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<blockquote data-quote="Anselyn" data-source="post: 5772534" data-attributes="member: 55456">I suggest that this column:&quot;Minimalist D&amp;D
Legends &amp; Lore Archive | 7/5/2011
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when
there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry&quot;&nbsp;May mean that you strip back to ability scores and the essence of OD&amp;D is roll some abilties, choose a class and start to play.&nbsp;AC= DEXHP = CONWIS = &quot;know roll&quot; (c.f. BRP) for knowledge skills INT = &quot;idea roll&quot; (c.f. BRP) for puzzling out traps and mechanismsCHA = influence roll....(Not sure how to tie to hit rolls to STR - and you want a unified system of roll-under or roll-over. )&nbsp;But at this level of boil-down every ability point counts and you don't need any table to refer to before you can start play.&nbsp;BTW - is the d20 sacred? What do we think? One way to have a gritty/epic setting is to change the dice you roll.&nbsp;d20 + ability vs target number3d6 + ability vs target numberd10 + abilty vs target number</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anselyn, post: 5772534, member: 55456"] I suggest that this column:[FONT=HiroshigeStd-Book][SIZE=7][COLOR=#1b3f60][FONT=HiroshigeStd-Book][SIZE=7][COLOR=#1b3f60] [LEFT][/LEFT][/COLOR][LEFT][/left][/SIZE][LEFT][/left][/FONT][LEFT][/left][/COLOR][LEFT][/left][/SIZE][LEFT][/left][/FONT][LEFT]"Minimalist D&D Legends & Lore Archive | 7/5/2011 “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”[/LEFT] — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry" May mean that you strip back to ability scores and the essence of OD&D is roll some abilties, choose a class and start to play. AC= DEX HP = CON WIS = "know roll" (c.f. BRP) for knowledge skills INT = "idea roll" (c.f. BRP) for puzzling out traps and mechanisms CHA = influence roll .... (Not sure how to tie [I]to hit[/I] rolls to STR - and you want a unified system of roll-under or roll-over. ) But at this level of boil-down every ability point counts and you don't need any table to refer to before you can start play. BTW - is the d20 sacred? What do we think? One way to have a gritty/epic setting is to change the dice you roll. d20 + ability vs target number 3d6 + ability vs target number d10 + abilty vs target number [/QUOTE]

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