That's right, for the 6th edition of Dungeons & Dragons Wizards will be converting everything over to Infinite Adventures (aka; Dangeorous Journeys, Infinite Adventures was Gary's original name for his new RPG.)
Instead of Player Characters you will have Heroic Personas; instead of Character Classes, Vocations. Instead of Strength and Dexterity you'll have Physical Muscular Power and Physical Neural Power. The new game setting will be called Ærth, and elves and goblins will be (literally) creatures from another planet.
It will be skilled based, come in three volumes --- Personas, Magic, and The Epic of Ærth ---, and Dragon and Dungeon magazines will be renamed Journeys (players) and Mythic Masters (adventure masters) respectively.
This will all occur when I've won one billion dollars in the lottery and bought into Hasbro.
(Now that's a troll.
)if you ever get a billion dollars, wouldnt you have fun doing something else?
It was completely skill-based, had a vast selection of skills and sub-skills to cover every little minutiae you could want. The attribute system was more of an attempt to model human statistics as a series of mathematical equations than it was anything you could understand. And then there was the absolute option-rich beauty that was the magic system for the game, with well over 1700 spells, all of which could be made available to an enterprising character at once, should he so choose.
Did I thoroughly love this game? Yes.
Was it well designed? ... No.
Would I ever play it again? Heavens no.
Do I feel the need to talk about it at the drop of a hat if it is ever mentioned, even in passing?
Ok, the game that you are referring to was called Mythus, and it was part of the Dangerous Journeys system... much like Dungeons & Dragons used to be a D20 game. I know all this because I used to play it... and if Simulationism and "options" is what you are looking for, then this was the game for you.
It was completely skill-based, had a vast selection of skills and sub-skills to cover every little minutiae you could want. The attribute system was more of an attempt to model human statistics as a series of mathematical equations than it was anything you could understand. And then there was the absolute option-rich beauty that was the magic system for the game, with well over 1700 spells, all of which could be made available to an enterprising character at once, should he so choose.
Did I thoroughly love this game? Yes.
Was it well designed? ... No.
Would I ever play it again? Heavens no.
Do I feel the need to talk about it at the drop of a hat if it is ever mentioned, even in passing?
Sounds very interesting, I'll have to check it out. Any comments about how the system would compare to say... Runequest?
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