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Dr. Lunchables
Dec 27, 2012

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I've made a bare bones levels 1-10 D&D based of the Gamma World ruleset. I've gotta type up some words about combat and actual character creation, but it's a functional game right now.

What's going on with this poo poo:
  • randomly roll for chargen. Or pick from a list. Whatever. gently caress you.
  • less analysis paralysis, cause you've only got like three options
  • make a new character in literal minutes.
  • super lethal bullshit that sucks
  • remember D&D tactics cards? Now you can actually use them!
  • streamline everything down to the barest bones. Drop the fiddly bullshit. No tracking -2s ... (Can't remember if I did this)
  • fill in blanks later

Yeah, so look forward to that. I'll try to write it so you won't need any knowledge of the GW rules. I'll post it as a google doc some time this coming week.

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Dr. Lunchables
Dec 27, 2012

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I plan on cribbing whole chunks of 4e that will be altered for the slightly different system. Is this cool?

Dr. Lunchables
Dec 27, 2012

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Covok posted:

I don't really follow. If you mean your using a derivative system of 4e or borrowing alot of 4e then that is allowed.

I'm using the Gamma World system, itself a stripped down derivative of 4e. You answered my question dead on without really knowing what I was asking, so kudos.

Dr. Lunchables
Dec 27, 2012

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Thoughts on "roll under" abilities in place of skills? They fill the same rolls anyway in the framework, in some sense. Strong guy does strong stuff 90% of the time.

Dr. Lunchables
Dec 27, 2012

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What else would you make checks for? Outside of skill checks, I can't really think of anything. Using roll under for abilities is a pretty elegant system that actually makes ability scores significant.

Dr. Lunchables
Dec 27, 2012

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Does anything else? I can only think of saves, and roll under ability (con or whatever) would work pretty darn well for that. I am referring only to death saves, because any other saves suck. Save or X abilities do too.

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Dr. Lunchables
Dec 27, 2012

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I'm just gonna slap fantasy over gamma world and do a really half assed job. Whats a better name, Basic 4E, or Gamma Dragons?

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