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I was always a fan of breaking it down to mind, body, spirit. If you move away from the classic 6 for a fantasy heart-breaker it would be better to have less stats instead of more. Stats need to be conceived in parallel to class, as the less stats do the more class needs to pick up, but gating off t...

i'm not convinced, you're still on a scale where animals have an int of 3 and at 0 they essentially become paralyzed for *reasons*, i would generally recommend creatures become vegetables around -10 instead, but you could argue that even vegetables react to stimulus. Int always has been problematic,...

There doesn't have to be "all" escalating conditions. But having a few stacking conditions does everything you want ability damage to do and none of the crazy bullshit that you don't. ... What I liked about ability damage is that once you're familiar with what str or con does it's pretty ...

If you're dealing with tiers and non linearity you may have to throw out the CR system and rate monsters on an EL scale only. IE so, 1 marilith might be an EL 10 4 frost giants EL 10 army of orcs EL 10 Within a monster block it could list suggested encounters, so for frost giant Solitary frost giant...

Convoluting the entire stats system over carrying capacity is probably the wrong design decision. Besides carrying capacity could still be modeled with granularity in other ways. For example, it should probably a function of size and strength with optional racial modifiers (ie dwarves get a +20% bon...

Why don't stats just all baseline at 0, and be a modifier of +0, and a strength of 1 is a +1 modifier, cuts out all the fiddly conversions of '-10 divide by 2' and is a one less chart for new players to look up. I'd also probably cut levels in half, so there's only 10 levels in the game, each level ...

Paizo has a hate boner for adding dex to damage. Is there a real reason for that or is it Paizo being contrary for the sake of being contrary? Something something god stat maybe. Dex is very good, and maybe having a SAD fighter is too overwhelming for paizo, but CHA is probably the god stat of path...

various sub systems like morale might be easier if we had even a skeleton of a rule set. I'll try to model 3.x combat, but I'm not great at math and I don't know how it'll scale. at it's most basic a 'unit' would get wounds, a +hit, AC, and attacks. for conversion we would say 5hp = 1 wound, +hit is...