Dyllan
2008-12-30, 08:35 AM
I'm a big fan of the D10 system used in Legend of the Five Rings, so I've decided to work on modifying it to use in D&D.
So far, I've gotten rid of the ring system, and decided on 8 traits. Rolls will be either Roll skill + trait, keep trait or roll skill + higher of two traits, keep lower of two traits. Instead of a maximum of 10 insight ranks, I've broken it down to 20, with 15 points of insight between ranks (instead of 25).
In L5R, you roll (basically) level + ring, keep ring for casting... I've changed that to a skill roll, with a separate skill for each school of magic (using the 8 D&D magic schools). There will be 9 levels of spells, and learning them will be restricted based on insight rank - exactly like learning spells based on level in D&D.
What I'm not so sure about is spells per day. In L5R, they're based on your ring - but we don't have rings here. In D&D, you get a certain number of each level. I'm not sure I like that, because it seems like just too many spells at high levels, and too few at low levels. Any suggestions of how I can get around that?
So far, I've gotten rid of the ring system, and decided on 8 traits. Rolls will be either Roll skill + trait, keep trait or roll skill + higher of two traits, keep lower of two traits. Instead of a maximum of 10 insight ranks, I've broken it down to 20, with 15 points of insight between ranks (instead of 25).
In L5R, you roll (basically) level + ring, keep ring for casting... I've changed that to a skill roll, with a separate skill for each school of magic (using the 8 D&D magic schools). There will be 9 levels of spells, and learning them will be restricted based on insight rank - exactly like learning spells based on level in D&D.
What I'm not so sure about is spells per day. In L5R, they're based on your ring - but we don't have rings here. In D&D, you get a certain number of each level. I'm not sure I like that, because it seems like just too many spells at high levels, and too few at low levels. Any suggestions of how I can get around that?