Too many stats for my taste.  VOR is fine, but I don’t think we should have more than 5 total.  My list would be:

Strength - STR
Speed - SPD
Magic - SPL
Social - SOC

and possibly VOR as above.

I agree.  Also, I don’t like the way you gain the starting values.  I would rather see an adventurer get so many points to spread across the skills as they please.

Yea, easy enough to move them to skills, which I think would work better.

But the randomness is more DnD style Yoda. Same with using all the stats, outside of VOR which I added simply because I can.

And having them as skills would be stupid. Skills and attributes are completely different things.

I don’t have a proposal slot free, but I was going to make the starting attributes equal to [Race bonus]
+ [Class Bonus] + DICE4.

But then we would need race bonuses and class bonuses. And that would be racist. And classist.

If the number of attributes are a problem, we can always just axe attributes later.

For the record, I only used the term “Dungeon Master” because I couldn’t think of a better name, not because I wanted this to be a strictly D&D;dynasty.  I would rather sacrifice some randomness so we can start new players on somewhat of an equal footing.  (I was planning on letting new players spread a number of skill points equal to 1 less than the total of the lowest player when they join.)

I agree with Yoda, this isn’t DnD even if it’s styled as an RPG, and a point-buy system is more equitable than random rolls.

I also agree that there are too many attributes proposed by this. Taking from Bucky, I think the following would be more streamlined:

Strength - STR for strength/constitution
Agility - AGL for dexterity
Will - WLL combining magic, intelligence/wisdom and charisma

And then VOR, etc.

I personally like these abbreviations better than what Bucky put because they’re more easily distinguishable from each other and don’t all begin with the same letter.

Where in the ruleset does it define what kind of RPG this is?

It doesn’t.  But the DM has declared what king of RPG he was EXPECTING it to be.

I don’t think I have ever known the theme to actually be stated in the ruleset.  Correct me if I’m wrong, though.

And, yes, I like Dustin’s ideas better than Bucky’s.  We can make STR, AGL, WLL, and either Constitution or Defense the combat skills that make up the overall level of the character and use VOR, CHA, and some others for non-combat skills that may affect certain other situations.

Let me know if you like this:

When an Adventurer joins, they gain 5*N skill points, where N is the number of non-combat skills, to spread over the non-combat skills as they choose.

After the First Test, Adventurers gain 3*C plus DICE(2*C) skill points, where C is the number of combat skills, to spread over the combat skills as they choose.

We could also make it to where after a certain time, new adventurers gain a number of skill points equal to one less than the adventurer with the lowest total in each category.

On a side note, does anyone know how to get the IE to stop caching the wiki pages?  It’s getting kind of annoying.

Use firefox? Seriously, as a person who works with web developers, using IE causes them a lot of pain and using it is selfish =P.

(Actually, I don’t think FF fixes the problem. Its some setting somewhere. I think someone made a wikipage as a guide).

Also if you ask me, getting into combat and non-combat skills is getting too complex. Also you basically just ratteled off more skills than I mentioned, but everyone was like ‘omg too many skillz’