Proposals Updated (2024-12-06)

Over 1200 changes (20+ new pages), including:

• Inclusion of Stat abbreviations in the main table
• A grid of possible Specialty intersections between Attributes and Skills with some examples
• Additional Specialty examples beyond the grid
• Sub-specialty options
• Definitions to separate standard and free-used action points from special purpose ones
• Guidelines and ideas around the role of heritage and culture in TTRPGs
• Guidelines around differentiating similar actions
• Item stacks for semi-expendable items like arrows
• Some example items from LoX
• Pulled in Skill descriptions from LoX
• Pulled in earlier versions of GIST’s Attributes as alternate rules
• Additional Skill starting spreads
• Luck as a Stat and its usage
• Improvements to how check difficulty is explained and what affects it
• Pulled in killing blow rules from another version of LoX
• Tables for different damage types, abbreviations, and severities with their resistances
• Expanded Injury table to serve as examples of different impairments
• Moved various ideas into more appropriate proposals
• Notes on pivotal rolls and compressed time, based on observations on how real games play out
• Updated terminology and added examples for different terrain types
• Pulled in and expanded an analysis of different inventory systems and healing items and how they impact game difficulty
• Added (096) guidelines for how player characters can be introduced to the world to better anchor them in the narrative and to each other
• Added (097) an alternative proposal stub for count up vs count down health systems
• Added (098) stub for game difficulty in general
• Added (099) a new proposal dedicated to perception and senses with different options like using Skill checks versus dedicated Attributes and its relationship to other stats
• Added (100) a stub dedicated to NPCs
• Added (101) a stub dedicated to the “targeting” mechanic, still needs most of its content to be extracted from the Combat and Checks proposals
• Added (102) a stub dedicated to Factions