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In the interest of procrastinating my upcoming assignments, I wanted to elaborate on something I posited on another website: replacing Intelligence and Wisdom with Arcane and Faith. What this means: Arcane is your hyper-specific magical and occult lore. It's your time spent reading giant tomes and dusty grimoires bound with hopefully-not-human leather. Arcane is your mathematics degree, rather then having any direct bearing on like, general knowledge. Faith is your blind trust in a cosmic path through the universe. The more you believe in something, the more real it is. If enough people believe in you, you too can play God. Reasons I like this: De-emphasizes character intelligence. You (the player) are clever. Don't feel like you need to roleplay otherwise because of stats. I think people already know this, but I like to see it reflected in game terms. Works well with od&d. Prime requisites map cleanly onto character classes. Wisdom becomes the Cleric ability. Intelligenc

Morale system I've been using lately: Check morale when a group of npcs loses a leader or suffers half casualties, or when a solo npc suffers half health. To check morale roll a d20. If result is equal to or greater then target's Morale score, morale fails, the group attempts to retreat. Otherwise, morale holds. Morale score is by type of creature, as follows: Morale Example 10+ Normal humans, animals 12+ Bandits, orcs, goblins 14+ Mercenaries, elves, dwarves, hobgoblins 16+ Monsters. Basilisks, ghouls, ogres 18+ Demons, dragons What I like about this system is that I never need to reference a book. It didn't take long for me to have this memorized, and I've been yet to find a monster that doesn't neatly slot onto this scale. I also find it very satisfying that this system uses the same 12-14-16 rule I prefer for armour class and saving throws.

Hi, I'm alice! I've been playing ttrpgs for close to half my life now, and sometimes I have thoughts about them, so I made a blog. I don't except to post super regularly, I just wanted a place to put my thoughts. I love lots of different types of games, though I expect I'll mostly end up posting about od&d.