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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMH" data-source="post: 2176591" data-attributes="member: 24945">This is both a responce to the thread originator and some expansions on comments made by Alan.No, the hero has a maximum inital number of ranks of 3, but then there is no limit."Bit more"? Alternity is all skills based. If you want to ignore combat, you don't have to spend a single skill point in any of the 7 combat broad skills. And everyone can buy any skill- there is no exclusion at all.MOGA- Marginal (for skill checks that can't fail), Ordinary, Good and Amazing for successes and Critical Failure (on a 20) and Failure round out the possibilities.Let me write that again to emphasize it- almost everything in Alternity, except damage and armor rolls is a skill check. The rules allow for ability check like strength feat checks as well.Each die size with a change is called a step and the dice used are d4, d6, d8, d12 and d20 (and then multiples of d20 after that). So if you have a 3 step bonus, you roll d20 and subtract a d8. If you have a 2 step penalty, you add a d6. Don't ask why d10 are excluded. Some of the house rules at A.net use a 2d8 in place of d20.Armor is represented by a die roll that subtracts damage. Damage has 4 forms- stun, wound, mortal and fatigue.Please, if you have more questions go to Alternityrpg.net and ask on the messageboard there. Usually there are 3-4 of us there at any one time (and that usually includes me under my name- Derek Holland). Also there are thousands of pages of rules, setting and other stuff by the fans in the resources section. WoTC may not support it anymore, but it is far from dead.</blockquote>

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