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Hi wimlach. Interesting, though I think skills development should be limited to just the skills -I'm leave Professions with their fixed base values for Attack, Defense, Stealth and the like since letting people choose between having +1 attack and getting a skill means a choice between powerful...

Thanks, I'll check it out. (I think I tried ages back (prior to the new Mongoose release) to join a DW yahoogroup and never had my application approved...I don't remember for sure if that was Dragwars or one of the other DW yahoo groups, though).

Well, no idea if I'm representative or not. Via the DW wiki, there seems to be substantial pushes in all sorts of directions - from people opposed to any change, to complete revision to a new system, to using GURPS, FATE, Pathfinder or Savage Worlds. The main person suggesting "revamp" there is...

Sorry, maybe I wasn't following you? The setup just reminded me of the HERO system approach where you buy the 17 or so stats (from STR to STUN and BODY) all from the same point pool starting with base values? Just reading your post I hope I haven't given you the idea I had an official...

Thanks Dominik. I'm somewhat familiar with HERO 6th Ed. so I've seen this before. I believe that there should be some flow between the stats - a character with a high Reflexes should have a high Evasion, for example. If there's no derivation and they're bought with the same pool of points the...

I am starting to think that any revision is inevitably going to have everyone disagreeing over what to revise. Probably the nature of the beast. :( Well, the beginning is as good a place as any :) With the creation process: I'd separate out the main [rolled or purchased]'Characteristics' and...

For interest sake - here's a weapons chart table a friend wrote up awhile back, revising armour bypass and damage values. Note that they've rebalanced maces/warhammers against swords by giving the former good armour bypass (which I believe is fairly realistic; maces I believe historically being...

Cheers :) I could see the GURPS coming through! I've always been "GURPS curious" but don't know anyone in the local area who plays it, though I sort of know a few people online who do. I'd agree its a good idea to have more variation in the Professions, especially Knights. The last houserule I...

Thanks for the well wishes, RC. alms66: that opens up a couple of cans of wyrms, actually, for which I don't have all the answers. First off, in a revamping, how much change would people think is allowable before it becomes an all new game? D&D for example kept its original 6-stat system...

Sorry I missed this earlier, somehow. Had a look, its an interesting system. Given that it replaces a hard limit with misfires it sort of reminds me of the Mystic system in a way. Talislanta 4th Ed. has a similar system, where spellcasting requires a roll (d20+Magic modifier) with a penalty that...

That's the FATE (FUDGE variant?) system?? I haven't tried it, but that's about as far as you can get from the standard DW system...everything rated with descriptive ranks e.g. Good, Great, Superb with aspect tagging for bonuses/penalties?? If possible, I'd like to focus this thread on...

alms66: thanks! I'd agree with most of that. There could easily be multiple different ability generation methods, as long as they've all reasonably balanced. I think a point-buy system would work, though if so HPs would probably have to be purchased as well (we tried "point buy" and rolled HPs...

I'm new here so forgive me if I'm covering old ground, but given the current publishing situation for DW, I though this might be an appropriate forum to discuss what sort of things a "revised" edition of DW might incorporate, assuming the system was kept at least somewhat similar ? There's alot...