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Kakita Aramoro
Posted: Aug 4 2004, 05:57 PM
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have any of you heard of this?

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Tired of multi-classing, just to get one ability from a certain class? Perhaps you wanted to be a Rogue with a few spells, but the ‘singing’ Bard was not appealing. Maybe you wanted to be a nature warrior, but did not desire all the spells from the Ranger class? Have you ever wanted a mage who could rage?

Have you ever thought it was silly to adventure for weeks and weeks without ever showing improvement, but then you hit a ‘magic’ number of xp and ‘BAM’: all of your abilities increase? Has your character ever traveled into a new land and you asked the GM if you could try and learn the local language? But the GM had to respond “sorry, you can’t learn anything new until you get 4,500 more experience points”.

Now, you no longer have to purchase libraries full of supplements, just to find a pseudo-class that suits your needs. Now you can gain skills, abilities, spells, as you go!

Get ready to change the way you think of character advancement. Get ready to have unprecedented freedom of choice! Get ready for: “Buy the Numbers!”

Seems interesting to me, at least the idea behind it, though not having seen the product itself , I'm uncertain of the implementation.

(edit) oops forgot to add the url where i got it from: http://www.stcooleypublishing.com/index.php

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Posted: Aug 4 2004, 09:49 PM
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well, if anyone buys it, give us the heads up.
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Posted: Aug 9 2004, 10:31 PM
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A review at RPGnet
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Posted: Aug 10 2004, 09:55 AM
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Sounds very like the Runequest system of improvement.

you could use:
Put a mark next to the skill that has just been used.
Next time you get a bit of respite in the adventure roll a D10 for each of the skills used and see if it is greater than your current skill score. If it is then increase the skill score by 1 otherwise leave it as is.

If the skill is greater than 10 then the skill increases by one on a roll of 10 on a D10

You should get a quick increase in all the skills you use regularly which tails off as it becomes more and more difficult to roll above the skill score.
The difficulty would be in integrating this with the talents and such like that you get at certain levels.


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Kakita Aramoro
Posted: Aug 12 2004, 08:59 AM
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I actually ended up getting it a few days ago, since then I've been working on converting it to a format that I can use in WoT. I guess I could post my changes here later.
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Posted: Aug 19 2004, 06:46 PM
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Please post any workable changes to the WoT d20 system here and try to get it on kinslayersdagger! smile.gif

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Kakita Aramoro
Posted: Aug 20 2004, 07:20 PM
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so far I've converted most of the abilities from WoT into this system, but I've stayed away from the chanelling system up to this point, and I haven't really thought of how best to convert the Noble's abilities. I'm just beguining to test it out right now, I had a very short session last night, which highlighted the potential for abuse of my version of the Buy the Numbers system as it currently stands. I'd post what Ihave right now, but I dont think that the tables would translate very well into it.... oh well I'll see what I can do. smile.gif
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Posted: Sep 7 2004, 03:14 AM
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thanks... I am very interested in what this looks like
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Posted: Sep 7 2004, 07:17 PM
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How is the transfer going on this?
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Kakita Aramoro
Posted: Sep 7 2004, 09:03 PM
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oi, sowy I havent been working on this for a while, the problem with posting it is that I'm not sure just how much I can post w/o violating copyright and what-not. At the moment I have a 14 page booklet which I've handed my players with everything they need to know to make their characters. it is both more and less than what the original mater gives you, since I have seriously adapted it for my own use. I guess I could post that , but it's set up for the way that I'd run it, not for the options that other DMs would want to give their players. ( my booklet :14 pages, original Booklet: about 56 I cut a lot of the options out)
it is curently in SDW format and I dont have word so its not easy for me to transcribe it... hmn thats about that for now cool.gif
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Posted: Sep 8 2004, 02:35 PM
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Copy it into a .txt document and post that.

By the way what is SDW format any way?

If all else fails you can copy it and post the writing. You could split it up over several posts if need be.
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Kakita Aramoro
Posted: Sep 8 2004, 07:55 PM
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the SDW format is star office (maybe open office too).

the problem with posting it as a text only is that all the wonderfull tables I've made will be gone. perhaps if I save it in one of the ms word formats (I think that 97 is the most recent one I can save into.) oh well I'll give it a try smile.gif
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Kakita Aramoro
Posted: Sep 8 2004, 08:01 PM
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hmn, a copy paste into word pad sorta worked, I have to manually add in all of the tables I made though, and then re-size them... dry.gif
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Posted: Sep 9 2004, 12:17 AM
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QUOTE (Kakita Aramoro @ Sep 8 2004, 09:55 AM)
the SDW format is star office (maybe open office too).

the problem with posting it as a text only is that all the wonderfull tables I've made will be gone. perhaps if I save it in one of the ms word formats (I think that 97 is the most recent one I can save into.) oh well I'll give it a try smile.gif

Microsoft Word's file format has stayed the same from Word 97 through Word 2003 (including Word 2000, Word XP/2002, and the corresponing Mac releases).


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Kakita Aramoro
Posted: Sep 9 2004, 01:17 AM
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unfortunately, when I tried saving it in word format it killed my tables, it treats them as if they were a whole bunch of wierd text. . . I shal labour on though wink.gif
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Kakita Aramoro
Posted: Sep 9 2004, 01:38 AM
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now, how do I add that fourteen page file in here as an attachment? I really dont want to try to paste in the text and then try to remake the tables from scratch.

or at your request I can email it to you

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