Re: Re: Keywords only, or additional list of abilities?

From: L C <lightcastle_at_...>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:23:38 -0500

  Mmm....
A quick perusal of the games I can grab seems to indicate a rather wide gamut.
d20 describes its skills and its powers and classes in paragraphs, although the names are clearly suggestive. Classes (which often map to keywords) have whole pages explaining what they can do. Lord of the Rings has fairly suggestive names, followed by paragraphs of explanations and some examples of what it might be used for. Orders have pages.
Savage World describes it in paragraphs with fairly clear names for skills, Edges have a paragraph or two.

I don't think it's all that clear cut, although giving the kind of thing one can normally do with something seems pretty common.

LC

Trotsky wrote:
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> I don't know about Savage Worlds specifically, but in other systems I've
> seen (GURPS and RuneQuest, for example), the skills are much more
> specific than the keywords in HQ tend to be. For instance, it's not hard
> to remember what 'Sword Combat' does; it's less obvious what the keyword
> "Mercenary" entails. At least it is for me; other people probably have
> different experiences.
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