D&D General Vote Up A 5e-alike, Part 4.1 - Skills Tiebreaker

[Faolyn]

So yeah, there was mutually-exclusive tie. And I'm adding my favorite option back in as well, because I can.

Also, just for @Lanefan, one other question

(Because this one is particularly important, I extended the deadline to 4 days)

 

[Micah Sweet]

I'm with @Lanefan on roll under, unless I can get people behind my skill/feat combo as "proficiency" idea.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Wish I'd seen the earlier post, I could plug my "Medieval virtues" method: you have four Skills: Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, and Temperance. Rogues have proficiency in Fortitude (which is associated with the peasantry), Clerics with Prudence (which is associated with the clergy), Fighters with Justice (associated with the aristocracy), and Wizards with Temperance (associated with the merchant class).

 

[Lanefan]

Wish I'd seen the earlier post, I could plug my "Medieval virtues" method: you have four Skills: Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, and Temperance. Rogues have proficiency in Fortitude (which is associated with the peasantry), Clerics with Prudence (which is associated with the clergy), Fighters with Justice (associated with the aristocracy), and Wizards with Temperance (associated with the merchant class).

Justice, prudence...those sound very goodly and virtuous. How do they apply to less-than-goodly members of those classes?

Otherwise, intriguing idea.

 

[CreamCloud0]

just to clarify, attributes would be like skills except broader and not stat associated, having the 'thievery' attribute would give you proficiency on say, dex based sneaking and hiding, inteligence based investigating the vunerabilities of a building's security or charisma based bluffing?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Justice, prudence...those sound very goodly and virtuous. How do they apply to less-than-goodly members of those classes?

Otherwise, intriguing idea.

Maybe go with the Pendragon model there, with opposed virtues and vices.

 

[Faolyn]

To me, those virtues/vices seem less like stats and more like play guidelines--an interesting way to replace alignment, perhaps.

 

[Micah Sweet]

To me, those virtues/vices seem less like stats and more like play guidelines--an interesting way to replace alignment, perhaps.

It was kinda both, in that you could also make checks against them under certain circumstances. But of course Pendragon has actual skills as well.

 

[Faolyn]

Just bumping this up to get more visibility. We're still at a tie.

 

[CreamCloud0]

Just bumping this up to get more visibility. We're still at a tie.

seeing as this is still in a tiebreaker, what's your thoughts on just having the 5e skills as working as another set of attribute base concepts?