As a suggestion for a classless D20 - go through all of the classes and
prestige classes and strip out the "Class Features" and then rewrite them
all as Feats with appropriate (and balanced) pre-requisites.
Your characters will then be generated with "X" feats + "Y" skill points.
Make the prerequisites for all these Feats largely dependent either on
pre-requisite feats, OR achieving a certain number of ranks in a particular
skill.
Instead of assigning XP, the GM then assigns skill points for each
adventure, with a new feat being granted after every 10 (or 5, or 7, or
however many) skill points are awarded. The players can use skill points
and assign feats as they wish.
Combat with a specific type of weapon can be a "skill" with each plus put
into it adding to TO HIT . . .
Spells would have to be worked out . . .
I have been working on "converting" the "Class Features" to "Feats" for a
week or so now and am about 1/3 done. If anyone wants I will share this
with them...
Faust
>I don't understand why a classless d20 would have class and cross-class
>costed skills. Surely the point of a classless system is to create a
>character to your specifications and rationalisation without being forced
>into a direction based on class specific costs.
>
>If certain skills are strictly occupational (lockpicking etc.) then why not
>have the characters buy guild ranks for access to these skills. That way
>you preserve the flavour of the world with a rationale for restricted skill
>access. Fading Suns uses this to good effect with Guild proscribed
>knowledges.
>
>The other route is to create occupation packages of skills at a discount;
>but this essentially re-creates classes ala Warhammer FRPG. Not a bad
>direction, but not truly classless.
>
>Lionel
>
>|-----Original Message-----
>|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron Day
>|Sent: 25 January 2001 09:49
>|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>|Subject: [ogf-d20-l] Classless d20 ideas needed
>|
>|
>|I've been working on a classless d20 Star Wars for a while now but
>|I've got one
>|major stumbling block.
>|
>|Right now, skills are either class or cross-class, costing 1 or 2
>|points per
>|rank.
>|
>|When converting Base Attack to a skill I've noticed that the Base
>|Attack value
>|is either +1 per level (as a class skill), +1 per 2 levels (as a
>|cross-class) or
>|+2 per 3 levels (hmmm).
>|
>|I want to create a type of skill halfway between class and
>|cross-class but that
>|skill will end up costing 1.5 points per rank. To avoid half
>|points I've doubled
>|everything so:
>|
>|Class skills = 2 points per rank
>|Cross-class skills = 4 points per rank
>|Semi-class skills = 3 points per rank.
>|
>|Its workable but inelegant.
>|
>|
>|Anyone have any ideas on this?
>
>
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