Your Own Land solo is nigh-obligatory; it's run as the first step in Winter Phase.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the solos generally tick a skill that would be used often but in low stress.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">During the winter phase, roll over any ticked skill to raise it by 1. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Any skill of 20+ is still raised on a roll of a nat 20.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Winter Phase one option from...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">add 1d6 points to one skill, raising it no further than 15; excess go to another skill of choice also capped at 15, recursive while points remain.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">add one point to a skill to a maximum of 20</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">add one point to an attribute not to exceed maximum cultural rollable value</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">add one point to a Personality Trait, not to exceed 19.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">add one point to a  Passion, not to exceed 20.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Winterphase, when new glory is finally applied, each 1000 pt threshold crossed gives 1 point to anything but size; it can be size if under age 24. Glory gains can exceed all the above limits.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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