tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75969356290768643152024-03-09T18:46:27.821-08:00Homebrew HomunculusHomebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-8715056488412776912021-05-16T14:51:00.012-07:002021-05-17T06:02:10.677-07:00The game that invented epic loot: Angband (1990)<p></p><p><b><br /><i>Angband </i></b>is a 1990 computer game in the subgenre of turn-based permadeath dungeon-crawling RPGs, also known as roguelikes. Very few people play <i>Angband </i>today, and most PC gamers have likely never heard of it - even when they've likely heard of <i>NetHack</i> and <i>Dwarf Fortress</i>. But did you know that the randomized equipment or "loot" so common in video games today was originally an innovation of <i>Angband</i>? </p><p>Today, these "loot lotteries" <a href="https://www.giantbomb.com/color-coded-loot/3015-4702/">go far beyond</a> just RPGs: the same blue "rares" and purple "epics" can be seen in the mainstream from mobile games to <i> Fortnite</i>, <i>Destiny</i>, and <i>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive</i>. We tend to talk a lot about the principles that make these systems <a href="https://kotaku.com/why-video-game-loot-is-so-addictive-according-to-the-c-1846695147">compelling and even addictive</a>. But what is less often discussed is how the concept's introduction into the mainstream of commercial games came largely through the vision of a single passionate <i>Angband</i> fan.</p>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.softpaz.com/screenshots/angband-angband-team/4.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="800" height="349" src="https://www.softpaz.com/screenshots/angband-angband-team/4.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Angband's items aren't entirely colour-coded by their rarity, just by category...</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></td></tr></tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lparchive.org/Angband/Update%2008/35-angband-08-34.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="642" src="https://lparchive.org/Angband/Update%2008/35-angband-08-34.png" width="100%" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>...However, artifacts are set apart by their names that glow in light
blue. Might this choice be inspired by Bilbo's glowing sword, Sting?</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><br /></p><p><i><br /></i></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">The roots of loot</h3><p></p><i></i>
<p>Like its predecessor <i><b>Moria </b></i>(1983), <i>Angband </i>is an unoffical Tolkien fangame, pitting the player against Sauron and
Morgoth. (It got away with this by being free and open-source; don't
try doing this in a for-profit game.)</p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UaYF2qJmLHdJIdhE65-rWTTUjZKj6VNNGlKLDCqR9Rawz1VMypfdR9Sl22x_e-rYws9ExgDCFWKyTYZ4hoJwIBqONBeDVj19NbheywksYz-gOVj-9KKW1FvPHoOKQ1ZoxoxhIlpz7rA/s561/od%2526d+booklet+2.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="352" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UaYF2qJmLHdJIdhE65-rWTTUjZKj6VNNGlKLDCqR9Rawz1VMypfdR9Sl22x_e-rYws9ExgDCFWKyTYZ4hoJwIBqONBeDVj19NbheywksYz-gOVj-9KKW1FvPHoOKQ1ZoxoxhIlpz7rA/w200-h320/od%2526d+booklet+2.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Monsters & Treasure booklet.</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>In the procedurally generated halls of Morgoth's fortress, the player can chance upon a variety of items on the floor or dropped by slain enemies. The item drops are randomly determined. There's nothing unique about this in itself, of course - the same could be said for <i><b>Rogue </b></i>(1980) and, in fact, pen-and-paper roleplaying games starting with the very first publication of <i><b>Dungeons & Dragons</b></i> (1974).<br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"></h3><p>From the very beginning, the methods of generating loot were quite complex. In the original D&D game's second booklet, <b>Monsters & Treasure</b>, each monster is given a treasure type, for example: <i>Giant, 5,000 GP + Type E</i>. This indicates a giant lair will contain at least five thousand gold coins worth of treasure, plus potentially other things determined by a series of dice rolls on row E of the <i>treasure types table</i>. The table lists chances for several categories of treasure, each of which is rolled separately: separate chances for each type of coin, gems, and, finally, "Maps or Magic". For Type E, the entry for this last category reads: </p><blockquote><p>30%: any 3 + 1 Scroll <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><i>(Gygax & Arneson. Vol 2. p. 22, Dungeons & Dragons. TSR, 1974.)</i></p></blockquote><p></p><p>This means that the dungeon master rolls a d100, and on a result of 1-30, magic items are present. If so, the DM then proceeds to roll on the magic item lists: once on the Scrolls table to determine the type of the scroll, and three rolls for the other items of randomly determined categories (swords, potions, wands, etc.).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJE8zjbAjRLIfIykhIJhIw82A2I4SeDuRnAJ6raN-xk9Y1-C1VhbWAkhtHG51dvWH_C10rDLreex1HWUbS_1Y9ZzfiaX-Pra5HUWZeg_bkaEf-Hp-MlGl_SWCvInrhZcArM-At5qQlRyA/s972/od%2526d+treasure+type+e.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="972" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJE8zjbAjRLIfIykhIJhIw82A2I4SeDuRnAJ6raN-xk9Y1-C1VhbWAkhtHG51dvWH_C10rDLreex1HWUbS_1Y9ZzfiaX-Pra5HUWZeg_bkaEf-Hp-MlGl_SWCvInrhZcArM-At5qQlRyA/w640-h184/od%2526d+treasure+type+e.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Treasure Type E, used for giants, elves, and some of the more dangerous undead.</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /> <br />So this all adds up to the dungeon master making up to 15 rolls generate the treasure in a giants' lair. That's the worst case scenario, of course - but, on top of those rolls, some items have further details to be determined: if the scroll is a spell scroll, then the spells written on it will need to be determined, and so on...</p><p>It's quite an involved process, and has not grown particularly more complex in later games - at least as long as a human brain and a pencil are used to do the generating. (Of course, a game master is not beholden to these guidelines, and
may choose to instead place items using their own judgment.)</p><p>When computers began to be used for generating dungeons, they had no such limitations:<b> a computer can make thousands of simulated die rolls a second</b>. Now, the greater challenge lies in designing the rules in such a way as to generate results that are interesting, varied, and balanced, even after countless repetitions. On the other hand, the computer does not have the benefit of using common sense or imagination. It cannot choose to occasionally ignore a rule here and there, scrap a nonsensical result, or suddenly create an entirely novel type of item. The designer must specify all the rules and parameters exactly.<br /></p><p>In the same D&D booklet, rules for magic swords were described. Swords were unique among magic weapons in that they could have personalities: the sword's alignment was rolled, as well as values for its <b>intelligence </b>and <b>egoism</b>. These were numeric statistics similar to those of player characters. If the sword's intelligence was sufficiently high, it was sentient and communicated telepathically, and potentially had a number of randomly
chosen special powers such as detecting magic, flight, or telekinesis.</p><p>Sentient swords with a high egoism score were able to exert their influence on the wielder, initiating a battle of wills. Mechanically, this was a contested roll using the sword's egoism statistic against the wielder's statistics, with the winner gaining control over the other. These rules for mental conflict were designed to emulate the cursed swords in literature - specifically, Elric of Mélnibone's struggles with his runeblade <b>Stormbringer </b>in the many stories written by Michael Moorcock.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>Randarts: Stormbringer goes electric<br /></h3><p></p>
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So, if loot has been randomly scattered throughout the dungeon in RPGs ever since RPGs existed, what made <i>Angband </i>so unique in its day? How did it impact the history of video games far beyond the roguelike genre, starting with <i><b>Diablo</b> </i>(1997) and <i><b>World of Warcraft</b></i> (2004), like I claimed earlier?</p><p>The key innovation of <i>Angband </i>was randomly generated artifacts or <b>"randarts"</b>. This feature is arguably what made <i>Diablo </i>such
an addictive game - and a game that printed money for Blizzard
Entertainment and has been a part of their winning formula ever since. </p><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lparchive.org/Angband/Update%2060/12-angband-60-12.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="618" height="162" src="https://lparchive.org/Angband/Update%2060/12-angband-60-12.png" width="254" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Angband's randarts can get quite elaborate.</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYyvhLI9BjmzwtwaZmSH5NjQoce6ZkpBBLruBrErkHgrVnf1uimWRIwLXCyYDpn5eB_Zv7gmxQWcUtCF5RG5AeSFgEEDgOpZizhOpdSklmq9ufaRNlo6IZtikT9poAcU3m6SQooqZZFrc/s317/wow+epic+bloodrazor+2.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYyvhLI9BjmzwtwaZmSH5NjQoce6ZkpBBLruBrErkHgrVnf1uimWRIwLXCyYDpn5eB_Zv7gmxQWcUtCF5RG5AeSFgEEDgOpZizhOpdSklmq9ufaRNlo6IZtikT9poAcU3m6SQooqZZFrc/s16000/wow+epic+bloodrazor+2.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A weapon of Epic rarity in </i><i><i>World of Warcraft</i>.</i></td></tr></tbody></table> </p>
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<p>Randarts took a base item, such as a dagger or a tower shield, and modified it by adding multiple properties or "intrinsics", often with further randomized numeric values, some activated powers, and so on. By laying these randomized properties on top of each other in different combinations, an effectively endless variety of equipment is generated. For example: <br /></p><blockquote><i>the Mace 'Taratol' (3d4) (+12,+12)</i> <br /></blockquote><blockquote><i>Slays dragons (powerfully).
Branded with lightning.
Provides immunity to lightning.
Cannot be harmed by acid, fire.
When activated, it hastens you for d20+20 turns.</i></blockquote><p>These randomly named artifacts were supplemented by fixed artifacts from the Tolkien legendarium, such as the <i>Phial of Galadriel</i>. Additionally, there were randomly-created magic items with no proper names but which appended a suffix "...of X" to the item's name:</p><blockquote><p><i>Iron Helm of Seeing<br />Chain Mail of Resistance<br />Mithril Arrows of Frost</i><br /></p></blockquote><p>The "X of Y" naming is immediately recognizable to anyone who has played an MMORPG. Of course, many of these properties were directly copied from D&D as well. In the <i>Angband </i>fandom, and later roguelikes such as <i><b>Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup</b></i> (2006), these properties are called <b>"brands"</b> (cf. <i>"frost brand sword"</i>) for weapons, or more generally, <b>"egos"</b>. <br /></p><p>I was unable to find any direct source stating that the "ego" terminology in these games has its origins in the "<b>egoism</b>" statistic (in later editions, "Ego" score) of D&D's sentient weapons. But I think the lineage is pretty evident here, and this connection can probably be assumed.<br /></p><p>Nevertheless, compared to pen-and-paper games, the huge amount of combinations that was possible through computer algorithms took the loot lottery to a whole new level, and is the secret sauce that made <i>Diablo </i>so popular and influential. <br /><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">The devil in the design<br /></h3><blockquote><p>"Having realtime combat was an unusual thing." -David Brevik<br /></p></blockquote><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>(GI Show. Game Informer. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=646tWu_1yXE#t=2h37m">YouTube</a>. May 2019.)</i><p>The other unique feature of <i>Diablo </i>behind its popularity is its real-time gameplay. This was relatively rare in computer RPGs of the 90s, and the hack-and-slash games that did exist were often first-person affairs such as <b><i>Might and Magic VI</i></b> (1998) or <i><b>The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall</b></i> (1996). However, the real-time aspect of <i>Diablo </i>was not present during much of the game's development: in <a href="http://www.graybeardgames.com/download/diablo_pitch.pdf">a design document from 1994</a>, the game is described as operating <i>"on a turn-based system"</i>, and a complex action-points system is alluded to. The same document reinforces the randomly created dungeons as <i>"the heart"</i> of the game. The roguelike origins of <i>Diablo </i>are immediately obvious.</p><p>While the creator of the game, David Brevik, was not afraid of taking some innovative departures from those roguelike roots (such as network-based multiplayer, a simple mouse-based interface, and a business model inspired by Magic the Gathering), there was one leap he was strongly opposed to taking: <i>Diablo </i>would never be a real-time game. In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huPF3Gid7DE">an interview with Ars Technica</a>, he calls it his "his line in the sand" for what the game should be. It was turn-based or bust. It took a very long time for his colleagues and publishers (Blizzard, fresh off the success of the first Warcraft game) to get Brevik to agree to even test the idea. <br /></p><blockquote><p>"I said [to Blizzard], 'What are you guys talking about, no no no, this isn't one of your strategy
games. We are really commited to making a turn-based game.' <b>I love the sweat in a turn based game, especially in a roguelike, when you've made a turn, and you're down to one
hit point, and you're frantically searching through your inventory </b>... I really loved that tension. And they said,
'Yeah, but, you know... real-time will be better.' ... There were two or three of us that held out 'til the bitter end."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p><i>(Diablo: A Classic Game Postmortem. GDC. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc#t=24m30s">YouTube</a>. May 2016.)</i><br /></p></blockquote><p>When he finally implemented real-time gameplay into the Diablo prototype, Brevik immediately fell in love with it. Development continued on the now-realtime game with renewed excitement, and of course players would come to love the gameplay as well. Still, it is interesting to note that unlike many other roguelike trappings with which Brevik disposed of early on, the turn-based framework was one that he was not willing to let go of.</p><p></p>
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<p></p><p></p><p><br />In an interview with Game Informer (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=646tWu_1yXE#t=2h37m">YouTube</a>, around 2h37m), Brevik is asked about the colour-coded loot which has been copied into so many other games. He directly credits Angband as the inspiration:</p><blockquote><p>"What about <b>loot rarity colours</b>? Did you guys take that chart from anywhere, or was that invented in Diablo?"<br /></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>"That came from a game called <i>Angband</i>. Back in college, I played <b>a lot of roguelike games</b> - including <i>Rogue</i>, which is where the term roguelike comes from. There were kind of different versions of this and there was Tolkien-themed ones ... they had a version called <i>Moria</i>, and somebody else made a version of it called <i>uMoria</i>, and then that changed into this game called <i>Angband</i>...</p><p>Anyway, so <i>Angband </i>was a game I played thousands, literally thousands of hours of. It was really <b>the game that <i>Diablo </i>was based on. I wanted to take <i>Angband</i>, that original game, and make a modern version of it.</b> <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Because this was an ASCII game, you were the '@' symbol, and you were attacking the letter 'k' ... that was what the game looked like, it was just all letters. <b>But there were different random items that you could get in the game and they had different colours.</b> So if you found a rare one, the text wasn't just grey, it was blue text, and that meant that it was magic! So there were <i>some</i> colour variations to the text - <i>yes, we had colour text back then, this new-fangled colour text stuff..</i>. So the idea came from that, and then we kind of expanded on it,<b> but originally the idea came from <i>Angband</i>.</b>"
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://games-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/Angband_1.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="800" src="https://games-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/Angband_1.jpg" width="100%" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>These days, Angband is also available with graphics.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p>Blizzard had a smash hit with <i>Diablo</i> and its sequel, and went on to make<a href="https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Quality"> <i>World of Warcraft</i></a>, which was played by basically everyone. The influence of those games is visible in most games made today.</p><p>So, there you have it. Way back in the '90s, before the <i>roguelites </i>boom of the 2010s, roguelikes were silently changing the face of mainstream game design. And it was about much more than just randomly generated levels. This example shows that there are many valuable ideas and design patterns that originate in the roguelike genre. And, there may yet be many more that could be borrowed into other genres which the mainstream doesn't know about. In the niches beneath a craggy ASCII exterior, there might still be nuggets of gold, just waiting to be mined.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-16787076218572635812021-03-28T09:58:00.004-07:002021-03-28T13:21:02.382-07:00Randomization in chess and roguelikes<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chess960: chess with a random setup</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Chess960</b></i>, also known as </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess">Fischer random chess</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, is a variant of standard Western chess in which the home-rank pieces (that is, all
pieces except the pawns) are </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> given random
starting positions</span>, making it a type of shuffle chess. Published in 1996, the game has increased
in prominence in recent years, with 2019 seeing the first official
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_World_Fischer_Random_Chess_Championship_2019">FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship</a>.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The effect of varying the starting
positions is to reduce the dependence on memorizing openings. This
potentially quite interesting game is sadly marred by sharing a name with its creator, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bobby Fischer, </span>the Holocaust-denying Hitler fanboy of the
chess world. To avoid giving this vile man any more respect than he
deserves, which is to say none at all, I will be referring to the game as Chess960. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Fischerandom" and "Chess960" are </span>both variant names accepted by chess programs.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</span><h3 class="western"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Using polyhedral dice for Chess960 starting
positions</span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Starting positions are mirrored between
the two players, so the randomization process for Chess960 needs to only
fill in one player's home rank. The second player's starting
positions are implied by the first player's.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The starting positions of the pieces
have the following constraints:</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The player's two bishops must be on
squares of opposite colours.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The player's king must be between the
two rooks (to allow castling as in standard chess).</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When a computer is not available, we
can use a set of polyhedral dice (sometimes called "roleplaying
dice" or "D&D dice") to determine the starting
positions.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A rank on a chess board has 8 columns/squares, 4 of each
color. Thus, there are 4 possible positions for each bishop. Using
polyhedral dice, this can be rolled using two d4 (one of each colour).</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let's assume we rolled a 2 and a 2,
placing the bishops on columns c and d.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Image 2.</b> The bishops have been placed.<br /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span>
<p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6 squares remain, and the queen is
placed next on any one of them. This can be rolled using a d6.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let's assume we rolled a 5 on the d6,
placing the queen on column g.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Image 3.</b> The queen has been placed.<br /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then, with 5 squares remaining, the two
knights are placed randomly on any of them.
</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Roll a d10. On a result of 1-5, place
the first knight on the corresponding free square, and then the
second knight on the next free position immediately to its right. On
a result of 6-10, place the first knight in the same way (treating a
6 as a 1, and so on), but place the second knight two free positions
to the right, instead of one. Wrap the second knight around, so that
if there are no more free positions on the right, start counting from
the left again.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, if our free positions are abefh, then the results on the die correspond to the following placements:<br /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span>
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%"><b>
d10
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First knight
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Second knight
</b></td>
</tr>
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<b>1</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
a
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
b
</td>
</tr>
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<b>2</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
b
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
e
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
<b>3</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
e
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
f
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
<b>4</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
f
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
h
</td>
</tr>
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<b>5</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
h
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
a
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<b>6</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
a
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
e
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
<b>7</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
b
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
f
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
<b>8</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
e
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
h
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
<b>9</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
f
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
a
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
<b>10</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
h
</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="33%">
b
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span>
</p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let's assume we rolled a 10 on the d10.
The knights are then placed on columns h and b - or, equivalently, b and h.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Image 4.</b> The knights have been placed in b1 and h1.<br /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 3 remaining squares can only be
filled one way, due to the constraint that the king must be between
the rooks.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><p><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Image 5</span>.</b> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The rooks and king have been placed. All positions have been selected.
Now, all that remains is to fill out the other player's positions as a mirror image.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRr2Xl7HATSYacGj57K_md8HwLLQLKJ-4P6e5EsVUoiOUVIttT4uZFqsGKgQ5K4dvh_EuM2QUrUnriSw6-nXX1FNEno_MCJuB2o_AUnaK3FAY7uUfxiC8rcj5kl9JFvFfSXE1peLJ-6g/s848/6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="848" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRr2Xl7HATSYacGj57K_md8HwLLQLKJ-4P6e5EsVUoiOUVIttT4uZFqsGKgQ5K4dvh_EuM2QUrUnriSw6-nXX1FNEno_MCJuB2o_AUnaK3FAY7uUfxiC8rcj5kl9JFvFfSXE1peLJ-6g/w320-h320/6.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Image 6.</b> The final starting positions for both players. White to play.<br /></span>
</p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are 4 x 4 x 6 x 10 = 960 different
starting positions.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Using our example method of generating
these positions with polyhedral dice, four dice are needed: a black
d4, a white d4, and a d6 and a d10. Or, you can roll the same d4 two times in sequence, once for each bishop.<br /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The method for determining knight
positions given here is only one of many possibilities, chosen here because it
avoids rerolls and redundancies and seems like something I could remember. I recommend using any rule which you find easy to
remember to avoid having to consult a player aid.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Other randomized chess variants<br /></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_chess"><b>Transcendental chess</b></a></i> is another
randomized chess variant, invented in 1978 by Maxwell Lawrence, (a
full 18 years earlier than Chess960). In transcendental chess, the
constraint on the rook and king positions does not apply, and
castling is removed. Rather than mirroring the board, each player's positions
are determined independently. Additionally, a player may use their
first turn to swap two pieces on their back row, instead of making a
move.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> As many setups will have one side
starting at an advantage, it will perhaps be sporting to play two
games for each setup, changing sides in between.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.d-chess.com/"><i><b>D-chess</b></i></a> is similar to transcendental chess, but rather than
playing two games, one player gets to choose the side they think is
stronger, and the other player gets the option to swap two
pieces and also gets the first move.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><h3 class="western"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Is there room for randomization in chess?</span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Traditional chess is fully
deterministic, with no random factors. Everything depends on the
players' decisions. In many other games and sports, much of the
excitement comes from the combination of luck and skill. Their
interplay allows for bold risk-taking and dramatic upsets. Far from
the usual derision of chance as a factor that makes skill completely
irrelevant, taking the right risks at the right time is a skill in
itself. Reacting to unlikely chance occurrences can also be a kind of
skill, as can knowing and regulating the impact of uncertainty on
one's strategy.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the Wikipedia article linked above, you can read quotes from chess grandmasters on shuffle chess. Some even go as far as saying it's "the future". Reading between the lines, one can get the impression that the game's lack of excitement and human drama is hampering its public profile and influx of new players. Could adding a chance element make chess a bit... well, less boring?<br /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The interplay of chance and skill in
games can be broadly divided into two categories: chance that comes
after a player's decision, and that which comes before a player's
decision. In other words<span lang="fi-FI">,</span> <span lang="fi-FI">"randomness</span>
of outcome<span lang="fi-FI"></span>" or <b>output randomness</b>, and "<span lang="fi-FI"></span>randomness
of setup<span lang="fi-FI"></span>" or <b>input randomness</b>. For example, a chess
variant in which the attacker must roll a die to determine the
success of a capture has output randomness<span lang="fi-FI"></span>.
This kind of randomness promotes the correct gauging of risk, but<span lang="fi-FI">
it</span> typically has a very large effect on the game's outcome. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, a chess variant with randomized starting positions <span lang="fi-FI">would
be</span> in the second category, having input randomness. The initial positions
may have a large effect on the <span lang="fi-FI">o</span>dds of
wining, but beyond that, the only measure of skill is in how the
players react and adapt to this new and surprising situation. The player makes an informed decision, and its result is deterministic.
</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It may be noted that within board
games, the output randomness design pattern is more
common in <b>American-style boardgames</b> such as <i>Risk</i>, which often include
direct conflict, and combat resolution mechanics resembling wargames
or <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i>. <span lang="fi-FI">There, u</span>ncertainty
is a tool to heighten drama. <b>European-style games</b>, meanwhile, have
little or no output randomness, and
<span lang="fi-FI">typically less</span> hidden information. A <span lang="fi-FI">Eurogame</span> may include input randomness through a randomized
initial setup, but from there onward the players' decisions have largely deterministic results<span lang="fi-FI">. This typically</span>
makes for <span lang="fi-FI">a game </span>that <span lang="fi-FI">requires
</span>careful planning.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chess, while considered an early
wargame, has neither the elements of dice-based combat resolution nor
hidden information (fog of war) featured in many wargames starting
with the 19th-century <i>Kriegsspiel</i>. It could be argued that adding
input randomness to chess through randomized initial setups would turn it into "a
Euro-style boardgame".</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><h3 class="western" lang="fi-FI"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Genres & generations</span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arguably the most important games of
the 20th century were chess, poker, and <i><b>Dungeons & Dragons</b></i> <span lang="fi-FI">(</span>in
increasing order of <span lang="fi-FI">randomness). D&D's</span>
influence has been huge not only in traditional roleplaying games but
also in video games and board games. <span lang="fi-FI">Its
</span>dice-based combat system has bee<span lang="fi-FI">n</span>
<span lang="fi-FI">passed down</span> through <i>Rogue</i>, <i>Nethack</i>, <i>Dungeon
Crawl</i>, <i>Diablo</i>, <i>Elder Scrolls</i>, <i>Final Fantasy</i>, and so on - essentially,
the entire "RPG" videogame genre<span lang="fi-FI">,</span>
and beyond.
</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="fi-FI">Alt</span>hough D&D
came from the wargaming tradition, it is a cooperative game, not a
competitive one. <span lang="fi-FI">Unlike D&D</span> and the
mostly single-player RPGs<span lang="fi-FI"> it inspired</span>, some
games in <span lang="fi-FI">this </span>lineage are <span lang="fi-FI">competitive.
<i>Dota</i></span><i> 2</i> is a multiplayer game <span lang="fi-FI">of conflict
</span>with quite clear D&D-style elements<span lang="fi-FI">.</span>
<i>Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup</i> is a single-player game in the <i>roguelike
</i>genre which is played in competitive tournament formats.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chesslikes?<br /></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Interestingly, while the roguelike
genre is known for its large degree of <span lang="fi-FI">randomness,
</span>in recent years there has been more experimentation in <span lang="fi-FI"></span>minimizing output randomness, removing the dice resolution of combat in
favour of deterministic models. What is left is just a randomization of
maps - input randomness. Often, the entire map is
revealed to the player, reducing hidden information as well. This could be
seen as a move towards a "Eurogame-ization" of roguelikes.
Examples include <i>868-HACK</i>, <i>Hoplite</i>, and <i>HyperRogue</i>, in which the levels, enemy
positions, and powerups are random, but attacks cannot miss and
damage is predictable. These games have been described as abstract roguelikes, "<a href="http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/press.php">tactical puzzles</a>", or even feeling "<a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bestest-best-roguelite-hoplite-challenge-mode">chess-like</a>". Here, chess-like is being used as an adjective - for now at least, <i>chesslikes </i>are not a recognized game genre. <br /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But... what if? </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgnV5pGNKiYKOYBc-Q8B6aZp7R2ZespPuw7bBzr7xhVxMBZBsUgFEMblZ3xby4RvR2-7OgHfkpH4W8UBzDfIZN7Ud84W2a8XH9rHLsRfKi6DEs9qxJ2UnQS3M4GnzlZ=s1024-d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgnV5pGNKiYKOYBc-Q8B6aZp7R2ZespPuw7bBzr7xhVxMBZBsUgFEMblZ3xby4RvR2-7OgHfkpH4W8UBzDfIZN7Ud84W2a8XH9rHLsRfKi6DEs9qxJ2UnQS3M4GnzlZ=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><b>Image 7.</b> A screenshot from <i>868-HACK</i> by Michael Brough. <a href="https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2013/08/868-hack-ios.html">Source</a>.<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chess, with its deterministic head-to-head battles, and roguelikes with their iconically chaotic single-player experiences may seem as far apart as games can be. But at their core, both are games of tactics and strategy that play out on a square grid. Both require geometric pattern recognition - and heapings of experience and knowledge. Both are games that can hold a player's interest for 20 years or more.<br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps as chess begins to include more
random factors, and roguelikes lessen their <span lang="fi-FI"></span>output randomness, we will see the two genres
move closer and closer until they almost seem to merge.<span lang="fi-FI">
Could we even begin to see roguelikes which play out as a battle
between two opposing players? Who knows. The future, for now, is
under a fog of war.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</span>Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-64667166380618251722019-08-11T13:09:00.001-07:002019-08-11T13:21:49.454-07:00Static Weapon Damage: A Problem, and a Solution<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>If you've read my posts on <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/08/d-without-damage-dice.html">D&D Without Damage Dice</a> and <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2019/03/ascending-damage-dicing-with-death.html">Ascending Damage</a>, you'll know I use a sort of "wound counting" or "hit counting" system, which by definition has static damage - every hit with a weapon is just "one hit". The design goal is to make combat simpler and faster, but ideally, it should still be interesting and have some variety.</i></span><br />
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What is static and variable damage?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the olden days of Chainmail, monsters and men took a certain number of <b>hits to kill</b>, regardless of weapon. The effectiveness of different weapons was modeled by their ability to score <a href="http://jrients.blogspot.com/2008/11/weapon-vs-what.html">a hit against each type of armor</a>, as presented in the <a href="http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2008/11/weapon-vs-ac.html">dreaded</a> MAN-TO-MAN MELEE TABLE. Then came Original Dungeons & Dragons, which introduced hit dice - instead of 1 hit-to-kill, men could take d6 points before death. LIkewise, <b>all weapons dealt d6 damage</b>. The damage roll introduced some variety to the outcomes of attacks. However, this system is still typically called "static weapon damage" in the sense that weapons were not differentiated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Greyhawk supplement introduced the "alternative combat system" with its "damage done by weapon type", or what we would call <b>variable weapon damage.</b> Daggers dealt d4 damage, spears d6, and swords d8, as they do to this day. This was wildly popular and was carried over to Moldvay's Basic - though it should be pointed out that it was presented as an optional rule. The default in Moldvay was still the fixed d6 damage rule.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, the main ways of <b>differentiating weapons</b> are:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">variable damage (die size, flat bonus, roll and keep...)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">damage adjustments against different foes (e.g. bonus against large creatures) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">adjustments to hit (e.g. against different armor or weapon types)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">critical hit range (20, 19-20...) and damage (2x, 3x...)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">secondary special features (spears can attack from 2nd rank, crossbows must be reloaded...)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">number of attacks</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">tertiary properties such as weight, price, initiative adjustments, durability, social status...</span></li>
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What's the problem with static damage?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm not really a simulationist. I'm not aiming to
represent historical combat faithfully. But I still want a <i>little
</i>mechanical differentiation to support the difference in fiction, obvious to anyone,
between stabbing with a dagger vs. swinging a greataxe. And, honestly,
combat without damage rolls might end up feeling a bit sterile, so
making weapon choice and tactics a meaningful decision will help spice
it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In my <i>B/X-hack-via-OD&D-and-Blackmoor</i> (name pending), I obviously cannot vary weapon damage, since I'm not using dice for it. Certain weapons doing 2 or 3 hits (or "Wounds" as I'm calling them) instead of 1 would be far too large a difference, when most low-level monsters like skeletons and orcs can only take a single Wound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't usually like double-damage critical hits in D&D, and prefer a
natural 20s as simply automatic hits. But when playing with Wounds, I would consider including criticals just to add <i>some</i> variety to the proceedings. However, when facing monsters that always die in a single hit (HD 1 types like orcs), doing "double hits" on criticals does not matter at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is there some solution, some system of <b>differentiating weapons while keeping fixed damage</b>? Ideally, any solution would include a minimum of three "tiers" of weapons in terms of weight/effectiveness: simple weapons like daggers, martial weapons like swords, and two-handed weapons, at least. (If spears don't have their own tier between daggers and swords, then they will have to be combined with either, becoming strictly superior in that damage tier, due to their additional property of <i>reach</i>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One possibility is to do something like what Chainmail does: give the weapons different to-hit adjustments against different armors. But that sort of thing is part of the reason I wanted to get away from LotFP in the first place. I don't want to remember what bonus which weapon gets over what AC threshold, and doubtfully do my players either. (Maybe if the LotFP adjustments were stated in terms of "against targets in metal armor" and so on, rather than AC numbers, I would've hated them less.) I don't want "weapon vs. AC" lookup tables. If my goal is to make combat fast, having to consult a table is not going to help.</span><br />
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The solution: Variable Critical Hit Range by Weapon + Overkill</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, there <i>is</i> a solution to all this!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">First, the solution to critical hits not mattering against mobs of orcs is the Overkill rule: Whenever your attack kills an enemy with Wounds left over, you can <b>carry over the excess Wounds</b> to another target (as long as its AC is equal or worse than the killed target's.) Thus, when you score a critical against an HD 1 orc, you now kill <i>two</i> of them in one blow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Secondly, and far more importantly: <b>Critical hit range now depends on weapon type</b>. Variable crit range, in other words. For example, daggers never score critical hits. Spears score them on a natural 20. Greatswords score critical hits on a natural 18-20.</span><br />
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<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Two-handed</span></span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">20</span></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Riposte</span></span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Reach</span></span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Reach, two-handed</span></span></td>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thirdly:<b> Fighters score 3 Wounds on critical hits</b>. Everyone else scores 2 Wounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fourthly, a minor point: Specialists/Thieves, when landing a Sneak Attack, automatically deal a critical hit (even if the weapon is not normally capable of critting).</span><br />
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Rationale</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Note, firstly, that weapons fit neatly into four tiers. Moving one step down in critical range will usually give you one positive feature, and vice versa: rapiers and spears aren't quite as damaging as standard swords, but they have interesting secondary features. Axes and maces, likewise, have their own situational benefits over swords. Shortswords are strictly worse than standard swords - but hobbits can wield shortswords in one hand, while they require two hands for an axe, mace or sword.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A polearm has reach, and that's why it's not <i>quite </i>as devastating as the undisputed king of damage, the greatsword. If polearms and greatswords were equally damaging, polearms would be the strictly superior option - which <i>may </i>be a historically accurate rendition, but not one I want to adhere to in my swords-and-sorcery inspired campaign.</span><br />
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Harold_S_Delay_-_Red_Nails_I.png" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin: auto;" /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In every case, <b>players will have to choose</b> - do they take axes to chop down doors or spears for reach? Or do they forgo these benefits, focusing on damage? In this aspect, the system works very similarly to one with variable damage dice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">However, critical hits are automatic hits, which means they have interesting <b>interactions with AC</b> that must be analyzed. The <i>number of attacks that critically</i> does not depend on target AC. But the <i>number of regular hits does</i>. Thus, the higher the target's AC, the larger the <i>contribution of criticals to average damage</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The table below shows the relative damage increase from using a critically-hitting weapon, compared to a common baseline. The assumed baseline is a weapon that cannot critically hit for double damage - a dagger, in our case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Relative improvement over non-crit damage vs. Required d20 roll to hit.</b></span><br />
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<colgroup><col width="82"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="39"></col></colgroup>
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<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" height="18" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="82"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Crit range/damage</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>8</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>9</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>10</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>11</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>12</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>13</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>14</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>15</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>16</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>17</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>18</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>19</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="39"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>20</b></span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" height="18" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>20 / 2x</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">9%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">10%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">11%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">13%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">14%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">17%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">20%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">25%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">33%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">50%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">100%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" height="18" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>20 / 3x</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">15%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">17%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">18%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">20%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">22%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">25%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">29%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">33%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">40%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">50%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">67%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">100%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">200%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" height="18" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>19+ / 2x</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">15%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">17%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">18%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">20%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">22%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">25%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">29%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">33%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">40%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">50%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">67%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">100%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">200%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" height="18" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>19+ / 3x</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">31%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">33%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">36%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">40%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">44%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">50%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">57%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">67%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">80%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">100%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">133%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">200%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FF3333" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">400%</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" height="18" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>18+ / 2x</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">23%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">25%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">27%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">30%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">33%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">38%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">43%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">50%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">60%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">75%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">100%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">150%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FF3333" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">300%</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" height="18" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>18+ / 3x</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">46%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">50%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">55%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">60%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">67%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">75%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFFF66" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">86%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">100%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">120%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">150%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FFCC00" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">200%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FF3333" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">300%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" bgcolor="#FF3333" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">600%</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Note a couple things.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Firstly, a critical range/damage of 19-20/3x is better than 18-20/2x. In my system, this translates to: <b>a Fighter deals greater (average) damage with a sword than a Thief does with a greatsword</b>. The Thief still gains a benefit from using a greatsword, but the gain is smaller than for a Fighter. This is perfect for me, since I'm not using any class-based weapon restrictions. I want even Magic-Users to use swords if they want to - they just won't be as effective with swords as Fighters or Thieves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Secondly, the benefit of using a heavier weapon is relatively more important when the required to-hit roll is higher - that is, when target AC is higher. In practical terms: it turns out <b>greatswords and polearms "penetrate" armor better</b> in this system. This may not be entirely realistic, but it's good enough for me. When you're fighting fleshy unarmored peasants, an axe or dagger will do; for dragons or armored paladins, consider bringing something heavier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think this system could be incredibly powerful - effectively, it is a "weapon vs. armor type" system <b>without requiring any table lookups</b>, nor any secondary rolls. You simply note the crit range on your sheet when you pick up a new weapon, and it stays the same no matter what foe you're fighting - though it results in different outcomes. The baked-in math does all the magic. I think this counts as following the philosophy which <a href="https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-glog.html">the GLOG</a> states as: "Consolidate ruthlessly. Turn two rolls into one, turn one roll into none. <b>Turn tables into formulas</b>, turn formulas into static numbers."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How does it stack up?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So within the new system, the weapons seem to work great relative to each other. But what about the damage increases overall? Aren't those percentages a bit high, you ask? To compare this to the original games, let's look at how much of a boost variable weapon damage in B/X gives you. Let's choose the d4 as the baseline for comparison, since our earlier copmarison used a non-critting dagger/staff as the baseline.</span><br />
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="179"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>B/X weapon equivalent</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="51"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Die</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="64"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Average</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="130"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Improvement over d4</b></span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d2</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1.5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-40%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d3</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-20%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dagger</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d4</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2.5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">0%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">20%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Spear</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d6</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3.5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">40%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d7</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">60%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sword</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4.5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">80%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Greatsword</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d10</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5.5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">120%</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d12</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6.5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">160%</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In our new system, let's say a 1st level PC (+1 to hit) is attacking an enemy in plate (AC 17, roll needed to hit = 16). In the variable crit range system, how does your choice of weapon affect your damage, and what damage die does it correspond to in the variable damage system?</span><br />
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<td align="CENTER" height="32" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Crit range/damage</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Damage improvement</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="102"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Example attacker</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="105"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Example weapon</b></span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="143"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Equivalent variable damage</b></span></td><td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> Equivalent bonus to-hit</b></span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> 20 / 2x</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">20%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thief</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">spear</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">+1</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">20 / 3x</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">40%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fighter</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">spear</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d6</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">+2</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">19+ / 2x</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">40%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thief</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">polearm/sword</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d6</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">+3</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">19+ / 3x</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">80%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fighter</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">polearm/sword</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">+4</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">18+ / 2x</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">60%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thief</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">greatsword</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d7</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">+5</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">18+ / 3x</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">120%</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fighter</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">greatsword</span></td>
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<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">+6</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, against a plate-armored opponent, a Fighter's benefit (in terms of average damage) for grabbing a spear, sword or greatsword is<b> exactly the same as in B/X variable damage</b>! Thieves and Magic-Users are free to use swords and greatswords, but they'll effectively be using a smaller damage die - d6 or d7 - in a system without any damage rolls!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That's for 1st level PCs against a plate armor. Of course, if the enemy's armor is worse, or the attacker's to-hit is better, then weapon choice becomes de-emphasized compared to B/X. That is, greatswords give smaller improvements over daggers than they would under variable damage. Vice versa, if the target is better armored than a human in plate, then bringing a big weapon becomes even more important under this variable crit range system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pros and cons of Variable Crit Range</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In summary, the pros of using critical hit range to differentiate weapons and critical hit damage multiplier to differentiate classes:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The player-facing mechanics work exactly the same regardless of the foe being fought </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It a sort of "armor penetration" effect without any need to consult charts</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is no need for weapon restrictions by class, yet Fighters still gain more of a boost</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Cons:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a caveat, one should be extremely careful about implementing "advantage" rolls into this system. Effectively doubling the chances of a crit can have quite massive effects when coupled with triple-damage crits. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Minor caveats</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(Just to pre-empt a minor point: Daggers not being able to critically hit may go counter to expectations. However, the special-case rule that "any sneak attack that a Specialist/Thief lands is a critical hit regardless of weapon" means that sneak attacks with daggers are just as effective as those with greatswords. If you used variable weapon damage, and doubled damage on sneak attacks, then Thieves would be incentivized to use greatswords. Unless of course you implemented class-based weapon restrictions, which I don't want to do.)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>As a side bonus: in addition to, or instead of, +to hit magical weapons, you could have "keen weapons" that have a greater-than-normal critical range - keen rapiers that crit on 19-20, and so on. If you really wanted to get into the weeds incentivizing genre faithfulness, you could even give dwarves an increased critical range with axes and hammers (bringing them up to par with the sword), etc. etc.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>By the way, in case you're wondering how a +1 to crit range compares with a +1 to hit, see the last column in the previous table. 20/2x is equivalent (in average damage improvement) to a +1 to hit, 20/3x and 19+/2x to a +2 to hit, and so on. So, if you're not a Fighter, each point of critical range is worth +1 to hit (+1/+2/+3). If you are a Fighter, then each point of critical range is worth +2 to hit (+2/+4/+6). Generally, +2 to hit is equivalent to +1 damage.</i></span>Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-26879680301842163392019-07-29T14:08:00.001-07:002019-07-29T14:24:14.666-07:00OSR Idea: Random Backgrounds as Consolation Prizes<i>TL;DR: Have several tables of backgrounds; characters with low ability scores roll on better tables.</i><br />
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Rolling for stats</h2>
Sometimes it can feel like the OSR has a love-hate relationship with the <b>3d6 down-the-line</b> method of generating ability scores. <i>Lamentations of the Flame Princess</i> allows <b>swapping </b>one pair of scores, which I think is great - sometimes you just want to play a fighter. It also lets you <b>reroll </b>everything if the sum of ability modifiers is negative. <b>41%</b> of B/X characters have a negative total modifier. In other words, in LotFP, after you've rolled up scores, marked the modifiers, and added them all up, <b>4 out of 10 </b>times you have to do it all again. (Well, you don't <i>have</i> to - it's entirely optional - but why wouldn't you?)<br />
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<i>Stars Without Number</i>, in lieu of swapping scores, allows you to <b>replace one score with 14</b> (+2). That seems more reasonable - it ensures that whatever kind of character you want to play, there will be at least one thing you're not <i>entirely terrible </i>at. It's also self-limiting - if you already rolled kickass scores across the board, bumping one to 14 isn't going to make as much difference. (SWN also shrinks the modifier range from ±3 to ±2, which <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2019/03/making-case-for-limited-ability.html">seems like a good idea</a>.) There's also the option of taking an array (14, 12, 11, 10, 9, 7) instead of rolling.<br />
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But somehow, these methods - particularly the "total do-over 41% of the time" one - seem a bit like admitting defeat. Why do we roll scores again?<br />
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Because we like the variation in characters - that jolt to the imagination that something completely human-planned cannot deliver. Also, because it's much faster than having everyone minmax which number to place where. This is a game about <b>interacting with a world</b>, not about deckbuilding. Roll roll roll, pick a class, go. Discover who your character is<b> during play</b> - don't agonize over it in the pre-game.<br />
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Maybe there's something we can hack up to keep the straightforwardness of rolling scores (no do-overs) while softening the blow of crappy ones?<br />
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Random backgrounds</h2>
Backgrounds can help give flavour to characters that can otherwise feel a bit like blank pawns, and act as a seed for roleplay. A background can be tied to a (pre-adventuring) profession, and have minor mechanical bonuses: some extra starting items, a skill increase, or perhaps a "mini-feat".<br />
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The problem with entirely random backgrounds is that the more backgrounds you write, the more difficult they are to make roughly equivalent in power. Vice versa, if you follow a restrictive formula such as "all backgrounds get +1 to one skill", you're both going to run out of suitable ideas, and will be unable to fit many setting-appropriate backgrounds to this mould.<br />
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And if you don't make them strictly equal? What if one background gets +1 to CON modifier while another can... tell when it's about to rain? It isn't game-breaking in itself, but can feel a bit unfair - even more so if the characters that rolled awesome scores also happen to land on the best backgrounds. Meanwhile, the poor sod with a -5 total modifier gets to be Background: Dirt Farmer. <i>(Or a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudlark">mudlark</a>, which is a child that scavenges among the mud and gets pelted with coins and laughed at as they dive into the mud to catch them.) </i><br />
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Consolation Prizes</h2>
Here's an idea for a solution: <b>tie background table rolls to ability scores</b>, but give them an <i>inverse</i> relationship - the worse your scores, the better backgrounds you can roll, as way of a consolation prize. Now the designer no longer needs to balance backgrounds by making them all equally good - they're freed to deliberately design a power continuum, and it will be offset by ability scores. Now even players who rolled terribly can look forward to playing their new character.<br />
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<i>(As a guideline to designing these backgrounds, they should never affect ability scores or ability modifiers. Those have already been rolled for, so a "Background: Strongman - +2 to Strength score" does not make sense; it's redundant. However, a mini-feat that affects a secondary stat is totally fine: for example, shepherds can get a +1 to attacks with slings.)</i><br />
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Tiers</h2>
To divide generated characters into tiers, we need a mathematical benchmark to estimate their intrinsic value. One possible (albeit naive) benchmark is to simply sum up all the character' ability modifiers. When six stats are generated by 3d6 each, their ability modifiers per B/X summed up have a normal distribution with the average at +0 total modifier:<br />
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The possible results can be divided into an arbitrary number of <b>bins </b>of manageable probability, such as:<br />
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">-3 to -2</td>
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<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">34.1</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">+1 to +2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">28.1</td>
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<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">12.9</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><i>Tier 1</i></td>
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We can give each bin a <b>tier</b>. The higher the ability score total, the "better" the character inherently is. <i>(In actuality, not all abilities are of equal worth, and their worth does not scale identically with modifier or score. For example, in my game, each point of Strength score gives you an item slot and each point of Constitution score makes you less likely to lose consciousness, whereas with Intelligence only the modifier matters. The benchmark I'm using here ignores such considerations. You could also look at highest scores, lowest scores, or whatever. If your game is one of those <a href="https://wyrdspeak.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-backpack-and-blade.html">weird roll-under-stat ones with no modifiers</a>, maybe use sum-of-all-scores as the benchmark.)</i><br />
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So 5.8% of randomly generated characters will have very bad scores, putting them into Tier 5, and so on. Now, we can write <b>a different table of backgrounds for each tier</b> of character, with intrinsically "worse" characters rolling on cooler, weirder, and more powerful background tables.<br />
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Tier 1:</h3>
These characters have great scores - they don't need an impactful background. They are the <b>unskilled professions</b> as well as those skilled professions whose craft has <b>little to no impact</b> on the game: porters, farmers (dirt or otherwise), bakers, coopers, chandlers, calculators, mudlarks... even for their bonus starting items, the best these people can hope for is a single tool (with no immediately obvious use in the dungeon) and a bag of turnips.<br />
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Tier 2:</h3>
The professions that have a small game impact, mostly during <b>downtime</b>. For example, blacksmiths could make their own armour for half price. These are unlikely to come up very often, but are not utterly useless, either. They could be skills that any character can learn in your game, given enough investment. You could also put backgrounds that have no skills but very good starting items into this tier. Some may have dungeon-applicable tools.<br />
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<li>Noble: No skills or mini-feats. Starts with 200 gp and a bottle of fine wine.</li>
<li>Blacksmith: During downtime, can craft armour, melee weapons, and other metal items. Material cost is half of the item's listed price. Work takes one week per 10 gp of listed price. Starts with a hammer and a bar of iron. Anvil sold separately.</li>
<li>Bowyer: As Blacksmith, but can craft bows, crossbows and ammunition.</li>
<li>Miner: Count as two people for excavations (three if you're a Dwarf). Starts with a pickaxe and a lodestone.</li>
<li>Masons: +1 Architecture. Starts with a sledgehammer.</li>
<li>Scribe: +1 Languages. Starts with parchments, quills, and ink.</li>
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Tier 3:</h3>
These are professions whose skills have <b>a clear impact</b> on the game - for example, anything that boosts lockpicking/Tinker, Bushcraft or Search. Situationally useful (not just during downtime) mini-feats may also be placed into this tier. Often, these are combined with useful tools.<br />
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<li>Actor: +1 to reaction rolls with humanoids. Starts with a mask and makeup.</li>
<li>Officer: +1 to follower morale. Starts with ceremonial rapier. </li>
<li>Falconer: Has a trained falcon that follows commands. Starts with a falcon and a mail glove.</li>
<li>Barber-surgeon: +1 Medicine. Starts with razor and leather strap. </li>
<li>Brawler: Improvised weapons count as regular weapons.</li>
<li>Bounty hunter: +1 Bushcraft. Starts with a hound and rope.</li>
<li>Bear-leader: +1 to reaction rolls with beasts. Starts with rope and animal feed.</li>
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Tier 4:</h3>
Backgrounds with mini-feats that give <b>a boost to combat capability</b> or survivability. Rare and expensive tools may be given as starting items. For example:<br />
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<li>Shepherd: +1 to hit with slings. Starts with a cane and a bag of wool.</li>
<li>Poisonmaker: +1 to saves vs. Poison. Starts with 4 vials of poison. </li>
<li>Diviner: Can cast <i>detect magic</i> once per day. Starts with crystal ball and deck of cards.</li>
<li>Occultist: Can cast <i>summon </i>once per day (as Caster Level 0). Starts with curved dagger and black candles.</li>
<li>Lumberjack: +1 to hit with axes. Guess what starting equipment.</li>
<li>Acrobat: Fall damage is reduced by 20'.</li>
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Tier 5:</h3>
Go wild here. These characters have crap scores, so give them something surprising. Something that makes <b>a big impact</b> on the way the character plays. Got a class that's a bit more gonzo than the others (like the <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2019/03/osr-class-skeleton-adventurer.html">Skeleton Adventurer</a> or <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2019/03/osr-class-trollkin-half-troll.html">Half-Troll</a>) that you're not sure is entirely balanced and don't want players to be able to pick freely? Stick it here. "You're a skeleton in a hooded cloak, that's your background."<br />
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You can populate this tier with backgrounds that are plot hooks in themselves, or unique things that can only be rolled once.. Hell, put some <b>superpowers </b>here. "Dragonsoul: once per day, you can use a breath weapon that deals [Lvl]d6 damage." The stuff that a WotC game would let anyone pick willy-nilly, spoiling the mystique: those descended from the lines of elementals or gods! The insect-folk from two towns over! Soulless people who are invisible to the undead! Werewolves! Wielders of a runesword that grows stronger with every soul it eats! Weird mutants! Their low stats will mean they might not survive that long anyway. And
hey, awesomely powerful individuals being physically weak is very <i>swords & sorcery</i>.<br />
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Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-32027195600244996742019-07-25T12:52:00.000-07:002019-07-25T12:52:14.650-07:00Comparing Dyson's d6 Thief and LotFP's Specialist<i>TL;DR: give LotFP Specialists 8 skill points to invest, not 4.</i> <br />
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The celebrated <b>Dyson Logos</b> <a href="https://dysonlogos.blog/2009/08/01/d6-and-2d6-thiefin-for-basic-dungeons-dragons/">has a post on thieves that's nearly a decade old now</a>. In the post he takes the B/X Thief skill table, which was given as percentile rolls, and converts them to their d6 (X-in-6 chance) equivalents.<br />
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(There was very little reason to present Thief skills as percentile rolls in the first place. All of them were in 5% increments, bar Climb Sheer Surfaces which ranges from 87% to 99%, and Hear Noise, which was given as an X-in-6 chance.)<br />
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<i><b>Lamentations of the Flame Princess</b></i>, famously, also uses the d6 for skills. They give all characters a 1-in-6 base chance at succeeding, and allow Specialists (Thieves) to invest 4 skill points in any of them, and a further 2 points on each level up.<br />
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Converting Dyson to LotFP </h3>
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So what would Dyson's numbers look like in LotFP? In the table below I've taken his numbers, changed the skill names to their LotFP equivalents, and removed Hear Noise. I've also merged Pick Locks with Find or Remove Traps, and Move Silently with Hide in Shadows, always choosing the higher odds of the two merged skills. Sneak Attack is a skill in LotFP, but originally was a class feature fixed at 2x, so I've set that at 2. The new LotFP skills not based on Thief features are omitted.<br />
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<b>Dyson conversion vs. LotFP </b><br />
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 1</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">1</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">1</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">1</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 2</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">1</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">1</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">1</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 3</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">1</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">7</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">8</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 4</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">8</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">10</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 5</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">8</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">12</td>
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<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 6</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">11</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">14</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 7</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">11</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">16</td>
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<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 8</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">14</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">18</td>
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<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 9</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">14</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">20</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 10</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">18</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">22</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 11</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">18</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 12</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">21</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">26</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 13</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">7</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">22</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">28</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 14</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">7</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">22</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">30</td>
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</table>
<br />
Dyson agrees with most people that the <b>starting values are much too low.</b> In the post he also presents a conversion to 2d6, and a houseruled version of it to boost the skills. The houserule even includes choosing one "favoured" skill - could this post be present in LotFP's DNA? Here, I won't be looking at the 2d6 tables. Instead, let's find out how the d6/LotFP skill conversion of the (famously stingy) B/X table compares to the LotFP ruleset. Starting from a base value of 1, the above table has 4 points invested into Climb, and 1 into Sneak Attack. That makes for <b>a total of 5 skill points</b> - <b>more</b> than the 4 that LotFP grants to first level Specialists.<br />
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The two rightmost columns of the table show that the B/X Thief is overtaken by the Specialist in skill points at 2nd level. To be fair to LotFP, we chose the higher of two skills when merging them, instead of taking their average. It may also be argued that the bump to a d6 hit die, and the ability to choose which skills to improve, offsets this loss. <br />
<br />
<h3>
A Little Boost</h3>
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If, then, we agree with Dyson and others that these numbers need a boost, particularly at low levels, what would it look like under LotFP rules? Since all classes have skills at 1-in-6 in LotFP, the smallest reasonable buff we can give the Thief/Specialist is to start all Thief skills at<b> 2-in-6</b> instead of 1.<br />
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<b>Boosted Dyson conversion vs. LotFP</b><br />
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<colgroup><col width="86"></col><col width="86"></col><col width="86"></col><col width="86"></col><col width="86"></col><col width="86"></col><col width="86"></col><col width="86"></col></colgroup>
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<td align="CENTER" height="18" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b>Level</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b>Tinker</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b>Sleight of Hand</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b>Stealth</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b> Climb</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b>Sneak Attack</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b>Total skill points</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b>LotFP Specialist skill points</b></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 1</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">8</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 2</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">8</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 3</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">10</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 4</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">11</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 5</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">3</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">11</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">12</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 6</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">14</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">14</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 7</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">4</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">14</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">16</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 8</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">17</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">18</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 9</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">5</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">17</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">20</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 10</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">21</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">22</td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 11</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">21</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">24</td>
</tr>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 12</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">7</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">22</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">26</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 13</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">8</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">23</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">28</td>
</tr>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b> 14</b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">8</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">6</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">2</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">23</td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;">30</td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<br />
Now, the score at 1st level is <b>a whopping 8 points</b> to 4. The Specialist only overtakes the Thief at 5th level. However, in my opinion, the levels
below 5th are far more important to the game than the ones above it, so the
LotFP skill point allocation seems lacking. <br />
<br />
My conclusion is to keep LotFP Specialists otherwise as they are, but try giving them <b>8 skill points at 1st level instead of 4</b>. (I won't limit the amount of skill points invested into any one skill, at least to start with. If there turns out to be a problem allowing one to max out one of their skills at 1st level, then we'll deal with that as it arises.)<br />
<br />
Or, for a <b>super simple</b> rule: start Thieves at 2-in-6 for all skills (except Climb at 5-in-6), and increase this on levels divisible by three: to 3-in-6 at 3rd, 4-in-6 at 6th, and 5-in-6 at 9th level. Then, if playing beyond name level, bump everything to 6-in-6 at 10th.<br />
<br />
Below is a comparison of the skill point equivalents of our various conversions with LotFP rules-as-written, as well as LotFP with a buff of 2 or 4 additional skill points at 1st level.<br />
<br />
<b>Comparison of skill point equivalent totals</b><br />
<b>
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<td align="CENTER" height="47" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Level</span></b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dyson</span></b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Boosted Dyson</span></b></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dyson Boosted Smoothed</span></b></td>
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<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;" width="86"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">LotFP+4</span></b></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">4</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">6</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></b></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">9</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">6</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10</span></b></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">7</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">12</span></b></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">4</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">12</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></b></td>
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<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">5</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">12</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">12</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">16</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">6</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">16</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">18</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">7</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">16</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">16</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">18</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">20</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">17</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">17</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">18</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">20</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">22</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">9</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">17</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">18</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">17</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">20</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">22</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">24</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">18</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">22</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">24</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">26</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">18</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">24</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">26</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">28</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">12</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">22</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">22</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">26</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">28</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">30</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">13</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">22</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">23</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">23</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">28</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">30</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">32</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER" height="17" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">22</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">23</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">23</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">21</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">30</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">32</span></td>
<td align="CENTER" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">34</span></b></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
I suggest you try out giving this higher number of skill points to Specialists/Thieves - whether your taste is to allow them to invest the points freely, or make a rigid progression resembling the B/X originals with Climb being far ahead of the others. See if that makes Thieves feel too overpowered and breaks the game - I doubt it will.<br />
<br />One caveat: starting Specialists with 8 points does mean that Thief skills are maxed out at 10th level, and only
Sleight of Hand (which is modified by the target's level, and thus a
base value higher than 6 still makes sense) increases beyond that. But
that's only if you invest in Thief skills and nothing else; LotFP has other skills such as Architecture and Bushcraft to soak those points in. And honestly, I don't plan on playing beyond 10th level anyway.Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-49620384185914409842019-07-22T14:15:00.001-07:002019-07-23T10:28:47.001-07:00Duryan's 405 Perfidious Perfumes<h3>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwoJoTkkb8RK_kgb05CPRARugoldSnRbX02NzVMbAn3tGmfhgay5unXb45_vb3dJ8269aoP5fEQ5NTgW3nDGGsf6MRsatKMa0PHAfYHuAKW8SFnEcHXQhl7zQPpwCjTLqWFnQ9ksoS3xY/s1600/612px-Ernst%252C_Rodolphe_-_The_Perfume_Maker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwoJoTkkb8RK_kgb05CPRARugoldSnRbX02NzVMbAn3tGmfhgay5unXb45_vb3dJ8269aoP5fEQ5NTgW3nDGGsf6MRsatKMa0PHAfYHuAKW8SFnEcHXQhl7zQPpwCjTLqWFnQ9ksoS3xY/s1600/612px-Ernst%252C_Rodolphe_-_The_Perfume_Maker.jpg" width="550" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">About Duryan the Gardener</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Duryan was an adventuring wizard before finding his true passion in gardening. Now, he has no interest in discussing spell-lore, having patience only for the language of plants. His garden is filled with flowers of shifting hues, trees bearing strange fruit, and grasses that seem to move with intelligence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Of course, there are things he wants from you to make his garden even greater. For example: go find a black lotus from a place with a strong presence of death, then take the flower to a druid to have its necrotic energy neutralized, so that Duryan can safely plant it. When you complete any such task for Duryan, he will present you with a new perfume distilled from the good things from his garden.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<h3>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Random Perfume Tables</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Duryan produces only 1d4 doses of perfume each time. Each perfume has unique properties when applied to a subject’s skin, but the properties’ nature can only be discovered through experimentation.</span><br />
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When a perfume is first applied, the referee rolls for a random duration, effect and name for the new scent.<br />
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<table border="3" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<colgroup><col></col>
<col></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
<b>d6</b></div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
<b>Perfume Duration</b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2"><div align="CENTER">
1-2</div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2"><div align="CENTER">
6+2d6 hours</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2"><div align="CENTER">
3-4</div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2"><div align="CENTER">
1d6 days</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
5-6</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
2d6 days</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table border="3" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<colgroup><col></col>
<col></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
<b>d10</b></div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
<b>Perfume Effect</b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
1-5</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Potent Pheromone</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
6</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Awful Allergy</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
7</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Signature Scent</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
8</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Magiphobic Coating</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
9</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Flammable Fumes</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
10</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Utter Ecstasy</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<i><b>Potent Pheromone: </b></i>Roll twice on the creature type table. The first creature type is enamored by the scent; the second is revolted. Treat reaction rolls with enamored creatures as an automatic result of 12 (enthusiastically friendly), and with revolted creatures as an automatic result of 1 (hostile, non-civilized creatures immediately attack and civilized creatures treat you as if you just loudly soiled yourself in front of them).<br />
<br />
If the same creature type is rolled twice, then the scent is physically harmful to that creature: people will suffer violent nosebleeds and run away in terror, undead are destroyed or dispelled, etc. If the subject to which the perfume is applied happens to be on that type, then it’s bound to be bad: they take one die of damage per round until the perfume is washed off.<br />
<br />
<table border="3" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;">
<colgroup><col></col>
<col></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
<b>d20</b></div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
<b>Creature type</b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
1</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Human males</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
2</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Human females</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
3</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Dwarves</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
4</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Elves</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
5</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Halflings</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
6</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Goblinoids</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
7</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Orcs and trolls</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
8</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Kobolds and lizardfolk</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
9</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Lizards and snakes</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
10</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Dogs, wolves, werewolves, bears, badgers, etc.</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
11</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Cats, tigers, weretigers, hyenas, gnolls,
mongooses, etc.</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
12</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Rodents and monkeys</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
13</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Horses, donkeys, camels, deer, etc.</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
14</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Birds</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
15</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Dragons, hydra, wyverns, etc.</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
16</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Insects and spiders</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
17</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Fish, amphibians, toadmen, etc.</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
18</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Corporeal undead </div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
19</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Spectral undead and elementals</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td><div align="CENTER">
20</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Oozes and octopi</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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<i><b>Awful Allergy:</b></i> The perfumed skin begins to redden and itch distractingly, increasing odds of the subject being surprised by 1 in 6 and giving a penalty of -1 in 6 to picking locks. Intermittent sneezing gives a -1 in 6 penalty to Stealth. The swelling grows for the duration, until at the end of it, the bulb of skin harmlessly falls off. It animates as a skin tag golem (stats as a homunculus) that cannot speak but obeys its “progenitor”. The golem lives for 1d6 days.<br />
<i><b><br />
</b></i><i><b>Signature Scent:</b></i> All who meet the subject become keenly aware of the shortest path to the subject and can track them unerringly until the end of the duration.<br />
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<i><b>Magiphobic Coating:</b></i> The subject has +2 to saving throws against magical effects and becomes invisible to elves and fey creatures.<br />
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<i><b>Flammable Fumes:</b></i> The subject becomes harder to hit, gaining +2 AC. The subject automatically fails saving throws against fire. The next time they take fire damage, the damage is doubled, and the effect then ends.<br />
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<i><b>Utter Ecstasy:</b></i> The subject experiences infinite pleasure in every moment of existence. No discomfort or mishap can unsettle them. The subject becomes immune to fear, charm, and possession, cannot be surprised, and gains +50% bonus experience. The effect spreads to anyone who touches their lips to the subject. At the end of the duration, the subject and all others affected crash down to reality, which now feels to them as infinite pain. They take 1 die of permanent damage each exploration turn, until they either stop the pain by applying more perfume, or the anguish kills them.<br />
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<b>Perfume name prefix</b></div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
<b>d20</b></div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
<b>Perfume name suffix</b></div>
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1</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Manticore Orchid...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
1</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Water</div>
</td>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
2</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Imperial Dragon...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
2</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Musk</div>
</td>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
3</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Red-Blooded Rose...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
3</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Rain</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="CENTER">
4</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Lemon-Scented Sticky...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
4</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Pearl</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
5</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Prismatic Bloom...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
5</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Elixir</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
6</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Divine Aloe...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
6</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Heaven</div>
</td>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
7</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Cardamom Kiss...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
7</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Eternity</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
8</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Tepid Dill...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
8</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Allure</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
9</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Midnight...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
9</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Fantasy</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
10</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Shimmering...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
10</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Sweetness</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
11</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Unforgivable…</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
11</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Sparkle</div>
</td>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
12</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Uninhibited...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
12</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Potency</div>
</td>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
13</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Seduction of...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
13</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Heat Ultimate</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
14</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
True Heart’s...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
14</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Gold Rush</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
15</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Barbarian Thew...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
15</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Juice</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
16</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Princess Chamber...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
16</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Fire Breath</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
17</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Killer Queen’s...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
17</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Sin</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
18</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Romantic Rogue’s...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
18</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Love Dew</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
19</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Morgankaiden’s Mature...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
19</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...Flirtation</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="CENTER">
20</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
Lich Prince’s Everlasting...</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
20</div>
</td>
<td><div align="CENTER">
...No. 9</div>
</td>
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<h3>
Sample Perfumes </h3>
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Here are a fe<span style="font-family: inherit;">w sample perfumes to get you started.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Barbarian Thew Gold Rush:</b></i> For 4 days, a fume haze makes you harder to hit, granting +2 AC. You automatically fail your next saving throw against fire. The next time you take fire damage, the damage is doubled, and the effect then ends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Morgankaiden’s Mature Fantasy:</b></i> For 12 hours, you have a powerful pheromonal scent. Wolves, dogs, bears, and related creatures such as lycanthropes thereof, are enamored with you. At the same time, corporeal undead such as zombies and vampires are revolted by you, seeking out to harm you specifically and unrelentingly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Lich Prince’s Everlasting Potency:</b></i> For 10 hours, all who meet you become keenly aware of the shortest path to you and can track you unerringly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Uninhibited Sweetness:</b></i> For 4 days, you have a powerful pheromonal scent. Cats, tigers, hyenas, mongooses, and related creatures such as weretigers and gnolls are enamored with you. At the same time, human males are revolted by you and seek out to harm you, whether socially or in combat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Cardamom Kiss Sin: </b></i>For 10 hours, your presence is physically painful to corporeal undead such as zombies and vampires. They will attempt to flee, and if that is impossible, will begin to take 1 die of damage per round until destroyed. If you are a vampire yourself, you will also take 1 die of damage per per round. The effects end if the perfume is washed off.</span>Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-71494854501601334382019-07-15T12:58:00.000-07:002019-07-18T05:56:31.510-07:00The Way to Do Ascending Armor Class<h2>
Why Ascending?</h2>
As a DM who loves the OSR, you probably want to get as many people into it as possible. Thus, if there is something you can do to make the game more accessible without any functional changes, you should probably do it. For example: using ascending armor class, which the vast majority of players are more familiar with than descending armor class.<br />
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Of course, old adventure modules you will use at the table descending armor class. In this case, it's easy for you, as the DM, to look at the page and convert the number in your head. Far easier and faster, at least, than having to explain attack tables or THAC0 to each new player.<br />
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<h2>
The Full Score</h2>
Conversion is as simple as subtracting the old AC or THAC0 value from your conversion base, which is a fixed number. So what do you choose as this base? If the choice can make the mental arithmetic even a tiny sliver easier for you, then it will save a lot of time in the long run. I find that a round number like 20 is slightly easier to subtract from. <br />
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So your conversion formula would look like this:<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Desceding AC = 20 - Ascending AC</b><br />
<b>Attack Bonus = 20 - THAC0</b><br />
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Thus, if you're reading an old module and see a monster with 5 AC, you tell the players that it has 15 AC. Monster attack bonus is an even easier case: you don't even need to check the attack table if you can memorize how monster HD relates to attack bonus. In our case, that is exceptionally easy - monsters have an attack bonus equal to their HD! (At least up to 8 HD - the B/X attack progression slows down at very high HDs.) That means that monsters with less than 1 HD have +1, and so on. "Normal men", which I like to think of as "level 0 types", have an attack bonus of +0.<br />
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Very clean, right? It's kind of intuitive that all 1st level PCs attack at +1, and thus all "normal humans" - those who haven't gained a class - attack at +0. Anyone with a class attacks at +1 (you can think of 'monster' as a class).<br />
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If you chose another number as your base, say 19, then level 0 types would attack at -1? That's weird.<br />
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So if 20 is such a good base, surely most modern AAC-using retroclones use it? As it turns out, no.<br />
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<h2>
The Big Comparison<i><b> </b></i></h2>
<i><b>Swords & Wizardry</b></i> offers both descending and ascending AC. Old-school descending AC and attack tables are the same as B/X - unarmored AC is 9. In ascending AC, unarmored is 10. This means that to hit an opponent with 20 AC, a 1st level Fighter needs to roll a 20 - as if her attack bonus was +0. So does that mean normal humans have an attack bonus of -1? The book doesn't say. Is the authors's sole reason for choosing 19 as the conversion base that an "unarmored base AC" of 10 looks pretty? If so, I don't think that's a very good reason.<br />
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<i>B/X Essentials</i> only includes descending armor class, but its upcoming refinement <i><b>Old-School Essentials</b></i> adds an option for ascending armor class. It sets <a href="https://necrotic-gnome-productions.blogspot.com/2019/02/old-school-essentials-big-whats-new-post.html?showComment=1550509798933#c7786031369130029712">unarmored AC at 10, taking its cue from Swords & Wizardry</a>.<br />
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<i><b>Lamentations of the Flame Princess</b></i> goes in a completely different direction. There, unarmored characters have 12 AC (ascending). In other words, the conversion base is 21 (21-9 = 12). To match, Fighters attack at +2. But all other PC classes only attack at +1, so they've been demoted to "normal humans" - while NPCs themselves attack at +0! Overall, everything is harder to hit, to suit the game's greater emphasis on horror. I actually think this is a bit of a trap for new players, who get recommended LotFP as the "default, generic" OSR game, but are faced with a lot more frustration than anticipated. Buyer beware!<br />
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<i><b>Basic Fantasy RPG</b></i>, for one, does it right. PCs have an attack bonus of +1, normal men of +0, and unarmored AC is 11! Hooray! For everything BFRPG does that I disagree with, here is one part where they knock it out of the park: designing with the actual use case (on-the-fly conversion) in mind, rather than for a surface appearance of elegance.<br />
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I don't think anyone cares if unarmored AC is a nice round number - when it goes on the sheet, it gets modified by their equipment and Dexterity anyway. Basic Fantasy: 1, Swords & Wizardry: 0.<br />
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<i>Of course, if you use the above system and play a S&W module that lists both DAC and AAC, you will need to either use the DAC for conversion, raise the quoted AAC by 1, or use the AAC as-is and be happy with the fact that monsters are nerfed by 1 AC, which is probably perfectly fine.</i><br />
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<i>(Another tiny caveat: the above only talks about converting B/X and OD&D materials, where unarmored is 9 and Fighters have THAC0 19. AD&D actually changes these, moving unarmored to 10 and giving Fighters THAC0 20 to match. If you use the above to convert the AC values from an AD&D module, you will end up nerfing the monsters by 1 point. And that's probably perfectly fine too.)</i><br />
<br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-78862691273225582202019-07-15T11:04:00.002-07:002019-07-18T05:47:58.061-07:00Monster: Spell Scroll Mummy<b></b><br />
<i>A strange mummy wanders the sandy wastes, not bound to a tomb
like others of its kind. Even the burning sun seems to dim in its presence.
If you choose to go near it, you notice strange symbols on its
wrappings. Magic-users immediately recognize these as spell scrolls.</i><br />
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<b>HD </b>6<br />
<b>AC </b>15 [descending AC 5]*<br />
<b>Atk </b>#1 touch (1d12 + spell drain)<br />
<b>Mv </b>60' (20')<br />
<b>Sv</b> 13+ (or as F6) <br />
<b>Al </b>Chaos <br />
<b>XP </b>500<br />
<b>NA</b> 1 (1d4)<br />
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The spell scroll mummy hungers for magic. It can smell spellbooks and spell scrolls and will hunt down and attack anyone carrying them. It will leave alone travelers that have neither and wander back into the desert, unless attacked.<br />
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If the mummy decides to advance, anyone who sees it must save vs. Paralysis or be paralysed with terror until they no longer see the mummy or the mummy attacks someone.<br />
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The mummy's wrappings contain 8 spells total: three of 1st, three of 2nd, and two of 3rd level.<br />
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Each hit die's worth of cumulative damage the mummy takes destroys one of the scrolls. If the mummy takes fire damage, a scroll explodes, casting the inscribed spell at a random target. The scrolls are not harmed by non-physical damage such as <i>magic missile</i>. Clever players may find other ways to disable the mummy and retrieve the scrolls from it without destroying them.<br />
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If the mummy's attack hits a magic-user or similar spellcaster, the spellcaster loses one of their prepared spells, if any, starting from the lowest level slot available. A spell slot absorbed in this way heals the mummy for 1 HD's worth and magically scribes the spell into its wrappings.<br />
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The mummy cannot absorb divine (i.e. clerical) magic and has no interest in it.<br />
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As an undead, the mummy is immune to poison and mind-affecting spells.<br />
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<i>* For <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-way-to-do-ascending-armor-class.html">ascending AC, I use unarmored = 11</a>. This makes converting old material easy: AC = 20-DAC, base attack bonus = 20-THAC0. A normal human attacks at +0, and most monsters' attack bonus equals their HD.</i>Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-28202576958016037442019-03-27T09:57:00.000-07:002019-03-27T10:17:20.856-07:00Adventure Site: Lumber Hulk LoggersHere's a small adventure site/scenario. Plop it onto your hex key on the edge of a forest or something.<br />
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<b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K5LhrDbNlXXL09Ka9Ehpnr-GN02Phhus/">[ Click here for a PDF version that nicely fits on two pages. ]</a></b><br />
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There's a big mechanical contraption. Usually I
hate stuff that forces too many assumptions about technological levels
on your setting, but what can I say, when inspiration strikes, you
follow it. <br />
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There should always be consequences for players' actions - this scenario teaches them that indirectly, as the villains are a dark mirror of the players, adventurers turned murderhobo with human consequences.<br />
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<h3>
Conversion notes</h3>
AC is ascending, with unarmored AC at 11. To convert to Swords & Wizardry ascending AC, deduct 1 from all AC and to-hit values. To convert to Lamentations of the Flame Princess, add 1 to all AC values. To convert to B/X descending AC, subtract all AC values from 20.<br />
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Gold standard. MV refers to full movement rate, so divide it by three to find regular combat movement speed. Skills (Climb, etc.) are assumed to be as per LotFP (from 1 to 6). If you don't use skills, replace Architecture/Tinker with Intelligence modifier and a +2 bonus for Dwarves.<br />
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<h2>
Lumber Hulk Loggers</h2>
<b><br />Rumour: </b>A trio of bandit bosses has taken over the village of <b>Ashton </b>and is extorting it for all profits from the village’s lumber production. Apparently, the group was an adventuring party hired to retrieve <b>“the Lumber Hulk”</b>, the village’s ancient and poorly-understood dwarven tree-cutting contraption, from the forest after it was overrun by twig monsters. However, the adventurers stole the contraption for themselves and used it as a weapon to hold the village hostage. With their plundered wealth, they’ve hired callous mercenaries to watch over the enslaved villagers. One of the villagers managed to escape and is promising Ashton’s gratitude to whoever can rid them of the evildoers.<br />
<b><br />Village:</b> Ashton is divided into the main village and the lumber camp, a few hundred feet apart. At any time, the village proper houses 40 able-bodied men and women, watched over by 8 cold-hearted mercenaries. Most of the mercenaries man small watch-towers hastily built from wooden planks. Two ex-adventurer bosses will be lounging about the village, usually <b>Ogden </b>and <b>Selby</b>. All wealth in the village has been gathered up by the bandits. One or two houses are crushed remains. Loud rumbling and buzzing emanates from the adjacent forest. If the villagers see the player characters approach, they will stare with uncertain expressions on fatigued faces, as the party might well be nothing but fresh mercenaries.<br />
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<b>Camp: </b>At any time, 20 able-bodied villagers are working in the lumber camp, sawing up wood that is being cut down by the dwarven contraption. One of the three ex-adventurers operates the Lumber Hulk - usually <b>Yavor</b>, the dwarf. 6 mercenaries keep watch on small wooden watch-towers. It is hard to hear anything here due to the noise from the machine.<br />
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<b>Villagers (60):</b> HD 1-1, AC 11, MV 120’, ML 7, Atk (+0) axe d6 or improvised weapon d4.<br />
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<b>Mercenary (14):</b> HD 1, AC 13 (leather), MV 90’, ML 8, Atk (+1) spear or bow d6. 1d6 gp.<br />
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<b>Yavor Scarscalp</b>, Dwarf 3: HD 3d8, AC 15 (mail), MV 60’, Atk (+2) battleaxe d8. Yavor understands the Hulk the best. If an enemy takes control of it, he will attempt to climb on its back and remove the crystal (see ‘power slot’). <i>Pouch containing gems x 5 of total value 1200 gp (topaz 500 gp, tourmaline 500 gp, carnelian 100 gp, obsidian 50gp, blue quartz 50 gp).</i><br />
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<b>Ogden</b>, Cleric 3: HD 3d6, AC 15 (mail), MV 90’, Atk (+1) mace d8. Ogden has lost the favour of his god due to his evil deeds, but does not know it and will not find out until he attempts to cast cure light wounds and the spell fails. <i>1150 gp, holy symbol worth 50 gp. Slaying Ogden and returning the holy symbol to a temple will result in a blessing.</i><br />
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<b>Selby</b>, Magic-User 2: HD 2d4, AC 11 (robes), MV 120’, Atk (+1) staff d4, spells: charm person, hold portal. It was Selby’s idea to turn the Hulk on the villagers; they despise him the most. <i>Leather case with 90 pp, potion of detect magic.</i><br />
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<b>The Lumber Hulk</b>: Hull points 5 (any hit deals 1 hull point of damage for every 10 points of regular hit point damage), AC 16, MV 60’, Atk sawblade 3d6 or claw 1d6 + grapple.<br />
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The Hulk is a metal box the size of a shed with two mechanical arms, on four wooden wagon wheels, topped by a cockpit with a complex set of levers used to control the Hulk (see ‘controls’). There is an opening in front of the box that acts as an inlet for logs, and an outlet in the rear. On the back of the box above the lumber outlet is a hatch (see ‘power slot’). If the Hulk loses all its hull points, it can no longer move, though it can still attack.<br />
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<b>Combat:</b> The circular sawblade arm is used to cut down trees while the claw arm holds on to the trunk. The log is then inserted by the claw into the opening in the centre of the Hulk. Spinning wheels on the inside pass it through while blades cut it lengthwise.<br />
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The Hulk uses the operator’s Tinker or Architecture skill as its attack bonus (i.e. +1 to +6). A character that is hit with the claw must save vs. Paralysis or be grappled. As an attack on a subsequent round, the claw can insert the grappled character into the blades. A successful save vs. Death allows escape, but otherwise the outcome is death.<br />
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If the Hulk drives into a creature, it must save vs. Paralysis or be crushed by the wheels and take 2d8 damage. Driving into a wooden building will likely destroy it.<br />
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The cockpit’s cover grants +4 AC against ranged attacks. Reaching melee range under stress requires a Climb check at +2, but melee attacks against a busy operator are surprise attacks.<br />
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<b>Controls: </b>The first time a character operates the Hulk, and once per turn during challenging situations such as combat, a Tinker or Architecture skill check is required. On a failure, the operator loses control of the contraption, which starts at full speed in a random direction for d6 rounds, after which another attempt to regain control can be made.<br />
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<b>Power slot:</b> In the back of the Lumber Hulk is a metal <b>hatch </b>with the Dwarven text “EMERGENCY SHUT-OFF” painted in red. The hatch is easily opened by hand to reveal the glowing moonstone <b>crystal </b>powering the contraption. Removing the crystal under stress requires an Open Doors or Tinker check. Shattering it with a hammer or similar automatically succeeds, while an improvised blunt tool such as a sword pommel or axe butt requires an attack roll against AC 15. Edged weapons are ineffective. When the crystal is either destroyed or removed, the Hulk becomes inactive (no movement or attacks). The crystal is worth 3000 gp whole, or 300 gp if shattered.<br />
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<br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-62422560598063766202019-03-15T11:31:00.000-07:002019-03-15T11:38:52.442-07:00OSR Class: Skeleton AdventurerI guess the <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2019/03/osr-class-trollkin-half-troll.html">Trollkin class</a> set my mind on the track of "slightly monstrous adventurers with death-avoiding abilities". I googled "OSR skeleton class" and found only this: <a href="https://www.necropraxis.com/2014/02/06/skeleton-class/">https://www.necropraxis.com/2014/02/06/skeleton-class/</a> so consider this class inspired by Necropraxis's. Essentially I've codified a bit more what it means to be an undead PC, and made the class rather more party-dependant.<br />
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The weird thing is, I don't even like monstrous PCs. Or perhaps I just don't like them being "core" options at the front of the book. I think the upfront choice presented to players should be simple. I see more exotic races/classes as something to be "unlocked" as the campaign progresses and more is learned about the world and alliances are forged - their availability depends on the PCs' actions in some way. Or for use in specific cases, like when a character becomes hopelessly lost in a necromantic dungeon.<br />
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Anyway, it's just your standard skelly. Fragile and misunderstood, dependant on others. Some weaknesses, some immunities. There is a bittersweet undertone to being brought back to “life”, because you know it’s not going to last forever.<br />
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Class: Skeleton Adventurer</h2>
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<i><b>Spooky:</b></i> You creep people out, though they’re not quite sure why. When wearing concealing robes and a hood, you have -2 to reaction rolls from civil society. When not concealed, you will be attacked on sight.<br />
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Due to your hollow voice, the reaction penalty applies even when using sight-based illusions, but illusions that also have an auditory component will negate the penalty.<br />
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<i><b>Brittle:</b> </i>You take an additional die of damage from bludgeoning and crushing attacks, e.g. hammers, wolf jaws, and falling stones.<br />
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<i><b>Unliving:</b></i> You do not not need to breathe, eat or sleep. You are immune to sleep effects (but not charm effects), diseases and most poisons. You gain no benefit from magical healing, but can repair yourself during downtime at the usual healing rate. Unintelligent undead will ignore you unless you attack. Also, you can feign dead perfectly.<br />
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<i><b>Meatless:</b> </i>You are very light, weighing only about 10-20 pounds. When riding piggyback, you only take up two inventory slots (or the equivalent of two standard swords).<br />
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<i><b>Turn Resistance:</b> </i>You are affected by Turn Undead as an undead of HD equal to your level, but get a save vs. Magic to resist a successful turning.<br />
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<i><b>Well-Articulated:</b> </i>You can detach a limb to use as a club for d6 damage.<br />
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<i><b>Reconstitution:</b> </i>When reduced to 0 hit points or below, you crumple into a pile of bones. You may can be rebuilt and brought back to unlife. An attempt to rebuild your skeleton takes one turn, and requires an Intelligence ability check (or Medicine skill check, if your ruleset includes it) to succeed, though the cost of failure is only wasted time. On a successful check, you return to unlife, but lose 1 point from your Constitution score.<br />
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After reconstitution, there is a 1-in-6 chance that a random limb is missing, but you can always scavenge other peoples’ bones to find a replacement.<br />
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Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-9055200869533377402019-03-13T13:22:00.001-07:002019-03-13T13:22:44.960-07:00Differentiating Spellcasters: Spell Orbs, Elven Mind-Palaces, and moreThese are some of the kookier ideas I’m kicking about. The Elven one, I think, is a really flavourful and small change that makes them more Moorcockian/ Melnibonéan, which I dig. The Cleric change is something that makes sense to me fluff-wise, but I’m not sure if it might break the game too much - please let me know what you think. The Magic-User one is the most kooky, and has the biggest impact on how the game plays, so I've saved it for last. Any of these can be implemented separate of each other. As always, nothing is playtested until stated otherwise.<br />
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Clerical Miracle-Working</h2>
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<b>Spontaneous Casting:</b> Clerics no longer prepare spells. They can spontaneously cast any spell they know, which “spends” the corresponding spell slot. As usual, sleep and meditation is required to recover spent spell slots.<br />
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Elven Sorcery </h2>
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<b>Casting:</b> Elves are innately sorcerous. Instead of using Spell-Orbs (see Magic-User), spells simply emanate out of an Elf's hand, though they share the Magic-User's spell list.<br />
<br /><b>Mind-Palaces:</b> Instead of a spellbook, Elves carve their spells into their personal <b>Mind-Palace</b>, which exists in the plane of dreams.<br />
<br />Transcribing a new spell into their Mind-Palace requires a long and deep trance and the use of special incense and potions. In terms of time and gold cost, this is the same as for Magic-Users. However, unlike a spellbook, the Mind-Palace cannot be physically stolen or destroyed (although astral travel into the <b>plane of dreams</b> may enable one to vandalize an Elf’s mind palace, or steal spell formulae). An Elf’s Mind-Palace starts with only the Read Magic spell.<br />
<br /><b>Preparing & Learning:</b> Elves still prepare spells into slots, which is done during their nightly sleep/trance. Each time they gain a level, an Elf learns a new spell of a level of their choice and adds it to their Mind-Palace at no gold cost (though the time requirement still applies).<br />
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Magic-Users’ Spell-Orbs</h2>
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<b>Preparing:</b>
When Magic-Users prepare spells (which requires access to their
spellbook), they create a one-use physical object for each prepared
spell called a <b>Spell-Orb</b>.<br />
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<b>Appearance:</b> Assume a
Spell-Orb takes up roughly one "slot" of inventory, or about the same
space as a flask of oil. Most Spell-Orbs appear as glass balls with
energies swirling inside them. However, they may also be any other
sufficiently sized fragile and obviously mystical object: a charm made
of sticks and bones, an unstable alchemical concoction in a bottle, or a
latticework of herbs and crustacean legs joined with the mixed saliva
of birds and the Magic-User. A Spell-Orb may be set into the tip of a
staff for convenience.<br />
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long robes is to conceal their Spell-Orbs within the myriad folds and
secret pockets, in order to prevent assailants from snatching or
destroying them.)<br /><br />
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<b>Casting:</b> Using the Spell-Orb
requires gesturing with it, which then triggers the spell and destroys
the orb. Ranged spells require the orb to be thrown, though they cannot
miss; they orbs transform mid-air into magic missiles, fireballs and so
on, functioning just the same as any other spellcasting method.<br /><br />
Other characters may also use Spell-Orbs created by a Magic-User. Characters who are not Magic-Users,
or Magic-Users of an insufficient level to cast the spell, can attempt to use them with a risk of failure. When you make such an attempt, roll
your Arcana skill (1+INT in 6, Magic-Users have +1) with a penalty equal to
the spell’s level. Example: if your Arcana skill is 4 and you use a 2nd
level spell, you have a 2-in-6 chance of succeeding.<br />
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If the Arcana attempt fails with a roll of 6 on the die, the
spell is a misfire: it is triggered but with its target or effect
reversed (as deemed appropriate by the Referee). If it fails on any other number, the spell is not triggered and the Spell-Orb remains unused. A character who has failed to trigger a specific orb may not attempt to use that orb again, though it is still usable by others. Thrown Spell-Orbs
(i.e. ranged spells) that fail to trigger merely fall onto the ground, but when hitting a
hard surface have a 1-in-6 chance to shatter. When a fallen orb shatters, it
triggers the spell, targeting the space it landed in. Fallen spell orbs
can also be shattered by missile attacks (AC 17 to hit). <br />
<br />Unused
Spell-Orbs harmlessly disappear out of existence when the Magic-User recovers their spell slots. When the Magic-User dies,
each of their active spell orbs has a 4-in-6 chance of dissipating harmlessly,
and a 1-in-6 chance of exploding and triggering the spell, otherwise
persisting and remaining usable by others.<br />
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Spellbooks work as before: each time they gain a level, a Magic-User
learns a new spell of a level of their choice and adds it to their
spellbook at no gold cost (though the time requirement still applies).<br /><br />
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Rationale</h2>
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The physicality of orbs will help players
unfamiliar with Vancian casting grasp the meaning of spell slots. In
Vance’s stories, spells are living things that inhabit a wizard’s head
through his concentration and discomfort. Now, they will be concrete things the character can hold. Also, this will make inventory management
a factor for Magic-Users (particularly suited to <b>slot-based inventory</b> systems, and those with rules for item breakage). Allowing other characters to use orbs opens
up new possibilities, but at a risk. As for shattering orbs, I’ve
always liked how in Nethack et al. burned scrolls can explode, broken
potions still apply their effects, and so on. It really ties magic into the
environment, a real part of the world. (And, honestly, I kind of want to see someone try to jam a fireball orb down a white dragon's gullet.) Also, spell orbs once again harken back to <a href="http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2014/08/1974-dungeon-variant-now-for-download.html?showComment=1409819027086#c7816734692169886786">certain concepts in Dave Arneson's early games</a>, though I do not know how the mechanics there exactly worked. If you have good information on Arnesonian spell balls, please let me know.<br /><br />
Many systems try to take out the spellcasting system from D&D and replace it with something else, like spell points. None so far have produced better results in play than the original system.<br />I currently have no interest in redoing the entire spell system, or writing new spell lists, or most importantly, <b>breaking compatibility</b> with existing TSR & OSR materials. However “slots vs. spell points” is not the only parameter that can be modified in the spell system. There are at least the following parameters, off the top of my head:<br />
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<li>Casting spells - the actions required to activate a spell, and any restrictions to doing so such as “no armour”, and any side effects of these actions (magical mishaps, etc.)</li>
<li>Preparing spells - when and how a character chooses the spells available for the adventure, or if they have all the spells they know available (spontaneous casting)</li>
<li>Learning spells - whether a character knows all spells on their list, or knows a subset of it, and whether there is a maximum on the size of the known subset</li>
<li>Spell resources - what is spent to use spells: spell slots and spell levels, spell points, HP drain, increasing risks, etc. </li>
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Of these, #4 seems to be the most often complained about, and most often modified. It’s also the one that needs the most work, and often <b>breaks compatibility</b> with existing spell lists, because translating spell levels to a shared resource doesn’t work too well. (It’s not really even the part that’s the most “Vancian” - preparation is.)<br />
<br />It appears to me that the other parameters - how to cast spells, how to prepare spells, and how to learn spells - are a much more fruitful area for modification. Changes to them have a much smaller interface with the rest of the rulebook - although they may still have far-reaching balance consequences during play (such as allowing Magic-Users to cast spontaneously).<br />
<br />With small changes like these to how your spellcasters learn, copy, prepare and cast spells, you can give them unique flavour without invalidating existing spell lists and compatibility with modules. The possibilities are endless. Imagine, for example, a druid’s spell slots each taking the form of an animal spirit when not prepared, or an elf who can only channel spells through weapon attacks, or...<br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-14703464520277775492019-03-10T13:32:00.000-07:002019-03-11T05:47:21.639-07:00Ascending Damage & Dicing With Death<h2>
The rule</h2>
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You no longer have hit points. You have a <b>Wounds </b>tally - the higher it goes, the more badly you've been hurt. You start at 0 Wounds. Whenever you are hit by an attack, you suffer 1 Wound. (This replaces HP damage. Damage sources that would deal multiple dice of damage deal one Wound per die of damage.)<br />
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You have a <b>Maximum Wounds</b> number from your class table (modified by CON - <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2019/03/making-case-for-limited-ability.html">note that there are no negative ability modifiers, as per this previous post</a>, so Max Wounds is always at least 1). If your Wounds exceeds your Maximum Wounds, you must <b><i>Dice With Death</i>:</b> roll a d20. If the result is below your current Wounds, you die. However, if the result is above your Constitution score, you fall unconscious for 1 hour.<br />
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While above your Maximum Wounds, you must Dice With Death again each time you take further Wounds. Additionally, you have -2 to attack rolls and AC.<br />
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The rationale</h2>
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Dying and initiative seem to be the two topics that I re-tread over and over, no matter the system I’m playing. I recently realized that <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/08/d-without-damage-dice.html">“Health” as the number of hits to kill a PC from my earlier post</a> (which replaces rolled damage) would pair perfectly with an ascending damage system. That is, one where you tally up the damage you’ve taken on your character sheet, instead of subtracting from your hit points tally.<br />
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In the regular D&D system of HP and damage rolls, there is uncertainty at first, followed by certainty: first, you take variable amounts of damage, but once you’re at 0 HP, you’re dead (or unconscious or whatever it may be). The mechanics move from dynamic to static as play progresses. On the other hand, this proposed system of static damage (1 Wound per die) makes things… well, static and predictable at first. But Dicing With Death makes the next phase dynamic and uncertain. It flips the script of the adventure around, as it were: the uncertainty of rolling is moved to the later, higher stakes part of the game. As the adventure progresses and resources dwindle, uncertainty goes up. And, thematically, that makes sense, right?<br />
<i><br />(By the way, there exists a third system that differs from both the “dynamic to static” and “static to dynamic” systems. It’s the “static to static” system where a hit is a hit and death is death. Such a system was used in the very early days of the proto-D&D game which was based on Chainmail. Characters simply had “hits to kill” - so instead of having two hit dice, you could take precisely two hits, and then you were dead. For example: "Ogres are killed when they have taken an accumulation of six missile or melee hits in normal combat". As mentioned in the previous post, these “hits” were only later expanded into the more incremental system of hit point rolls and damage rolls, <a href="http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/540/540395p3.html">when players complained about dying too quickly</a>. And that’s where hit dice get their name.)</i><br />
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I have always been fascinated by mechanics that add uncertainty at the point of (near-)death. Uncertainty means tension. However, damage rolls are not tense, because they’re routine and average out in the long run. They’re only tense when you’re very low - if you have 6 HP, then the trap’s 2d6 damage roll is the difference between life and death. But up until you get to that threat range, the damage rolls don’t matter, and you might as well just take the average result every time.<br />
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"Death spiral" systems, i.e. ones where your fighting capability falls linearly as you take damage, are bad for a different reason. They remove uncertainty up front: whoever gets hit first has probably lost, and the result of a fight is decided and obvious from the beginning.. <br />
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Essentially, what I have done is extended the relative space of play where a single roll decides the fate of a player character. However, I haven’t made things more lethal overall. In fact, I’ve given players slightly more resources - <i>first </i>they lose their health, and then they get complications, while still having a chance to survive. You could perhaps call it a safety cushion, but the important thing is that the risk is real (unlike, say, <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/01/deaths-door-part-1-biggest-problem-with.html">5th edition’s death saves which make it virtually impossible to die</a>). At the same time, I’ve given players <i>more </i>rope to hang themselves with (which is always more fun). In an HP damage system, getting knocked out can be sudden (and double damage critical hits exacerbate the problem), but after it happens there’s nothing players can do about it that. But here, if they’re badly wounded and dicing with death, they always have the option to keep fighting and exploring. If they don’t want to retreat, it’s their own choice.<br />
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Compatibility & benefits</h2>
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D&D with static and ascending damage might look very different to the D&D you know. However, it should be reiterated that this is all <i>entirely </i>compatible with existing materials and modules. When you play a module and it says you take 3d6 damage, you instead take three Wounds. The majority of the time there’s no maths involved in conversion - in fact there’s less maths than when playing normally.<br />
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Apart from cutting down on maths and redundant rolling, the Wounds tally system also has a logistical benefit. Character sheets get worn down more from erasing than they do from writing on them. When you play with descending HP, you have to erase a number and write a new one every time you take a hit. When you check a box each time you take a Wound (unlike HP, the maximum number of Wounds is small enough to reasonably be represented as checkboxes on the sheet), you only need to use an eraser when you get healed. And healing is a less frequent occurrence than taking damage. Therefore, you're saving trees by playing this way!<br />
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Optional rules</h2>
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Though these reduce the elegance of the system, I may add them later to tweak the lethality once I see how it works out in playtesting. As always, everything is just theorycrafting so far, unless otherwise stated.<br />
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<b>Critical Failures</b>: When you Dice With Death, if you roll exactly your current number of Wounds, you suffer an additional Wound from internal bleeding (and must, therefore, Dice With Death again).<br />
<b><br />Adrenaline Spike</b>: One exploration turn after any combat or chase in which you have Diced With Death, your adrenaline runs out; you must Dice With Death one more time, unless you have been healed down to your Max Wounds or below.<br />
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Static damage & different weapons<b><br /></b></h2>
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<li><b>Daggers </b>have a -2 penalty to hit against defenders armed with long weapons. (That means things like swords, spears and polearms.) This does not apply to unaware targets or those who are otherwise unable to defend themselves.<b> </b></li>
<li><b>Two-handed weapons and crossbows</b> are Devastating. On a natural 20, they deal an additional Wound. Other weapons don't get to do that.<b> </b></li>
<li><b>Unarmed strikes and improvised weapons</b> (torches, thrown rocks, etc.) only deal damage on a successful Open Doors roll (2+STR in 6).</li>
<li><b>Fighters </b>get some other neat bonuses to make up for losing the bigger damage dice - more details on that in a later post.</li>
<li><b>Leader monsters</b> and monsters in modules listed with maximum HP may be counted as one HD higher (take 1 Wound more to kill than normal). For example, if a den of goblins (HD 1 = 1 Wound) is lead by a chieftain with 8 HP, then count the chieftain as HD 2 when determining Wounds to kill it.</li>
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Bonus: Other potential uses for “roll-between” mechanics</h2>
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Notice how when you Dice With Death(tm), you're trying to roll above one target number but below another? Just spitballing, but:<br />
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<li>When you hit with a two-handed axe, if the attack roll is below or equal to your Strength score, you sever a limb.</li>
<li>When you hit while dual-wielding light weapons, if the attack roll is below or equal to your Dexterity score on your attack roll, you deal double damage.</li>
<li>When you are parrying with a lighter weapon, if the opponent’s attack roll misses but is above your Strength score, your weapon is flung from your grasp. Otherwise, if the attack roll is below or equal to your Dexterity score, you get a free counterattack.</li>
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Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-11105936034351454032019-03-09T01:05:00.000-08:002019-03-09T01:05:26.480-08:00OSR Class: Trollkin (Half-Troll)<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VuTHU-pWydiPnV3irCnvAhoizKuD1qAZ/">[ click here for single-page PDF version ]</a>
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You’re probably not really half troll, but have some portion of troll blood, or are merely the result of a curse or potion misuse. You look like an abnormally tall, gangly, lumpy, warty human. People view you as a freak, but not a monster - at least until they see your severed head talking.
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<i><b>Hit Dice & Attack:</b></i> as Fighter
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<i><b>Saves: </b></i>as Fighter, except Breath is 1 worse and Poison is 1 better
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<i><b>Experience:</b></i> 3,000 XP to 2nd level
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<i><b>Troll Blood:</b></i> You regain 6 HP at the end of each hour, unless hungry.
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<i><b>Lumpy:</b></i> You have a +1 bonus to AC, but you are unable to wear armour other than leather.
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<i><b>Monstrous Hunger: </b></i>You must eat two rations each day, instead of only one. You can smell meat and rotting corpses inside a room through the door, and you can eat things that most people couldn’t (or wouldn’t).
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<i><b>Troll Weakness: </b></i>You take one additional die of damage from fire or acid (so 1d4 becomes 2d4, 6d6 becomes 7d6, and so on), and you cannot use your Limbs Shall Be Severed ability for 1 exploration turn thereafter. If you are hit with an attack while you are surprised and holding a torch, you must save vs. Breath or take 4 damage from the flame.
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<i><b>Limbs Shall Be Severed: </b></i>Starting at 4th level, when a melee attack would kill you, roll to lose a random body part instead. d5: 1 = left leg, 2 = right leg, 3 = left arm, 4 = right arm, 5 = head. That part is now severed, and you are at 1 HP rather than dead.
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If you rolled a limb, it falls off dead from your body, and grows back after 1 day.<br />
If you rolled the head, your body drops dead, while your head is still alive. You still have your senses, but you cannot move or act except for attempting to bite anyone holding you for 1d2 damage. Your body grows back after 1 week. <br />
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When forced to roll for a lost body part additional times, you die if you are just a head, and you also die if you roll a limb that’s already missing.
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Image: CC SA 3.0 by www.cuco.com.ar Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-36540105698723800642019-03-08T14:36:00.000-08:002019-03-09T00:49:16.487-08:00Random LotFP Class Generator<!DOCTYPE html>
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var other_features_weight = 10;
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{ value: "You can cast spells from the Cleric list.", cost: 0, weight: 10},
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{ value: " only.", cost: 0, weight: 10},
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{ value: " and 2 additional random spells.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: " and 3 additional random spells.", cost: 150, weight: 10}]
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{ value: "Your spell slots use the Cleric's level progression.", cost: 500, weight: 10}
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{ value: "d12", cost: 400, weight: 1},
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{ value: "Specialist", cost: 0, weight: 2},
{ value: "Dwarf", cost: 200, weight: 1},
{ value: "Elf", cost: 100, weight: 1},
{ value: "Halfling", cost: 300, weight: 1},
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{
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{ value: "Additional +2 to-hit with Aim.", cost: 100, weight: 1},
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{ value: "You are surprised less often (1-in-6).", cost: 100, weight: other_features_weight},
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{ value: "Due to your small size, you cannot wield large weapons, and must use medium weapons two-handed.", cost: -100, weight: other_features_weight},
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{
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{ value: "You are innately Chaotic. Holy water deals damage to you, and certain spells like Bless and Charm Person do not affect you.", cost: 150, weight: other_features_weight},
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{ value: "You start with 2 skill points, and gain 1 skill point each time you gain a level.", cost: 300, weight: 25},
{ value: "You start with 4 skill points, and gain 2 skill points each time you gain a level.", cost: 600, weight: 10},
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{ value: "Architecture starts at 2-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: "Architecture starts at 3-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 200, weight: 5},
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{
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{ value: "Bushcraft starts at 2-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: "Bushcraft starts at 3-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 200, weight: 5},
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{
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{ value: "Climb starts at 2-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: "Climb starts at 3-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 200, weight: 5},
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{ value: "Languages starts at 2-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: "Languages starts at 3-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 200, weight: 5},
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{ value: "Search starts at 2-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: "Search starts at 3-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 200, weight: 5},
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{
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{ value: "Sleight of Hand starts at 2-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: "Sleight of Hand starts at 3-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 200, weight: 5},
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{
name: "skill_sneak_attack",
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{ value: "", cost: 0, weight: 185},
{ value: "Sneak Attack starts at 2, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: "Sneak Attack starts at 3, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 200, weight: 5},
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{
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{ value: "", cost: 0, weight: 185},
{ value: "Stealth starts at 2-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: "Stealth starts at 3-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 200, weight: 5},
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{
name: "skill_tinker",
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{ value: "", cost: 0, weight: 185},
{ value: "Tinker starts at 2-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 100, weight: 10},
{ value: "Tinker starts at 3-in-6, which increases by 1 at 4th, 7th, and 10th level.", cost: 200, weight: 5},
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}
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// If you're reading this: sup, nerd!
// For the original 7 LotFP classes, the mean and median XP costs are 2100 and 2000, respectively. The standard deviation is 473.
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Random LotFP class generator.
Credit to Emmy Allen for the numbers: <a href="http://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/2019/01/i-did-maths-to-lotfp-classes.html">http://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/2019/01/i-did-maths-to-lotfp-classes.html</a> (used with permission)<br />
Lamentations of the Flame Princess is an OGL game by James Edward Raggi IV.<br />
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Changes I made: Rolled the "Fighter Tax" into the Fighter's attack progression. Rolled being innately Chaotic together with being unnatural and harmed by holy water. Did not include the Fighter's "max HP at 1st level" feature. Added an interest rate for high XP cost combinations. HD d12 costs 400 instead of 300 XP.
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<span style="font-size: 20px;"> <b>YOUR RANDOM LotFP CLASS IS...<br /> THE _____________________ :</b> <br /><br /></span>
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All that we leave for you is to come up with the name for your class. Leave your suggestions in the comments below!
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Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-91525535511518172032019-03-07T12:27:00.000-08:002019-03-07T12:27:11.896-08:00Making the case for limited ability modifiers in OSRD&D B/X is, I would wager, the most popular basis for OSR games. Therefore, B/X style ability modifiers are the most common. In case you didn't know, ability modifiers in B/X range from -3 to +3 and are determined like this:<br />
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<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Score</th>
<th>Mod</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>-3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4-5</td>
<td>-2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6-8</td>
<td>-1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9-12</td>
<td>+0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13-15</td>
<td>+1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16-17</td>
<td>+2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18</td>
<td>+3</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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Nice, unified and symmetric. Except of course when it's not - only positive modifiers affect languages known, and reaction adjustments from Charisma only go from -2 to +2, and ditto for initiative adjustments from Dexterity. But we'll get back to that.<br />
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While this is probably the smoothest system in any official edition - more unified than Original and Advanced D&D's jumble of adjustments, and less game-deciding than WotC D&D's gigantic -5 to +5 range, they're not the best choice for everything.<br />
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Negative modifiers can be
problematic when you want to modify numbers that are naturally quite
small. Rulesets will often include things like “you can hold your breath
for a number of minutes equal to 1+CON”, which
will then require special stipulations and minimums for negative
modifiers.<br />
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Also, I have witnessed applying modifiers to dice rolls cause headaches to OSR hackers creating their own games using B/X as a starting point (often via Lamentations of the Flame Princess). ‘Esoteric Enterprises’ and <a href="http://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/2018/02/cavegirls-really-simple-d.html">other games by Emmy Allen</a> use X-in-6 skills like LotFP, except ability modifiers are applied to skills - though they can never go below 0-in-6 (rolled as a 1-in-36 chance). Since skills start at 1-in-6, this means that a modifier of -3 or -2 is the same as -1, not to mention that a +3 is pretty massive. The WIP <a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/106925737914345004043">post-apoc game Ruinations</a> by Brent Ault has gone through several iterations with its skill system, likewise attempting to include ability modifiers into skills, but trying to dampen their effect. At one iteration of the ruleset, skills were moved up to the d12, starting at 2-in-12, plus ability mods. Once again, anything below a -1 is not accounted for. The skill system was changed in <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10wBDvClLsJzhLt-JaTb2XGb_vEK4vNhS/view">a later version</a> to a d100 where start skills at 20%, and have each point of modifier count for 5%, so a -3 modifier would give a 5% success rate. Which, you'll notice, is mathematically the same as a d20 roll with the modifiers applying in their usual way.<br />
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Basically, the d6 skill system is liked (by me and many others) for its chunkiness - adding a pip to a d6 feels much better than adding a handful of points to a d20 - but big modifiers and big chunks don't mix.<br />
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I'm going to suggest something to all hackers, tinkerers and homebrewers right now:<br />
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<b>Ditch the negative ability modifiers from your game. Completely.</b><br />
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It's okay. Just because you're using B/X as your engine doesn't mean you NEED to have the same ability modifiers. It doesn't break compatibility. You still have the same scores, in the same range of 3-18, for when you take ability damage or whatever. You can still run Keep on the Borderlands even if there isn't some unlucky geezer running around with a -2 DEX. You still have HP, and XP, and AC. You can still use all the great TSR and OSR content out there exactly the same.<br />
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Then, <b>squish down the modifier ceiling</b> to one that you think won't break your maths too much.<br />
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Yes, it may be somewhat more fun for players to have wide variation in characters' abilities, and amusing to laugh at the one chump with a big negative modifier. But reducing modifiers to a range of, say, +0 to +2, opens up a lot more design space for a homebrewer. Never again will you have to worry about special stipulations when applying modifiers to a base number of 1.<br />
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(Btw, this pairs quite well with the static Health/Wounds mechanic <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/08/d-without-damage-dice.html">I talked about in an earlier post</a> - I'll just have CON modifier increase your starting Health at level 1, but more on that in a later post.)<br />
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As for precedents, there are already places where B/X et
al. restrict adjustments from abilities to -2 to +2, like reactions,
initiative, and XP adjustments - because a +3 would be far too large a
modifier on a 2d6 roll, for example. Why not expand these limits to everything, thus truly unifying ability adjustments? A smaller range of ability modifiers that excludes negatives means doing less maths, a larger design space, and fewer special cases.<br />
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<b>I propose the following modifiers</b>, and will use them in my next game:<br />
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<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Score</th>
<th>Mod</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3-12</td>
<td>+0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13-15</td>
<td>+1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16-18</td>
<td>+2</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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Essentially, it's the B/X range but with negatives completely removed, and +3 squished into +2. You still have some characters (21.3%) who are very good at a given thing, and a few (4.6%) who are exceptional at it. The rest (74.1%) are just average. And that's okay. Now, your base Bushcraft (or whatever) chance will be either 1-in-6, 2-in-6, or 3-in-6. No special stipulations.<br />
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By the way: in the oft-referenced <a href="http://cyclopeatron.blogspot.com/2010/03/gary-gygaxs-whitebox-od-house-rules.html">late Gygaxian houserules for OD&D</a>,
abilities modify things by +1
or not at all. And they modify very few select things. Constitution of
15 or more gives +1 HP per HD, and so on. In discussions of these rules
it is often pointed out that they were made
for convention games, and therefore do not represent how Gygax ran the
game at home. It is true that many of the changes there improve PC
survivability - which makes sense when running a quick convention game.
However, the streamlining and restricting the effect of abilities does
not necessarily improve PC
capability - and in fact set a lower ceiling for it than those in B/X
and
AD&D. I'm not going to say "if it's good enough for Gygax...", I'm just including it for completeness and to show that it's okay to do things differently to B/X - as long as compatibility is preserved. Compatibility must <i>always </i>be preserved.<br />
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<br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-35109027156857754432018-09-01T13:55:00.000-07:002018-09-01T15:38:54.934-07:00Simple OSR Thief skills on a d20<b>Observation 1</b>: <span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the Thief skills in B/X D&D improve in increments of 5%, which makes using a percentile die rather pointless. You can take the percentile (and x-in-6) Thief skills table, convert all the values onto a d20 target number, and it looks like this (TN rounded up):</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Level</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Climb Sheer</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Surfaces</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Find/Remove</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Traps</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hear</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Noise</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hide In</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Shadows</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Move</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Silently</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pick</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Locks</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pick</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pockets</span></span></b></div>
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</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">10</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">16</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">14</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">15</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">14</span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">4</span></span></b></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">15</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">10</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">15</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">13</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">14</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">13</span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">5</span></span></b></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">14</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">10</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">14</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">12</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">13</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">12</span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">6</span></span></b></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">12</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">10</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">13</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">11</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">11</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">11</span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></span></b></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">10</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">11</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9</span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">8</span></span></b></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">8</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9</span></span></b></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">6</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">12</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">0</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">13</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">0</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">14</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">4</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">0</span></span></div>
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<b>Observation 2: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">From this table it is easy to see that most of the skills - <i>Find/Remove Traps</i>, <i>Hide in Shadows</i>, <i>Move Silently</i>, <i>Pick Locks</i> and <i>Pick Pockets</i> - are always within a band of 2 points of each other. Generally, they start at 16-18, improve 1 point per level, before accelerating to a rate of 2 points per level starting at 5th or 6th level. These could very easily be collapsed into one chance without losing much precision - let’s say into the middle chance, <i>Pick Locks</i>, a 17.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the remaining two skills, <i>Hear Noise</i> is one that many tables including mine (and some retroclone rulesets) ignore, simply letting players succeed to listen if they spend a bit of time, so it can be ignored here. <i>Climb Sheer Walls</i> is a bit of a tricky one. It’s the only one that starts at a high chance of success, 87%, and improves by one percentage point per level, so it ill fits non-percentile models. However, there is precedent in the OSR of merging <i>Climb </i>into a more “unified” skill system, in LotFP, where <i>Climb </i>improves in steps of the same size as other skills. If Specialists put all their points at 1st level towards <i>Climb</i>, they end up with chances quite similar to the ones in B/X - good chances in climbing (5/6), terrible chances of doing anything else (1/6).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s assume that in our modern mindset we want a resolution mechanic that can be applied not just to Thieves, but all classes, while still retaining Thief superiority. Naturally, we achieve that by treating all other characters as zeroth level Thieves. So, ignoring <i>Climb </i>for a moment, we choose a 17 as our target number at 1st level, increasing by one each level. In other words, to succeed at a Thief skill, you must roll d20 + Thief level for a result of 18 or higher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hell, why not call it a nice round easy-to-remember 15, and give Thieves a little boost? The B/X Thief is <a href="https://mutantsmagic.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/acks-house-rule-thievery-skills/">commonly</a> <a href="http://bxblackrazor.blogspot.com/2018/05/incentivizing-thief-skills-part-1.html">seen</a> <a href="https://doomslakers.blogspot.com/2016/12/thieves.html">as</a> too <a href="https://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-revised-thief-class-for-bx-or-ll.html">inefficient</a>, and in fact AD&D boosts many of the thieving chances by 10%. Now, doing this does improve all characters’ odds from the default 16.6% of LotFP to 30%. But, especially these days, most OSR play takes place in the low levels. I’m okay with letting characters do a bit more. (For comparison, the Mutants & Magic proposal linked above lets 1st-level Thieves succeed on most things on a 12-14+.) Incidentally, choosing 15 as the target number, the new chances start to fall behind the B/X Thief's at 8th-9th level.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Most LotFP campaigns feature lower level characters, and modern campaigns do not last long enough to build characters to higher levels. ... providing characters more possibilities at lower level and decreasing the importance of gaining levels is important." </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- James Raggi, "Playtest Notes" in Eldritch Cock</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now that we’ve moved all skills to this mechanic, the obvious next step is other “common activities” with X-in-6 odds like Foraging, which LotFP turns into the <i>Bushcraft </i>skill, and Open Doors, which is not a skill but an X-in-6 chance modified by Strength. <i>Open Doors</i> should certainly be modified by Strength in our new system too. One benefit of moving to the d20 is that if you want ability scores to affect the odds of skills, you can, simply by adding the ability modifier to the roll. Wisdom would be used for <i>Bushcraft</i>, Dexterity for <i>Stealth</i>, Intelligence for <i>Tinker</i>, and so on. The modifiers have a bit of an impact but do not overflow the die size. Also, we are now rolling high (like all other rolls), instead of rolling low on a d6 or percentile, if you care about that sort of unification/elegance nonsense. (I don't think the d6 is bad at all, personally, in fact I really like how chunky the increments feel.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, let’s get suspiciously modern and use the term “proficiency” for adding Thief levels to the roll. Thieves shall have proficiency in <i>Stealth</i>, <i>Climb</i>, and <i>Tinker</i>. If we take a leaf from LotFP’s increasing demihuman skills, then Dwarves would have proficiency with <i>Architecture</i>, Elves with <i>Search</i>, and Halflings with <i>Bushcraft </i>(and also have a +10 to hide in the wilderness). I would also probably give Fighters proficiency in <i>Open Doors</i>, because why not? They’re likely to be the most physical type.</span><br />
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A summary of the skill system</h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All activities and skills (Climbing Sheer Walls, Finding Traps, Removing Traps, Hearing Noise, Hiding in Shadows, Moving Silently, Opening Locks, Picking Pockets, Forcing Open Doors) are rolled on a d20. The appropriate ability modifier is added, as well as Thief level if the activity is thiefy. A result of 15+ is a success.</span><br />
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<b>Skills/activities:</b><br />
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<li>Architecture: INT, +Dwarf level</li>
<li>Bushcraft: WIS, +Halfling level</li>
<li>Climb: STR, +Thief level</li>
<li>Languages, Medicine: INT</li>
<li>Open Doors: STR, +Fighter level</li>
<li>Search: INT, +Elf level</li>
<li>Stealth, Sleight of Hand: DEX, +Thief level (these skills can be rolled into one)</li>
<li>Tinker: INT, +Thief level</li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(Sneak attack is no longer a skill, but a simple 2x multiplier, possibly increasing with Thief level.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now that all Thief activities progress the same, you can combine those that use the same ability, i.e. Stealth and Sleight of Hand. If you see Tinker (Pick/Remove Traps) as an activity requiring more dexterity than intelligence, then that can be merged in too for a general "Thievery" skill. As an extension of the system, you could have character backgrounds that give you background skills granting a +2 bonus to certain activities.</span><br />
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Pros & Cons</h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So what’s the score? We have made abilities slightly more important, which depending on your taste may be a good thing or a bad thing (but actually less important compared to roll-under ability checks). We now have a Thief and not a Specialist - we’ve removed “builds”, option paralysis, customization - which again you may see as either good or bad. We've made Thieves decent at everything, but far worse at climbing (I dunno, give them a +10 to climb or something if you want). As a positive, we’ve reduced the space taken up by skills on the character sheet, since you no longer need to list the individual skill levels, only whether you’re proficient in them - adding your level to the roll is easy enough. And there's no need to print a Thief skills table in the rulebook anymore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, I see some serious risks in going in this direction. Those risks are psychological shifts that may happen in dungeon masters when moving from a “X in Y” chance to a target number which has treacherous resemblance to the modern “d20 + proficiency vs. difficulty class” mechanic of 5e. The danger is that DMs will start to see the fixed target number of 15 as a "default DC" that they will begin to carelessly modify. They may be tempted to do this where they would not have been in a d6 skill system. LotFP's rules only mention modification of the chances in two places: opening giant stone doors, and attempting to forage in different terrains such as the desert. Modifying the target numbers too often may give rise to a treadmill where characters get more competent but DMs constantly raise the obstacles in response. Because... for some reason a locked chest in a high-level dungeon would have a higher DC to open? I am generally against that, and it should be used very sparingly, as LotFP does. Just let players know their chances of success, and let characters feel competent! This psychological risk of treadmills could perhaps be mitigated by pre-applying the modifiers and listing the naked die result required on the character sheet, as saving throws are handled, though that would take up a bit more space on the sheet and require updating every level.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The other risk is that it will tempt DMs to call for knowledge rolls, and perception rolls. Those are harmful too, but the explanation why is a subject for another blog.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally, I'd like to say that I'm not under the impression any of this is an original idea. The Thief seems to be one of those topics of eternal discussion. In fact I'm almost certain there are already several blogposts with same idea, but Google failed to find me any so I'm barfing my notes on here. </span></span>Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-64869750546247006352018-08-29T06:39:00.001-07:002018-08-29T08:00:37.819-07:00D&D Without Damage DiceA <a href="https://plus.google.com/+KenBaumann/posts/bGDZ6KzqofD">contest on G+</a> to come up with a new way to speed up combat in D&D caught my interest, two responses in particular.<br />
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The first was Cavegirl’s <a href="http://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/2018/03/one-roll-fights.html">one roll fights</a>. It reminds me of the War Machine mechanic from Rules Cyclopedia, and really drives home the idea that battle is a risky proposition that you should not undertake without heavily stacking the odds first. Personally, if I were to hack it, I might turn it into two rolls instead. Players could see the result of the first roll, and then get a chance to affect their fates with spells and such, or simply run away. Then, winning two rolls would mean an overwhelming victory, winning only one roll a victory at a cost, and losing both rolls an escape-or-die situation.<br />
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The second interesting idea in the thread was replacing HP with HD, that is, you can take a number of hits equal to your number of hit dice. One hit from any weapon is... one hit. There would be no damage rolls, which certainly should speed up the game and reduce calculations and bookkeeping... I couldn’t stop thinking about this idea. So I grabbed my trusty spreadsheets and tried to hash it out in detail.<br />
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Note that this is not playtested yet, just theorycrafting so far. I would quite like to playtest this at some point if I can iron out some of the issues, but that may require additional hacking of ability scores.<br />
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Working out the number of hits </h3>
First, let’s look at how many hits a PC can take under current rules (using the gold standard of B/X). On average, a 1st level Fighter, having d8 HP can take 1.29 hits from a d6 weapon before going down. Magic-Users can take 0.71 hits, and clerics 1 hit. These averages increase linearly by level.<br />
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Here’s how many d6 hits a B/X character can take on average under the default rules, rounded up.<br />
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So that is the rough guide we should look at when designing this new damage-roll-less system, in order to approximate the same level of PC survivability. Throughout this article, I will refer to these new survivability points as Health, to avoid confusion with the normal Hit Points. Instead of damage, attacks will deal Wounds. Taking one Wound is the same as losing one Health. A d6 of old HP damage translates to one Wound in the new system.<br />
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So why are we looking at d6 damage? d8 damage, after all, is quite common for a one-handed weapon of war - there’s not much reason for a Fighter to use a handaxe instead of a battleaxe. But remember that variable weapon damage is an optional rule in B/X. We are looking at the d6 because that’s how much damage all weapons originally did. As for monster damage, looking quickly through the list, the d6 seems to be most common die, although there are a lot of d8s (and “as weapon”) too.<br />
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We are faced with a choice of two options for this new system. Either we base player Health off the d6, which is in line with non-variable weapon damage. This makes monsters die more easily (29% more), since we’re pretending they used a d6 hit die before when in actuality it was a d8 (well, at least after variable weapon damage was introduced - before that it was a d6). The other option is to base everything off the d8, which makes everyone about equal in relation to B/X, but greatly boosts d4 weapons and smaller. Perhaps we should err in favour of the players here.<br />
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So, we have all weapons dealing 1 Wound on a hit, and monsters having Health equal to number of HD. The straightforward way to work out player health would be to use that d6 table above straight. Essentially, players would have 1 Health per d6 (3.5) hit points, rounded up. Fighters would start with 2 Health, while Clerics and Magic-Users would start with 1 Health. <br />
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However, looking at only averages results in a very poor fit for low levels. While it works out to the same results on a high number of repetitions, at low levels repetitions are low and you’re cheating players out of a lot of chances to survive. For example, when taking a hit from a d6 weapon, a 1st level cleric (d6 HP) has a 42% chance of surviving. Even a Magic-User has a 25% chance of surviving, while the Fighter has 56%. Generally, you have slightly worse than even odds to survive a weapon with a damage die equal to your hit die at 1st level (because a tied roll still brings you to zero). See the chart below.<br />
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Apparently, <a href="http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/540/540395p3.html">the original reason for the creation of the granular hit point system in Arneson's games</a> in lieu of the "one hit = one kill" system from Chainmail is that players didn't like it when their characters died too suddenly:<br />
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<i>"It meant that players had a chance to live longer and do more. ... They didn't care if they could kill a monster in one blow, but they didn't want the monster to kill them in one blow."</i></blockquote>
(So, it might be that we're moving backwards with this experiment and there are very good reasons damage rolls are standard... but let's ignore all that for now.)<br />
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The simplest solution to the “level 1 problem” would be to have all classes start at their Health values of level 2. They would then not gain an additional Health at 2nd level, but follow the progression according to the above table thereon.<br />
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However, since we will have to make a whole new Health table anyway, this is a good opportunity to tweak the progression. We can use an entirely new equation, unshackled from the idea of one die size and one die per level. This way, we know where our numbers are coming from, and we’re not just blindly reimplementing artifacts that arose from the restrictions of the original system (i.e. the shapes of dice that were available to the original designers) while compounding them with new restrictions. And gaining 2nd level is the first time players get to experience leveling up, so it should feel like something! So, here’s an alternate progression you can use, based on a linear factor multiplied by level.<br />
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Alternate progression</h3>
Health = 1+YxLvl, rounded up. Y factor: M-Us 0.55, Clerics 0.82, Fighters 1.12. These progressions follow the original progressions the closest at mid-levels. They start out better at low levels, and fall off at high levels.<br />
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<b>Comparing survivability with the old HP system</b></h3>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-8cd4254c-7fff-c8a1-606a-867ab48ec2d9" style="font-weight: normal;">Fighter:</b><br />
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Cleric:
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnm_RuA7kzqSK8H-FZDm_iRUp0DdizYbbRtixdJFpZ4aNndgAvbxuSP4MXuIUR-BS4k6HCPdb7cQIGPRgOpjA1ePds_YpUc11QkKWU_bOcwsB7DQAj5JaQH7f2aQtK62EL3OXIPdYms7A/s1600/CLE+new+Health.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="565" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnm_RuA7kzqSK8H-FZDm_iRUp0DdizYbbRtixdJFpZ4aNndgAvbxuSP4MXuIUR-BS4k6HCPdb7cQIGPRgOpjA1ePds_YpUc11QkKWU_bOcwsB7DQAj5JaQH7f2aQtK62EL3OXIPdYms7A/s1600/CLE+new+Health.png" /></a><b id="docs-internal-guid-8cd4254c-7fff-c8a1-606a-867ab48ec2d9" style="font-weight: normal;">
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-8cd4254c-7fff-c8a1-606a-867ab48ec2d9" style="font-weight: normal;">Magic-User:</b><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaj2oOpjdnpg0q6ESd-soKIxlQM5E2p8qFELTuEn8zuUCpF3zqIvR2l2pNfQn_q3-8rGe8dDpk8A7l_47XkkofKw1S76Aqf1auAqZmYZCDh5ouTq2BamfTL0zp72Vgz8wvlAimCSMlu_U/s1600/MU+new+Health.png" /><br />
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I think it looks quite good. A bit more survivability at low levels is not a terrible thing, in my opinion. Some interesting artifacts: Magic-Users do not gain any Health on levels 3, 5, 7 and 9, when they gain powerful new spell levels. Between levels 5 and 6, which is when Clerics suddenly gain two new spell levels in B/X (though not in Labyrinth Lord), they do not gain any Health. There is also a remarkable resemblance to the <a href="http://elthosrpg.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-od-part-9.html">hit dice progression from the OD&D</a> (before the Greyhawk supplement), where every class (and monstes) had a d6 hit die but gained them at different rates - Fighting-Men gained a die per level, Clerics gained one on almost every level, and Magic-Users gained one every other level.<br />
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<h3>
Constitution modifiers</h3>
Now that we have our Health progression, we simply need to modify by Constitution. We can say that each +4 HP from Constitution (round up) is about equivalent to one additional hit die (and, consequently, Health). Thus, a +1 modifier should grant an additional Health every 4 levels, a +2 grants an additional Health every two levels, and so on. A +2 modifier should grant an additional Health every two out of three levels. This means that for a max level Cleric the gain from Constitution is actually slightly lower than the original HP system (1.77x vs. 1.86x). Once again, this formula improves things for players at low levels but makes it slightly tougher at high levels.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Constitution Modifier / Health Adjustment</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Lvl</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+3</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+2</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+3</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">4</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+3</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">5</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-4</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+4</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">6</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-5</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+5</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-6</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-4</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+4</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+6</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">8</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-6</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-4</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+2</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+4</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+6</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-7</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-5</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+5</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+7</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">10</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-8</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-5</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+5</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+8</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">11</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-9</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-6</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+6</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+9</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">12</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-9</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-6</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+3</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+6</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+9</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">13</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-10</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-7</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-4</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+0</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+4</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+7</span></div>
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The downside is that on each level up, players will have to reference both their class’s Health chart and the Constitution Health adjustment chart and sum the values. Then, because they progress at different rates, it is actually possible for them to lose Health on level up with a -1 or -2 modifier. That's obviously a huge flaw in these steps. So there needs to be some stipulation that your maximum Health can never decrease on level up. It gets rather messy and inelegant.<br />
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Constitution is the biggest obstacle I currently see to the new system. All this gives me half a mind to just get rid of the -3/+3 modifier range and have them go from -2/+2. Abilities shouldn’t matter overmuch, after all. Alternatively, one could have reduced Health gains from Constitution (and penalties which never overtake Health progression) and make Constitution important for other things, like dying/bleeding out.<br />
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<h3>
Monsters and spells</h3>
Monsters will have one Health per HD. Thus a PC hitting a goblin or skeleton always kills it, no damage roll required. Functionally, this makes them similar to the famous Minions from 4th edition. Monsters with a plus on their HD will be treated as one HD higher for purposes of Health.<br />
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All sources of damage do one Wound for each damage die (d4 to d12). Each +4 counts as one additional die. For example, a trap that does 4+2d4 damage will deal three Wounds, and an attack that does 1d10+1 damage will deal one Wound. Spells which do half damage on a successful save will only do half Wounds. For example, a fireball spell has 8 damage dice so it will do 8 Wounds on a failed save, or 4 Wounds on a successful save.<br />
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The one exception is when halving the damage dice (e.g. due to resistances) would leave half a damage die, or when an attack would deal damage in an odd number of d3s. These are called “half-dice”. A half-die will have a 50% chance of doing no Wounds and a 50% of doing one Wound. For example, an attack that dealt 3d3 damage will now deal one Wound, and have a 50% chance of dealing a second Wound. Or, you hit a creature with a torch for 1d4 fire damage, which would usually be 1 Wound, but if the creature is resistant to fire, you only have 50% odds of dealing a Wound on a successful hit. On-hit effects are still applied regardless of damage. For example, a ghoul’s claw is d3+paralysis, so the paralysis is applied on every hit, even though damage is only applied 50% of the time.<br />
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(Also, to prevent everyone just using torches as weapons instead of swords, you may want to give them a reduced damage chance too, or say they’re only an effective weapon vs. specific enemies such as trolls and mummies).<br />
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<h3>
Weapons</h3>
What about two-handed weapons? Differentiating them will be dealt entirely with Fighter abilities. When using shields, Fighters can sunder them to negate damage. When using two-handed melee weapons, Fighters can attack again each time they score a kill. Greatweapons might also be allowed to overcome the slashing/piercing resistance of skeletons due to their large mass. Additionally, Fighters will deal an additional Wound on a natural 20.<br />
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All this leaves crossbows in a somewhat strange position - they shoot more slowly but deal the same damage as everything else. I may reinstate the armor piercing from LotFP there. Crossbows will fire every other round and pierce 2 AC for light crossbows or 4 AC heavy crossbows. <br />
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Unarmed fighting: If an attack roll with an unarmed strike succeeds, players need to roll to see if it deals a Wound. Since unarmed strikes had a d2 damage die before, their odds of dealing a Wound are now 2 in 6, plus 1 in 6 for each point of Strength modifier. Perceptive players will notice that this is the same chance as Open Doors rolls in B/X - perhaps we can rename Open Doors to “Smash” and use it for both. We could even use this chance for improvised weapons (e.g. torches) and treat them the same as unarmed strikes.<br />
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<h3>
To Recap</h3>
<ul>
<li>Health will replace HP. Player characters gain Health according to new class tables. Monsters will have one Health per HD, plus one Health if they have any pluses on their HD.</li>
<li>Damage is not rolled, instead damage sources will deal one Wound per die of damage, plus one Wound for every 4 fixed damage. </li>
<li>d3 damage sources and odd dice halved due to resistance will have a 3-in-6 chance of dealing one Wound. </li>
<li>Open Doors chance equals the chance to deal damage on a hit using an unarmed strike or improvised weapon. </li>
<li>Effects that refer to the target’s Hit Dice (such as Sleep) will use levels instead when the target is a PC. </li>
</ul>
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<h3>
Advantages: </h3>
<ul>
<li>No rolling monster HP.</li>
<li>Less tracking/HP maths on the fly - Health values are in the single digits for most of the game. </li>
<li>No rolling damage. </li>
<li>Fewer dice required (players only need d20 and d6). </li>
<li>Increased survivability at level 1. (YMMV whether this is a good thing.) </li>
<li>Doesn’t break compatibility with existing material. </li>
</ul>
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Disadvantages: </h3>
<ul>
<li>Less granular damage modifications: STR, magic weapons…</li>
<li>Smaller design space for abilities. </li>
<li>Some players may find less rolling less fun. </li>
<li>Things become more static and predictable. It’s easier for players to tell when they should retreat. Players usually want to retreat when they have 1 HP, but feel like they have a decent chance at 4 HP.</li>
<li>Applying Constitution modifiers becomes more complex.</li>
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Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-44153338326669342912018-07-30T07:18:00.001-07:002018-07-30T08:17:08.256-07:00Presenting the Only Good Encumbrance System for 5e<i>Edit: It turns out most people just want the rules and not the editorial - If you don't want to know why you should use encumbrance and will just take my word for it, skip to the last section, or see the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QvvFj3nJaYo5MZsVzcAvQEUJQ-Htu4u6/">printable PDF of the rules here</a> and the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oE7HP-ShhQq1gmwkmHzFJOD-rnw0dRdo/">new inventory sheet here</a>.</i><br />
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<h3>
Mundane rules lead to weighty choices</h3>
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For games to really make you immerse yourself in the world, and to creatively use your tools to "attack" things that don't have statblocks, i.e. problems and obstacles, some semblance of verisimilitude is required.* Even if the mechanical representation of verisimilitude is highly abstracted and streamlined, instead of a 100% accurate simulation, then as long as they make players <i>care about the environment</i> a little bit, the rules are successful.<br />
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If characters need to eat each day, for example, they might need to <i>think </i>before charging into the vast desert. They might have to decide whether to hire a ranger, find a certain spell, eat their own mounts... That means thinking about the people, animals etc. of their environment. Do you butcher the trusty steed that has served you for the entire campaign? Do you take all the treasure, or do you carry more food and rope? Do you prepare a non-combat spell for once? Do you negotiate a truce with the monstrous humanoids for a place to eat and rest? Do you discard food or treasure to distract the enemy and escape?<br />
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Choices! <a href="http://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/32593/roleplaying-games/thought-of-the-day-meaningful-choices-in-dungeons">Choices </a>are the essence of the game. If the players are not making meaningful choices, then they're not playing, they're just chatting and listening to the DM's story. More choices per session means more play is happening. (But note, again, that they have to be MEANINGFUL choices. Anything that is not meaningful can be skipped, condensed, fast-forwarded, dealt with in a montage. If every shop has the same prices and none of the shopkeepers are my character's long lost brother, then I don't need to act out finding a shop and purchasing some lamp oil. Meaningful choices have consequences.)<br />
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Of course, the player-invented subgoals that arise from thinking of the environment as a real and organic world may veer the game off the railroad tracks. But, believe it or not, it's actually more fun that way. The game becomes more like <i>a real adventure story</i> with sidetreks and surprises, rather than a string of arena combats.<br />
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* 'Verisimilitude' instead of 'realism' so that nobody complains that dragons are not realistic.<br />
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<h3>
Mundane rules unburden the DM </h3>
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Some people believe that things concerned with verisimilitude are boring, and thus they don't need rules. But in fact, the reason that those things most of all need good rules is to prevent the implementation of verisimilitude from becoming a bore at the table. It is the game designer's job to make the player-facing procedures for tracking time, light, weight, and resources so quick and easy that they will <i>actually use them</i> and not throw them in the trash after ten minutes because it's a chore (and the benefits haven't become apparent yet). If the DM, being equipped with good rules, doesn't have to constantly make on-the-spot rulings about this or that mundane factor, then they are free to make more rulings on exciting and fantastic things. Like jumping onto flying monsters or whatever.<br />
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The game designer has to do all the hard up-front work of abstraction, making spreadsheets and playtesting to boil down mundane considerations to their essentials so that they have smooth and balanced procedures later on. The other option is for everyone to just say "fuck it" and not think about such things for a moment, run from combat to combat carrying 20 warhammers, spend limitless time on any task because they never have to eat, and so on. I'm not saying that's badwrongfun. But if the rules do their job, then you have the option of trying something different.<br />
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<h3>
Encumbrance as it exists in 5e</h3>
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Speaking of playtesting... D&D 5e has optional rules for different levels of encumbrance (PHB p. 176). I'm going to make a claim right now that those rules have never been playtested. Literally no one in the world uses those rules, but I believe that even the <i>creators </i>of the game have never attempted to use them. They're so off-kilter, I don't think anyone has even put them into a spreadsheet to check out how the numbers turn out... But I have done just that. You will be enraptured to know that a Paladin's starting equipment of 127 lbs. puts them well into lightly encumbered status, and at 70% of the way into heavily encumbered. That's a 10' speed reduction, BEFORE picking up any loot. And that's assuming an 18 Strength, which is the highest possible for a starting character. So I'm going to say the numbers were asspulled and never checked, because nobody cared. Which makes you wonder why they bothered to print a "weight" column onto the item list.<br />
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Luckily, I have solved this problem by creating <i>actually good rules for encumbrance </i>that are based on abstract slots - one item per slot, most of the time. I even did the spreadsheet calculations for you: using these rules, characters start only 40-70% of the way to lightly encumbered (instead of potentially 140-190% as using the misguided rules from the Player's Handbook). There have been similar slot- or stone-based systems in other games, and some <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?426148-5e-Inventory-Tracking-Sheet-(with-Simplified-Encumbrance)">fan-made ones for 5e</a>, but the balance maths on those was rather off and they were still far more detailed than necessary. These rules, however, are<i> complete and perfectly balanced</i>. They are the only encumbrance rules you will ever need for 5e. They take even less time than tracking your spell slots, so you no longer have an excuse to ignore encumbrance, plus they fit on one single page. I even included a ready-made inventory sheet which doubles as a cheat sheet for the rules. You're welcome.<br />
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Read the full rules below or in a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QvvFj3nJaYo5MZsVzcAvQEUJQ-Htu4u6/">printable one-page PDF here</a>. See the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oE7HP-ShhQq1gmwkmHzFJOD-rnw0dRdo/">PDF of the inventory sheet/cheat sheet here</a>.<br />
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<h2>
Variant rules for 5e: Slot-based encumbrance </h2>
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You can carry up to 10 + your Strength score in item slots without penalty. Above that limit, you are <b>lightly encumbered</b>, and your speed becomes 20’. While encumbered, racial speed modifiers have no effect, and you cannot benefit from any passive bonus to speed such as Unarmored Movement, although you can still benefit from temporary effects such as spells.<br />
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If carrying more than 20 + their Strength score, you are <b>heavily encumbered</b>, decreasing your speed further to 10’, and giving you disadvantage on attack rolls, Dexterity and Strength saving throws, and all physical ability checks.<br />
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If you are carrying more than 30 + your Strength score, you are <b>over-encumbered</b>, and your speed becomes 0'.<br />
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The first 10 item slots in your list, plus up to 100 coins or gems, are considered to be on your belt, pockets, or otherwise easily available. The rest are in your backpack, and cannot be retrieved without using an action to dig through the backpack. <br />
<ul>
<li>Normal items take up one slot: one-handed weapons, shields, arcane foci, lanterns, waterskins, flasks of oil, bedrolls, hunting traps, quivers (with up to 20 ammunition), etc.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Light items can be bundled up to 5 items in one slot: torches, rations, small vials, daggers, light hammers, handaxes.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Coins and gems can be bundled up to 100 in one slot.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Heavy items take up two slots: weapons with the heavy property, as well as tents, chests and ladders.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Medium armor takes up 2 slots, and heavy armor 4 slots.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Tiny items such as paper, quills, and anything that can be fit in your palm does not count towards encumbrance, nor do empty bags, nor does worn clothing, light armor or jewelry.</li>
</ul>
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For races with the Powerful Build racial trait, all
encumbrance thresholds increase by 10 slots. For larger creatures,
encumbrance thresholds increase by 10 slots for each size category above
Medium. For a creature pulling a vehicle, its load counts as 10 slots
less per each axle of the vehicle.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strength score + 31</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">0’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes</span></div>
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*Normal speed depends on your race, as well as passive speed bonuses. Race and passive speed bonuses have no effect on speed while encumbered.<br />
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<br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-46221791645584971042018-07-28T13:11:00.000-07:002018-07-28T13:11:04.066-07:00Fast OSR Character Creation: d120 Bonus Tools and TrinketsHere's how you generate characters in my game. The priority is speed at the table, while still giving every character something small and unique. Nothing super involved or gonzo like alien technology or slime pheromones; almost all of the items are based on real history. The assumption is a "standard" D&D setting.<br />
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<h4>
0. Generate stats</h4>
3d6 in order, swap one pair if you want, start over if sum of modifiers is negative.<br />
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(Maybe max HP at 1st level, not quite sure yet.)<br />
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<h4>
1. Roll for starting equipment</h4>
Use the random table for starting equipment over at Sword & Scoundrel:<br />
<a href="http://swordandscoundrel.blogspot.com/2016/04/random-starting-equipment-for-bx-or.html" target="_blank">Web link</a>, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By_qh0l0ldWPT182Zl9IVTh6bWM/view" target="_blank">PDF link</a>.<br />
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2. Add bonus starting gold equal to Charisma score.</h4>
(If they don't know how good hirelings are, everyone will dump Charisma.)<br />
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<h4>
3. Roll once on the following d120 table for a useful item or memento. </h4>
Or <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cxvJD3G80BroxEhagsX9bhN2Y4dRzl2E/" target="_blank">click here</a> for a handy 1-page PDF version of the table.<br />
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(There are ~6 entries that directly deal damage, plus two entries with spell scrolls. The DM rolls for a random 1st level spell for the scrolls. #75 will also require the DM to scribble up a little map at some point.)<br />
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<h4>
4. If they want quick hirelings, roll some up.</h4>
Use the fantastic <a href="http://www.barrowmaze.com/meatshields">Meatshields hireling generator for Barrowmaze</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Cat (d4: 1 black, 2 golden tabby, 3 silver tabby, 4 white)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chicken</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">4</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rat (d3: 1 trained pet, 2-3 picked from a gutter)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">5</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Red squirrel (with collar and lead)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">6</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Magpie in cage</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Falcon, trained</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">8</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Two frogs in glass jar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bees in a glass jar (d4: 1 dead, 2-3 alive, 4 actually wasps)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">10</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Smoking pipe and 1 lb. bag of hobbit’s leaf</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">11</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Herbs, calming</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">12</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Herbs, stimulating</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">13</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Censer and incense</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">14</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Salted meat, 1 lb.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">15</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rotten meat, 1 lb.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">16</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Animal feed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">17</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Eggs x 12</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">18</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bar of soap</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">19</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Lard</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">20</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jar of honey</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">21</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jar of syrup</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">22</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bottle of milk</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">23</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bottle of vinegar</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">24</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of malted barley</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">25</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of sugar</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">26</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of carrots</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">27</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of turnips</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">28</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of seeds</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">29</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of flour</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">30</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of salt</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">31</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of sand</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">32</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of earth</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">33</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of sawdust</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">34</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of powdered chalk</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">35</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chalk pieces x 5</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">36</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chunk of coal</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">37</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chunk of ore</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">38</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Magnetic lodestone</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">39</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Scrap metal</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">40</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Brick</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">41</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Calendar staff, 1 foot </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(see image below)</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">42</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Horseshoe</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">43</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sledge hammer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">44</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Crowbar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">45</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hand drill</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">46</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pickaxe</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">47</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Shovel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">48</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Riding crop</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">49</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fishing pole</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">50</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fishing net</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">51</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Butterfly net</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">52</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Razor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">53</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Tweezers</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">54</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Tongs</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">55</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chisel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">56</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chain, 5’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">57</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Manacles</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">58</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Padlock and key</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">59</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Padlock, no key</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">60</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hunting trap</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">61</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Grappling hook</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">62</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of caltrops</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">63</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Vial of acid</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">64</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Vial of poison</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">65</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Vial of holy water</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">66</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jar of glue</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">67</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Glass vials, empty x 5</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">68</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bucket, metal</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">69</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bucket, wooden</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">70</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Glass jar, empty</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">71</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Air bladder</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">72</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Scroll case, empty</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">73</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Scroll case with divine scroll</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">74</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Scroll case with arcane scroll</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">75</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Scroll case with map</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">76</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Small bells x 5</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">77</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mirror, steel</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">78</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mirror, silver</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">79</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mirror, glass</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">80</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Makeup</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">81</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Candles x 10</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">82</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Quill, ink and parchments</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">83</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Thread, linen, 50’</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">84</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Leather strips x 5</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">85</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of wooden beads</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">86</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bag of glass beads</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">87</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Small urn, sealed</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">88</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Human(?) bone</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">89</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Shrunken head</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">90</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Severed finger</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">91</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Severed hand</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">92</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Severed nose</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">93</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Lock of hair</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">94</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Small wooden vessel of powdered mummy</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">95</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rabbit’s foot</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">96</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Shark’s tooth</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">97</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fish jawbone</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">98</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Tusk</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">99</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Dice set</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">100</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Playing cards</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">101</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chess set</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">102</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Dominoes set</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">103</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Toy, wooden</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">104</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Toy, clay</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">105</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Lute</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">106</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Small drum</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">107</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Flute</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">108</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pan pipes</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">109</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ocarina</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">110</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Whistle</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">111</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hunting horn</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">112</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gloves, heavy</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">113</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gloves, fine</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">114</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "sumana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hat, wide-brimmed</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-88780469101486106132018-07-23T04:54:00.001-07:002018-07-23T05:03:15.382-07:00Death rules for OSR games: Three Critical ConditionsI was inspired to adapt
<a href="http://methodsetmadness.blogspot.com/2015/04/death-saving-throws-quick-house-rule.html" target="_blank">Eric Diaz at Methods & Madness's nice idea</a> for a death mechanic <a href="https://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/07/death-dying-part-5-three-strikes-and.html" target="_blank">to 5e</a>. Here a version for OSR games. I think it could be a nice system that's relatively simpler than some of the other ones out there that use chits, dice pools etc.<br />
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This version is somewhat more deadly, to be more in tune with the typical OSR baseline and playstyle. Though I reckon it's less deadly than, say, LotFP's default death rules, which, in turn, are less deadly than the original "dead at 0 HP, period" rules.<br />
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Death saving throws have been replaced here with rolls under Constitution. Perhaps you prefer using saves vs. Death, or a straight 50% chance, instead.<br />
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The Weakened condition raises you from e.g. lightly encumbered to heavily encumbered, and since in LotFP chases you roll 1d20+speed, it might lead to some interesting choices.<br />
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There are no negative hit points. When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you suffer one of the following <i>critical conditions</i> of your choice that you are not already suffering from:<b> Bleeding Out</b>, <b>Weakened</b>, or <b>Knocked Out</b>. If you take any damage while at 0 hit points, you suffer another critical condition.
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<b>Bleeding Out</b>. Each round, roll under Constitution or suffer another critical condition.
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<b>Weakened.</b> You have -4 penalty on all d20 rolls and -1 penalty on all d6 skills. You count as one tier of encumbrance higher. If you cast a spell, roll under Constitution or suffer another critical condition.
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<b>Knocked Out</b>. You are unconscious. If left alone, this condition ends after 1 hour.
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<b>Death</b>. If you have all three critical conditions at the same time, you die. You also die instantly if excess damage at 0 hit points equals or exceeds your hit point maximum.
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<b>Healing at 0 hit points</b>. If an effect would restore hit points to you, you instead remove one critical condition with the following priority: first remove Bleeding Out, then Weakened, and lastly Knocked Out. You cannot gain hit points until all critical conditions have been removed.
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<br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-52592924966348272352018-07-22T11:16:00.001-07:002018-07-22T13:53:53.634-07:00Death's door part 5: Three Strikes And You’re Dead<a href="https://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/01/deaths-door-part-4-just-in-time-death.html" target="_blank"><i>Go to Part 4</i></a><br />
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Six months since I last wrestled with the <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/01/deaths-door-part-1-biggest-problem-with.html" target="_blank">death & dying</a> rules in <b>D&D 5e</b>, having played some 5e and some <b>LotFP </b>in the meantime, the time has come to start yet another 5e campaign. Which means I am once again wrestling in my mind with the death & dying rules, probably my least favourite part of 5e.<br />
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My previous attempts to <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/01/deaths-door-part-1-biggest-problem-with.html" target="_blank">solve the problem</a> are unsatisfactory, and that is even more clear looking back at them through the separation of time. To be totally honest, none of the rule variants have been playtested. Part of the reason for founding this blog was to have a place to write down these ideas for potential solutions to problems, in a cleanly edited format. This allows getting them off my mind, taking a step back to judge them and possibly getting some external feedback, and only then iterate, playtest, and iterate.<br />
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The problems with the variants that I can see are complexity, and difficulty of balancing. A good rule shouldn’t take <a href="https://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/01/deaths-door-part-2-grit-your-teeth-and.html" target="_blank">a dozen or more bullet points</a> to lay out. And the <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/01/deaths-door-part-3-dicing-with-death.html" target="_blank">knockout table</a>, while tense and fun, is impossible to balance. A random table with not only many different kinds of consequences with variable probabilities, but also with a dynamic probability that scales with the amount of damage taken? That is an equation with far too many variables.<br />
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So while I think those ideas did solve the problems I set out to solve, they didn’t satisfy the criteria of simplicity and balance. And thus, I’m attempting to solve the same problem once again. I was inspired by <a href="http://methodsetmadness.blogspot.com/2015/04/death-saving-throws-quick-house-rule.html" target="_blank">this post by Eric Diaz at Methods & Madness</a>. He suggests a system where you have three boxes to tick representing three different status effects, ticking one at a time, and a character being dead when all three boxes are ticked. However, the rules presented are undeveloped. I present my own adaptation of the idea for 5e below.<br />
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Variant death rules for 5e: Three Strikes</h2>
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When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you fall prone, lose concentration, and you must make a death saving throw (10+ is a success, 1 and 20 are not special). On a failure, you suffer one of the following conditions of your choice that you are not already suffering from: <b>bleeding out</b>, <b>weakened</b>, or <b>knocked out</b>. If you take any damage while at 0 hit points, you automatically suffer the effects of a failed death saving throw.</div>
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<i><b>Bleeding out.</b></i> You must make a death saving throw at the start of each of your turns.
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<i><b>Weakened</b></i>. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. If you cast a spell, you must make a death saving throw after casting it.
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<i><b>Knocked out</b></i>. You are <i>unconscious </i>(see PHB p. 292). This condition ends after 1 hour.
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<i><b>Death</b></i>. If you have all three conditions at the same time, you die. You also die instantly if excess damage at 0 hit points equals or exceeds your hit point maximum.
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<i><b>Healing at 0 hit points</b></i>. If an effect would heal you or otherwise stabilize you, remove one of these conditions at a time with the following priority: first bleeding out, then weakened, then knocked out. You cannot gain hit points until all of these conditions have been removed.</div>
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Rationale</h3>
You will notice the rules are relatively lenient. You get a save at 0 HP before suffering any conditions, and you only suffer one failure from taking a hit, even critical hits. This is intended, in order to solve one of the original problems in 5e: you’re unconscious <b>a lot</b> (not fun), but you almost never die (not tense). Here, those probabilities are pushed in the opposite directions.<br />
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Although you're less likely to become unconscious or start dying, it is far more difficult to stop the process in the middle of battle: instead of a single heal getting you up and running as usual, each heal now just removes one failure-tick. Emergency room-style situations where you're racing with death to resuscitate someone should happen more often now. Even after removing all ticks and bringing you to consciousness, you are at 0 hit points, so taking damage means an automatic death save failure. After all, one of the goals with these houserules was to make retreats more of a consideration, instead of every battle being one to the bitter end. Thus, these rules are more fitting for a sandboxy campaign where getting out of there and going somewhere else instead is an option. If you are playing a plot-based railroad where every encounter is mandatory, these may not work for you.<br />
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The element of player choice introduces some strategy. Do you take a hit to your combat capability and attempt to flee? Do you grit your teeth and keep fighting at full strength through the pain, but risk dying - going down in a blaze of glory to save your comrades? Or do you fall unconscious on the ground? Well, the last one of these is clearly the worst option. However, consider that different enemies behave differently. Some intelligent foes may always prioritize the greatest threat, thus leaving you alone when you’re lying motionless. Some, like zombies, may keep clawing at the closest fleshy thing. And some animals looking for a meal may just try to drag you back to their lair and avoid the other threats. A good DM should always roleplay the enemy’s tactics, and you should take that into consideration when choosing how you go down.<br />
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These houserules have not been playtested, but will be in the coming weeks. If it is found that they are too lenient and no one ever (almost) dies, the difficulty will be tuned upwards by making automatic failures more common, or by increasing the target number of death saves, or adding critical death save failures. Or maybe it would be fun if dashing while weakened would cause you to fall prone at the end of your move - a bit of risk-and-reward for chase situations? We shall see.<br />
<br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-55081791202103404332018-07-22T07:42:00.000-07:002018-07-22T10:40:52.989-07:00OSR Fighters: Combining Cleave and Extra AttackYou’re probably aware of the multi-attack abilities fighters have had over the years. There’s the “Melee attacks per round” table, where Fighters in AD&D could have 1/1, 3/2 or 2/1 attacks per round. That fractional value of 3/2 means your number of attacks alternates each round: twice in one round, then once in the next, and so on. Sure, it’s not hard to understand - but it’s still an additional thing to remember in the heat of battle, which I don’t want in my game. Newer editions call this Extra Attack, but omit the fractions.<br />
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Then there’s the “one attack per level against creatures with one/less than one hit die”, originating from Heroes in Chainmail having the fighting ability of four men. This rule is sometimes called "cleave". The same ability is also pointed at underneath the “Melee attacks per round” table in AD&D, referring mysteriously to the COMBAT section, which offers no explanation on the matter.<br />
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A rather popular rule for “cleaving” weak foes that doesn’t require you to track the number of attacks is what I have just decided to call “If They’re Slain, Swing Again”. It grants a free attack each time you slay an enemy, continuing as long as you either fail to score a kill or there are no more enemies within reach. The less hit dice the opponents have, the more likely you are to get multiple attacks off.<br />
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Here is yet another option I came up with which combines aspects of both extra attacks and cleaves:<br />
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Ability: Fighter's Focus</h2>
<big>If you hit an enemy with an attack on your turn, you can attack one more time. If this second attack is a miss or a non-killing blow, your turn then ends. However, if it is a killing blow, you can attack again, and keep attacking as long as you keep landing killing blows, or until there are no more targets within range.</big>
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The condition of Fighter's Focus means that you get a sort-of-an-extra-attack, but not always - only when the first blow lands. It’s like gaining momentum in the melee. Then on the second blow, you really get into the zone and potentially start mowing everything down. Perhaps you could give these two "modes" of focus different names to help players remember how they work. (If I have to draw a flowchart, or nobody remembers how it works, then it must be a bad rule.) It also means that you don't need to keep track your alternating rounds like in AD&D.<br />
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Obviously, the second stage of focus still works best against low-HD creatures, while the first part gives more of an advantage against mushy enemies with poor AC. Thus it will sometimes give you an edge against high-HD creatures, too. All in all, the ability should end up being less powerful than straight up giving Fighters two attacks, but more powerful than the “If They’re Slain, Swing Again” rule by itself. It’s somewhere in between.<br />
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I’ve been exploring these different options recently since I’m looking to change some rules for the next game I run. Specifically, breaking from LotFP, I want to give non-Fighters the increasing to-hit that they get in B/X. But I still want Dwarves and Elves (and Paladins etc. that I may add) to have the improved combat options, as they do in LotFP, and have no equipment restrictions. So with Fighters losing their only niche, what do you give them so they don’t fall behind? Well, more attacks, of course.<br />
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<br />Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-22707107143012547162018-02-20T09:34:00.000-08:002018-07-22T07:44:45.263-07:00LotFP Hybrid Classes Expanded 2: Shamans and Sages<i><a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/02/lotfp-hybrid-classes-expanded-pseudo.html">Go to part 1</a>. We continue on the track started by Jackson Malloy's <a href="https://swordandscoundrel.blogspot.com/2015/07/lotfp-multiclassinghybrids.html">post about hybrid classes at Sword and Scoundrel</a>. This is a separate post because it's a bit more out there than the first, and is hungrily eyeing a couple sacred cows.</i><br />
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Malloy's system starts with the axiom that Clerics and Magic-Users cannot be combined. This seems reasonable. After all, they are of opposite alignments, and have their own niches; traditionally, wizards have not been granted the ability to heal as a check to their power (as well as for thematic reasons).<br />
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But... what would happen if we broke those rules? Apparently, James Raggi's recent playtest of the next version of LotFP also <a href="https://dragonsgonnadrag.blogspot.com/2016/03/initial-thoughts-on-lotfp-playtest.html">combined Clerics and Magic-Users</a> into one class, or at least gave Cleric spells to the Magic-User. What if we went further with the hybrid classes and included a Cleric-MU-hybrid - or even a tri-class-hybrid, a Cleric-MU-Specialist?<br />
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With our XP formula from <a href="http://homebrewhomunculus.blogspot.com/2018/02/lotfp-hybrid-classes-expanded-pseudo.html">part 1</a>, it would take the Cleric-MU - let's call it a Shaman - 3,000 XP to reach second level, and the Cleric-MU-Specialist - let's call it a Sage - 3,700 XP. For spellcasting, they are half a Cleric, and half a Magic-User, but separately, so their caster level is halved, and they know spells as a caster of half their level. But when combining two casters, it makes more sense to combine the spell slots into one pool, so that they start with spell slots at lvl 1<i>,</i> but perhaps still have to divide their prepared spells between the two lists. For some reason, I'm attracted to the idea of forcing the Shaman to strike a balance between Cleric and Magic-User spells. (That might be just due to the <a href="http://warhammerfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Hammerwiki:Shaman#Specialty">Goblin Shaman class in Warhammer Online</a>, who had a charge-up meter that empowered their their healing magic when they cast damage spells, and vice versa.)<br />
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The Shaman has a d6 hit die. But our Sage is clearly a scholarly type, so let's lower its hit die to d4 and limit their skill selection to non-movement skills. In return, we'll reduce its XP costs to 3,000, since the only thing it now has over the Shaman is knowing a bit more about secret doors and languages.<br />
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Base XP: 3,000.<br />
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You have spell slots equal to a Magic-User of your level. You can cast both Magic-User and Cleric spells, and you are considered a caster of half your character level (minimum of 1). However, when you prepare spells, half of the spells for each level must be Cleric spells, and the other half Magic-User spells. If you have an odd number of spell slots for a given level, you can choose whether to prepare a Magic-User or Cleric spell in the last slot. For example, if you have three 1st-level spell slots, you can prepare one Cleric and two Magic-User spells of 1st level, or two and one.<br />
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You can not cast spells if you are more than Heavily encumbered. Like an Elf, you must have one hand free (or clutching a magical focus) to cast spells.<br />
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Sage </h2>
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Saves: as Magic-User<br />
Base XP: 3,000.<br />
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You have spell slots equal to a Magic-User of your level. You can cast both magic-user and Cleric spells, and you are considered a caster of half your character level (minimum of 1). <br />
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You can not cast spells if you are more than Lightly encumbered. Like a Magic-User, you must have both hands free (or clutching a magical focus) to cast spells.<br />
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Additionally, you have two skill points at 1st level, and gain one more skill point each time you level up. These skill points cannot be used for movement-based skills (Climb, Sleight of Hand, Sneak Attack, Stealth, Tinker), but only mental ones (Architecture, Bushcraft, Languages, Search, and any other ones you may have in your game such as Medicine or Arcana).<br />
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Learning Spells</h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigw7Vxr9SRpHojJVFq0UxsXyw403XHNPvYm2HdNy9VDRzk1ZnmKYkqoGPU4YZ5qCx4CHSnJbWy2EUSVU7nVnbnPF-j8dlCyF9Wlv0WdYWOsC0c1U1LWbpprvSBF741loyHVgSAnR0x89M/s1600/Conrad_von_Soest%252C_%2527Brillenapostel%2527_%25281403%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="323" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigw7Vxr9SRpHojJVFq0UxsXyw403XHNPvYm2HdNy9VDRzk1ZnmKYkqoGPU4YZ5qCx4CHSnJbWy2EUSVU7nVnbnPF-j8dlCyF9Wlv0WdYWOsC0c1U1LWbpprvSBF741loyHVgSAnR0x89M/s320/Conrad_von_Soest%252C_%2527Brillenapostel%2527_%25281403%2529.jpg" width="274" /></a>In LotFP, Magic-Users learn one random spell of a level of their choice on level-up, and can add spells from scrolls and spellbooks they find. They start with Read Magic and three random spells. Clerics learn all Cleric spells automatically. So, how do we reconcile this for our hybrids? Here is a fine opportunity to add some flavour and differentiate these classes. If you wanted to introduce new mechanics or subsystems, this would be an appropriate place, since it's not something that has to be referenced in every session.<br />
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For example, the Shaman might not use a spellbook, instead starting with two random spells from each spell list, learn one spell <i>from each spell list</i> on level-up (of a level of the player's choice), and be unable to transcribe spells. You could add a mechanic for the Shaman to influence the choice of spells learned, or a <a href="http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/shaman-class.html">mini-game</a> - as long as it's something that is quick to resolve since it is only engaging a single player!<br />
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The Sage should use a spellbook, of course. They could start with Read Magic, one random Magic-User spell (or Identify) and two random Cleric spells. They would learn one random spell on level up from a spell list and level of their choice, and in addition be able to transcribe Cleric spells (from scrolls) as well as Magic-User spells into their spellbook.<br />
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This results in two classes that have more versatility than either of the core casters, through being able to either learn or transcribe a greater number or spells, while casting them at a lower power, in addition to the increased XP costs.<br />
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If you decide to use hybrid classes at your table, you may not want to include every one, what with so many redundant spellcasters. Decide based on the flavour you're going for. The Shaman and Sage step on some toes, so you might want to pick only one of them, depending on whether the written or spoken word is more improtant in your setting. Personally, I might only include the Ranger, Paladin, Sage and possibly Assassin for my current medieval setting. For a "Nordic barbarians" vibe, I'd go with the Ranger and Shaman instead. What do you think?Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-37699600927357521542018-02-17T04:17:00.000-08:002018-02-17T06:25:17.909-08:00Simple jousting rules for 5e<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><b> Attacks. </b></i>Each jouster wields a shield (+2 AC if proficient) and a lance (1d12, use Strength for attack and damage rolls). On each <b>pass</b>, each jouster rolls an attack with their lance.<br />
<i><b> Hits. </b></i>If a jouster is hit, they must make a <b>brace check</b> (see below) with a DC equal to the damage taken. On a failed check, they are <i>unhorsed </i>and lose the joust. <br />
<i><b> Brace check. </b></i>A brace check is a Strength (Animal Handling) check. <br />
<i><b> Initiative.</b></i> Attacks happen simultaneously, and it is possible for two jousters to unhorse each other. <br />
<i><b> Rules of the match.</b></i> A jousting lance is destroyed when it hits. New lances are handed out and passes are repeated until one or both participants are unhorsed. Additionally, a limit may be set for lances broken; for example, the first jouster to break three lances (score three hits) wins if neither has been unhorsed.<br />
<i><b> Passes. </b></i>On each pass, a jouster may attack normally, or choose one of the following maneuvers:<b> </b><br />
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<li><b>Aggressive:</b> +5 to attack, -5 to AC.<b> </b></li>
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<li><b>Defensive:</b> -5 to attack, +5 to AC.</li>
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<li><b>Braced:</b> -5 to attack, +5 to Animal Handling.</li>
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<li><b>High in Saddle:</b> +5 to attack, -5 to Animal Handling.</li>
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<li><b>Eyes Fixed:</b> +5 to attack. If you are hit, roll a d20. On a 1, you lose your left eye if you have it, and on a 2, you lose your right eye if you have it. On a 3-4, you gain a Horrible Scar, and on a 5-10 you gain a Minor Scar. (See the DMG p. 272 for the effects of these injuries.)</li>
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<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Attack</b></span></span></td>
<td width="18%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>AC</b></span></span></td>
<td width="21%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Animal Handling</b></span></span></td>
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<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aggressive</span></span></td>
<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">+5</span></span></td>
<td width="18%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-5</span></span></td>
<td width="21%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></td>
<td width="24%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></td>
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<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Defensive</span></span></td>
<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-5</span></span></td>
<td width="18%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">+5</span></span></td>
<td width="21%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></td>
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<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Braced</span></span></td>
<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-5</span></span></td>
<td width="18%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></td>
<td width="21%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">+5</span></span></td>
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<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">High in Saddle</span></span></td>
<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">+</span></span>5</span></span></td>
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<td width="21%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span>5</span></span></td>
<td width="24%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></td>
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<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eyes Fixed</span></span></td>
<td width="19%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">+5</span></span></td>
<td width="18%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></td>
<td width="21%"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></td>
<td width="24%"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">See above</span></span></td>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">King Henri II of France was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_France#Death">mortally wounded</a> by a splintered lance in the eye from the hand of Gabriel Montgomery, the captain of his own guard, in a jousting match in 1559.</td></tr>
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Optional rules </h3>
<i><b>Reading opponents.</b></i> When a PC is jousting against an NPC opponent, if you wish, you may allow the PC to attempt to make a read. First decide the NPC's maneuver for the pass, and then allow the player to make a Wisdom (Insight) check contested by the opponent's Wisdom (Animal Handling) check. If the player wins the contest, they learn which maneuver the opponent has chosen, and can then choose their own maneuver based on this information.Homebrew Homunculushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345963093533356907noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596935629076864315.post-80984825459371125012018-02-11T08:58:00.000-08:002018-07-22T07:45:17.477-07:00LotFP Hybrid Classes Expanded: Pseudo-Rangers, Paladins and Bards<b id="docs-internal-guid-a3db9390-8585-f460-3e23-54ad720e4994" style="font-weight: normal;">
</b><i>So, you want to start DMing <b>Lamentations of the Flame Princess</b>, but your players are complaining about how the system is "lacking" because there are only four classes that aren’t race-as-class. They want more options, for whatever reason. Maybe they want to play a ranger. Normally I’d tell them that a ranger is just a specialist with a bow and Bushcraft skill, or perhaps a halfling. But maybe this hypothetical player wants their ranger to be fighty. Maybe you need some shiny bait to get them hooked on the OSR. Here’s how you can trick customization-obsessed players with the appearance of breadth, while using only existing mechanics and adding no special class features.</i><br />
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Jackson Malloy at <b>Sword and Scoundrel</b> has blogged about a houserule for hybrid classes in Lamentations of the Flame Princess here: <a href="https://swordandscoundrel.blogspot.com/2015/07/lotfp-multiclassinghybrids.html">https://swordandscoundrel.blogspot.com/2015/07/lotfp-multiclassinghybrids.html</a><br />
The work here expands on those ideas, with some additions, modifications, and clarifications. If you don't already have the free rules for LotFP, grab them at <a href="https://www.rpgnow.com/product/115059/LotFP-Rules--Magic-Free-Version">RPGNow</a>, <a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/115059/LotFP-Rules--Magic-Free-Version">DriveThruRPG </a>or <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/115059/LotFP-Rules--Magic-Free-Version">DMsGuild</a>.<br />
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In short, under Malloy's system, you can combine any two of the four human classes into a hybrid class, with the exception that combining two spellcasting classes is not allowed. Picking Fighter gives you +2 attack bonus (non-increasing) and their combat options (Defensive Fighting, Press, Parry +4). Picking Specialist gives you half the amount of skill points, and you are locked to two skills you pick at the start. Picking Magic-User or Cleric gives you spellcasting as if you were a spellcaster of half your character level. Saving throws are as either one of the two classes (player chooses at the start).<br />
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While there have been some attempts to add Paladins and the like to B/X games, such as the holy character in <a href="http://basicfantasy.org/downloads/BF-Quasi-Classes-Supplement-r2.pdf">the Basic Fantasy RPG Quasi-Class Supplement</a>, I really like the simplicity of Malloy's system. It's the minimal mechanical change you can make to add classics like Paladins to LotFP (an extremely focused and precisely-crafted game). There's no Lay on Hands bolted-on here - a Paladin is literally a nerfed Fighter with divine spells, and a Bard (if that's what you decide to call it) is a skillmonkey with arcane spells.<br />
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However, Malloy’s system is not quite complete - glaringly, nothing is said about hit dice/hit points, or about spellcasting encumbrance limits. More on that later, but first, let’s map out the hybrids available. (From hereon, I’ll be abbreviating Fighter, Specialist, Cleric and Magic-User as FTR, SPE, CLE, and MU for my own sanity.) The five combinations are:<br />
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<li>FTR-SPE (“Professional”: Ranger, Assassin or similar)</li>
<li>FTR-CLE (Paladin)</li>
<li>FTR-MU (Spellblade, or whatever other nonsense term for a gish)</li>
<li>CLE-SPE (Seeker)</li>
<li>SPE-MU (Bard, inevitably).</li>
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Now, instead of introducing a "player-facing" mix-and-match system, let’s pre-mix the options and write them out into complete classes or archetypes. Because we want to limit the complexity we present to players, and want them thinking about minmaxing the system as little as possible. So instead of letting the player choose the saving throw tracks, I will make the decision on which is appropriate for each archetype. For example, a Ranger is a FTR-SPE hybrid with Bushcraft and Stealth skills and saves as a Fighter. Assassin has Stealth and Sneak Attack and saves as a Specialist. If you want, you can add more: a FTR-SPE with Search and Tinkering could be a Tomb Raider (saves as a Specialist). In case you’re wondering what a Seeker is, it’s what I’m calling what is essentially a grave-robber in the service of a church, who goes out to recover religious relics.<br />
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Hit dice</h3>
For hit dice, I think the way to go is to split the difference and round up, so a hybrid of a d6 and d8 class would have a d8 hit die, and a MU combined with anything else would have a d6. Thus, though both are half-casters, the Paladin has more hit points than the Spellblade, which is what I would expect to see.<br />
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Experience</h3>
Then there is the matter of experience. XP required to level up in Malloy’s system is equal to the higher of the two classes, plus 50%. For example, CLE-FTR: 2,000 x 1.5 = 3,000. FTR-MU: 2,250 x 1.5 = 3,375.<br />
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However, let’s examine what a Spellblade (FTR-MU hybrid) gets over the Elf (who requires only 3,000 XP). Elves cast practically as a MU of their level. Spellblades cast at only half their level. Since I’m giving them a d6 hit die, they don’t win over the Elf in hit points or saves either. Plus, Elves have other special characteristics. Though I think it’s fine for the Elf to be as good as it is, I still think we should aim for the best possible balance when adding these new options, so the Spellblade should not cost more experience to level than the Elf - in fact, it should cost less. <br />
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On the other end of the scale, the hybrid class should certainly cost more XP than either of its constituent classes. And I believe it should also cost more XP than the Fighter, even in the case of the CLE-SPE, just because. So, we have a range of XP to aim for with our base XP (experience required for level 2, which is what all subsequent levels are calculated from) formula: more than 2,000, but less than 3,000. This is the equation I came up with for the XP required for level 2:<br />
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<b>Hybrid class base XP = (Class 1 base XP + Class 2 base XP) * 2/3</b><br />
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To keep the tables clean, I rounded the results to the nearest 100.<br />
This results in the following XP requirements for level 2:
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A nice spread, in my opinion.<br />
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<i>Side note: In case you're wondering, the formula in B/X for calculating the experience required to gain level X is: Base XP * 2^(X-2), for X>1. </i><br />
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Casting spells</h3>
The maximum encumbrance levels for spellcasting in LotFP goes like this: light - heavy - any. (MU - Elf - Cleric)<br />
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For our new classes, let’s say heavily encumbered is the default limit, and having FTR or CLE shifts it one level up, and MU one level down. The result: Paladins (FTR-CLE) and Seekers (CLE-SPE) can cast at any encumbrance, Spellblades (FTR-MU) at heavy, and Bards (SPE-MU) at light. The only strange result here is the Seeker, who usually wouldn’t be wearing armor, since they need to be unencumbered to use their movement skills. But for the Paladin, Spellblade and Bard, I think this conforms to expectations.<br />
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Cleric hybrids can prepare any spell, as normal. Magic-User hybrids learn Read Magic at 2nd level, when they gain spell slots. As for learning and researching spells, here's where you can add unique mechanics to make the flavour of world you want. Perhaps Bards don't write spells down, but record them in their head, and research spells by listening to songs and stories. Perhaps Spellblades don't write their spells into books, but etch them onto their weapons and armour.<br />
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Skills</h3>
On a minor note, I think locking FTR-SPE hybrids to two skills is right, and helps protect the Specialist’s niche a bit. But for the Seeker and Bard, I would probably allow them to allocate the points as they want to represent their more scholarly disposition. What would you even lock Bards into if you had to pick two skills? Languages and Sleight of Hand?<br />
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Final List</h3>
Here are the final classes in a dense format that should give you all the information to make a full class table for any that you like. Let me know if like these and if you want me to lay out a PDF with the full class tables. For more interesting ideas from Sword and Scoundrel, check out <a href="http://swordandscoundrel.blogspot.com/2016/07/lateral-advancement-for-lamentations-of.html">Lateral Advancement</a>.<br />
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<tr><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><b>Ranger</b></td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">+2 AB, all combat options</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">Bushcraft 2 and +1 at even levels, Stealth 2 and +1 at odd levels</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">-</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As Fighter</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">2,300</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><b>Assassin</b></td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">+2 AB, all combat options</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">Stealth 2 and +1 at even levels, Sneak Attack 2 and +1 at odd levels</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">-</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As Specialist</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">2,300</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><b>Tomb Raider</b></td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">+2 AB, all combat options</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">Search 2 and +1 at even levels, Tinker 2 and +1 at odd levels</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">-</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As Specialist</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">2,300</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><b>Paladin</b></td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">+2 AB, all combat options</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">-</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As a Cleric of half your level, any encumbrance</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As Fighter</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">2,500</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><b>Seeker</b></td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">-</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">2 skill points at start, +1 at each level</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As a Cleric of half your level, max. heavy encumbrance</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As Cleric</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">2,200</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><b>Bard</b></td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">-</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">2 skill points at start, +1 at each level</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As M-U of half your level, max. light encumbrance</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As Specialist</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">2,500</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><b>Spellblade</b></td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">+2 AB, all combat options</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">-</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As M-U of half your level, max. heavy encumbrance</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">As Magic-User</td><td style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;">2,800</td></tr>
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