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3 months ago ::
Mar 05, 2013 - 11:53PM
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What would it be?
I'd like to see ability/skill checks where each point of ability score matters (similar to the roll under version of AD&D). I'd like to see a module for that--not the non-standardized "roll under" part, but the numerical results: an 18 is 40% more likely to succeed than a 10.
I'm not sure how exactly to do it, but I'd be surprised if it couldn't be done in a couple paragraphs worth of a sidebar, so I'm hoping it will show up as a module. If not, I'll strongly consider houseruling it--and I'm trying to resist the urge.
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3 months ago ::
Mar 05, 2013 - 11:58PM
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Jun 28, 2006
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One thing I miss from 2e was how ability scores started doing special things once you got above 18, to represent their supernatural heights, beyond natural human ability. Constitution gave regeneration, while Intelligence gave immunity to low-level illusions. Having a 20 Wisdom felt really special in that edition. Now, not so much.
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3 months ago ::
Mar 06, 2013 - 12:05AM
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One thing I miss from 2e was how ability scores started doing special things once you got above 18, to represent their supernatural heights, beyond natural human ability. Constitution gave regeneration, while Intelligence gave immunity to low-level illusions. Having a 20 Wisdom felt really special in that edition. Now, not so much.
oh hell yeah, but I don't know if that'd be my one thing... damn this is a hard question.
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3 months ago ::
Mar 06, 2013 - 12:10AM
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Ooh, tough choice. It's hard to disagree with the OP (ability checks as d20 + ability score against DCs ranging from 15 to 35). Taking that one as a given, then, I'll go with the half-level scaling from 4E.
Because a level 17 fighter should have the same chance to hit another level 17 fighter as a level 3 fighter has to hit another level 3 fighter.
The metagame is not the game.
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3 months ago ::
Mar 06, 2013 - 12:11AM
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oh hell yeah, but I don't know if that'd be my one thing... damn this is a hard question.
I wouldn't say its my one thing, either. It's just the first thing that came to mind after reading the original post.
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3 months ago ::
Mar 06, 2013 - 12:53AM
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What would it be?
I'd like to see ability/skill checks where each point of ability score matters (similar to the roll under version of AD&D). I'd like to see a module for that--not the non-standardized "roll under" part, but the numerical results: an 18 is 40% more likely to succeed than a 10.
I'm not sure how exactly to do it, but I'd be surprised if it couldn't be done in a couple paragraphs worth of a sidebar, so I'm hoping it will show up as a module. If not, I'll strongly consider houseruling it--and I'm trying to resist the urge.
To d20ise the 2nd ed ones. d20+ ability score works vs DC20, the same as roll under your score.
Reducing a character to a list of dice rolls and modifiers is not role playing*
*pg 30, AD&D 2nd Ed DMG, 1989.
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3 months ago ::
Mar 06, 2013 - 4:04AM
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THACO
Yep, definately THACO.
THACO was great, because not everybody could calculate whether or not they hit as well as I could, so it made me feel superior.
OK, seriously then: a PC not needing a bonus coming from every stat to be considered a good character, with stats with no bonuses still being meaningful. Is that two things?
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3 months ago ::
Mar 06, 2013 - 4:07AM
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What would it be?
I'd like to see ability/skill checks where each point of ability score matters (similar to the roll under version of AD&D). I'd like to see a module for that--not the non-standardized "roll under" part, but the numerical results: an 18 is 40% more likely to succeed than a 10.
I'm not sure how exactly to do it, but I'd be surprised if it couldn't be done in a couple paragraphs worth of a sidebar, so I'm hoping it will show up as a module. If not, I'll strongly consider houseruling it--and I'm trying to resist the urge.
I read the thread title, and came here to say that "roll under" would probably be my one thing. No fair asking the question and answering it for me, OP! 
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3 months ago ::
Mar 06, 2013 - 5:07AM
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If you could bring back only one thing from a previous edition... What would it be?
I'd bring back the rule from late in 1e AD&D that Field and Full Plate Armor offered the wearer 1-2 points of DR per die of damage rolled in addition to providing an already high Armor Class.
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3 months ago ::
Mar 06, 2013 - 5:08AM
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Template/monster/racial classes.
"Say me what you're showing off for, and I'll say you what you lack!" (Spanish saying)
Book 13 Anaclet 23
Confucius said: "The Superior Man is in harmony but does not follow the crowd. The inferior man follows the crowd, but is not in harmony"
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