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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Check This Out

Stuart over at Robertson Games has a series of posts about taking OD&D/Swords & Wizardry attribute scores and making them descriptive instead of numeric.

I think it is brilliant and makes the low attribute modifiers really interesting.

Check it out if you haven't.

4 comments:

  1. Interesting thought. IIRC, the Marvel Superhero RPG was similar in that it named levels in particular feats/skills, but still had a random (dice system) element.

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  2. Heretics, all! Actually, I recall something similar in a game system called, if I remember correctly, FUDGE?

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  3. Yeah, fudge, fate, PDQ, RISUS... all have something kinda like this but I never thought about how well it worked with the no-to-low attribute modifiers of OD&D. I think it is a pretty cool adaptation.

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  4. Thanks - glad you guys liked the articles. :)

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