call me Thad...I've been Gaming for over 33 years...I've played every Edition of D&D, Gammaworld (First ed), Shadowrun, Cyberpunk, Rifts, Gurps, Fudge, And more than i can remember...Mostly as a Game Master...of table top, pen & paper games.
In real life... I was Aramis of the Musketeers for 8 years at a Renaissance Festival. I know how to ride horseback, Fire a Musket, And Fight with Rapier & dagger. and speak French.
I'm actually creating my own RPG and Core rules.
My Game mechanics can work in any setting, genera, time or place, I have technology ages ranging form Stone Age, Iron Age, Renaissance age, Modern Age, and Future Age.
Characters can be Anyone they so chose from any setting or Book, or Movie, or Video Game, TV show or from their own imagination.
I class them into Any "Humanoid" Any "Animorphic" any "Sentient animal" any "Cyborg", any "Android" or Any "Plant"
Their are 6 main attributes and 4 sub attributes, and it's a skill based game. Skill range form 1-30 falling into these categories: Novice, Proficient, Specialist, Expert, Master, and Grand Master.
The "Action Roll" is open ended which means if you roll a 20 on a d20 you roll it again and add it to you previous roll. This way even a novice could roll 3 20's in a row and accomplish a an incredible roll/feat of skill.
It's also Strictly a d20 game no other die are needed to play
Because i was trained in Rapier & Dagger combat I used that knowledge to reflect it in my game when it came to Combat/melee...
Characters roll for regular initiative to see who goes first, The first person to go goes on the "Advance". Each level of Mastery has so many Advances it cam use to attack: Novice 1 advance, Proficient 2, Specialist 3, Expert 4, Master 5, and Grad mater 6 so this is how many times the Attacker can advance on the defender, The defender has to block, parry, dodge, every advance made (Skill VS Skill) NOT Armor class, Armor absorbs damage. After the attacker used his Advances he becomes Defender and in Turn the defender become attacker and use his/her advances on the new defender...IF However the Defense Roll is 10 points higher that the Attack roll on the actual dies rolled the Defender thwarts any and all advances the attacker could have used against him and then the Automatically switch sides the defender becomes the new Attacker and the previous attackers goes on defense battle continues until there is a winner.
playing combat like this is Epic
see ya around
