Knights & Knaves Alehouse

Downloaded and skimmed - looks very clear and clean. I'll have to read more of it over this weekend. Glad that it's seeing the light of day, Matt.

joe b.

cant wait to check it out

If it is ok to ask a question about your design choice on this thread, why did you use D6 for hit dice on all three classes yet D8 for monsters and variable damage for weapons?

Thoth Amon wrote:If it is ok to ask a question about your design choice on this thread, why did you use D6 for hit dice on all three classes yet D8 for monsters and variable damage for weapons?

I used d6 with a bonus that approximates the Supplement 1 averages, so numerically the character hit dice correspond to the d8 HD, which in turn corresponds to the variable weapon damage. Fighters have a +2 to that d6, clerics have a +1, and the MU has a -1. It was a compromise between the d6 from the White Box and the numbers from Supplement 1. Why a compromise, when it ends up being neither fish nor fowl? Because at one time I was trying to capture the feel of the White Box while retaining the flexibility of the post-whitebox for house-ruling and compatibility. I abandoned that goal and split the projects into a white box group as well as my core (post-WB) project, because it became clear to me that my biases were getting in the way of my writing the White Box project accurately, and that I simply couldn't do both in one set of rules.

Why didn't I change the hit dice back to the traditional ones at that point? Mm, I don't really know. The average was the same, and I really liked the feel of it, so I kept it as one of the "legal-oriented" modifications that you've got to have in one of these things. But in truth, the d6 with bonus for character hit dice really wasn't ever a "design" type of thing; it resulted from having too many goals at once, and stayed because I just felt affectionate toward using a d6 for all the classes...

But numerically in terms of averages, it matches up with the d8 monster HD and the variable weapon damage.