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From: "Mark "Tipop" Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Open_Gaming] D20 Earthdawn a possibility
> From: "Paul Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I wish they'd go the D20 route. You could fairly easily translate most
> > of the things that make Earthdawn "better" into D20. Hmm. There
> > might be a legal problem, though. One of the things that definitely
> > differentiates Earthdawn is character advancement (characters buy
> > skill levels one by one until eventually they meet the requirements
> > of the next level) and it would be challenging to state this without
> > violating the OGF rules.
>
> I don't think that advancement method is necessary to keep the flavor
> and attraction of Earthdawn. It's almost a chicken-and-egg point... do
you
> advance in skills to get the level or do you advance in level to get the
> skills? You could do Earthdawn using the D&D3e advancement system without
> disturbing it much, I believe.
Except for those characters who in ED deliberatly traded going up in levels
fast for being good at one thing. One of my players decided to stay at level
2 until after the rest of the party were 4-6 level by raising only two or
three of his talents and thus not making the requirements for level 3.
You also get character improvement [raising a skill] much more frequently
than you get level gain, thus the players feel rewarded more frequently.
Adam
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