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This says to me that you should be doing something like the WHFRP Careers advancement scheme, except not shit. Yep! We have two ways to make a character, initially: either through a lifepath system, which will probably wind up looking pretty similar to Traveller's terms thing; or, you get some smal...

I'm unsure if negative 3rd level characters are conceptually possible or in line with what you've told us about characters so far. For instance in D&D a first level warrior would have the hp to survive a single attack. I don't know if you can get lower than that and still describe your warrior ...

Those are all combat centric encounters, because I am relatively confident that I understand the scope of your mediation and artisanry. If I knew they types of questions to narrow down exploration I'd ask them, but I don't. That's fair. Was just pointing it out. Well my main point with each monster...

One red flag already. The Smash Bros problem. If you have a minigame where one character is The Best and could only be hindered by other PCs trying to assist, then that means everyone else will just wander off while that one PC acts. Examples of where the problem shows up in other games include Sha...

This is a rough sketch using the template from the linked post. Step One: Name the PCs I'll admit that I've been defaulting to "party," mostly because I'm most familiar with D&D and this game evolved out of many frustrations with 3e. However, I'm beginning to lean towards "caravan...

Yo. First post here. This place looks like exactly what I'm looking for. I have a game that I've been working on, off and on, for the past several years. Only problem is that pretty much every other forum I've encountered has been pretty much next to useless in terms of helping me with mechanical is...