Die Six - Revision Time and thoughts on the WHRPG system

[demonground]

Having survived the Thousand Thrones campaign, I'm quite inspired to revisit the Die Six fantasy system I started a few years back. I now I've got a good core idea, it's a matter of working out the kinks and actually writing up my ideas

Comments

[grandexperiment]

My only concern in using a WFRP style career system is that it does import quite a bit of setting conceits into the game. If Die Six is intended to be a generic fantasy game then each time you make a decision on a career you move one step away from that.

The rest can be used without issue though.

[demonground]

Oh, I'm more interested in the way the career both governs starting abilities, as well as guides later character progression. Further, its structure/naming conventions gives you a feeling of real development, even if statistically the advantages from one career to another isn't that great.

In Die Six the backgrounds/careers will be a lot more generic (barbarian, squire, rogue, apprentice mage, initiate priest, etc. )

[grandexperiment]

Cool.

Broadening the careers would help but you would also need to keep an eye on Entries/Exits, Trappings and even Skills/Talents. All of these things provide a picture of how the "setting" operates which may limit a more generic fantasy RPG.