Post by Il Male™ on Jan 23, 2011 3:14:24 GMT -6
Yesterday night I realized that the 3LBBs already have a Skill System. Maybe I have just "discovered the hot water"* but I think I should share this.
"This evening I was working on a very seminal list of skills for Yaqqothl. I came up with six skills:
– Appraise
– Athletic
– Diplomacy
– Perception
– Underground Mastery
– Wilderness Survival
Then, while I was having a shower, I realized that all these skills are already covered in the 3LBBs or simply ignorable. It was kind of a shock to me. One by one:
– Appraise: You need an NPC to do that, and this is fine because characters are not merchants: they are adventurers.
– Athletic: There are rules to climb, jump and even swim in the 3LBBs, and this is all the athleticism I personally need.
– Diplomacy: Use the reaction table!
– Underground Mastery: If you can find secret doors, traps, slanting passages and so on just rolling a die, where is the exploration?
– Wilderness Survival: Anyone can set up a camp. If the characters have to hunt, you have stats for animals (check the supplements, the Monster Manual or whatever you want).
And finally, the most shocking one. I always wondered why in any pre-WotC edition of D&D there weren't rules to handle Perception. Now I know there always were: the Surprise roll is Perception. For example, say Grog the Rogue is moving silently to assassinate a guard. This is OD&D, so it is enough for the player to say "Grog moves silently", and he can easily do it if not wearing heavy armor. The DM knows that the guard is surprised with 1-2 in 6, and decide that since Grog is moving silently the probability that the guard is surprised increase to 1-3 in 6. Then he secretly rolls the die to check how the situation evolves..."
The original post is here. What do you think about that? Hope to have posted in the right section. Also, sorry for any grammar/syntax mistake.
*This is an italian saying, don't know which could be the equivalent in english. "Discovering the hot water" roughly means discover something that anyone already knows.
"This evening I was working on a very seminal list of skills for Yaqqothl. I came up with six skills:
– Appraise
– Athletic
– Diplomacy
– Perception
– Underground Mastery
– Wilderness Survival
Then, while I was having a shower, I realized that all these skills are already covered in the 3LBBs or simply ignorable. It was kind of a shock to me. One by one:
– Appraise: You need an NPC to do that, and this is fine because characters are not merchants: they are adventurers.
– Athletic: There are rules to climb, jump and even swim in the 3LBBs, and this is all the athleticism I personally need.
– Diplomacy: Use the reaction table!
– Underground Mastery: If you can find secret doors, traps, slanting passages and so on just rolling a die, where is the exploration?
– Wilderness Survival: Anyone can set up a camp. If the characters have to hunt, you have stats for animals (check the supplements, the Monster Manual or whatever you want).
And finally, the most shocking one. I always wondered why in any pre-WotC edition of D&D there weren't rules to handle Perception. Now I know there always were: the Surprise roll is Perception. For example, say Grog the Rogue is moving silently to assassinate a guard. This is OD&D, so it is enough for the player to say "Grog moves silently", and he can easily do it if not wearing heavy armor. The DM knows that the guard is surprised with 1-2 in 6, and decide that since Grog is moving silently the probability that the guard is surprised increase to 1-3 in 6. Then he secretly rolls the die to check how the situation evolves..."
The original post is here. What do you think about that? Hope to have posted in the right section. Also, sorry for any grammar/syntax mistake.
*This is an italian saying, don't know which could be the equivalent in english. "Discovering the hot water" roughly means discover something that anyone already knows.
