system design

Looking through my copy of mythras has got me thinking about modifiers, bonuses, roll percentages, and using the existing rules as creatively as possible, to the point where I want to look at other ttrpg systems in more depth and what I can scratch together from looking at other folk's takes at...

Waaaaay back at the turn of the century (I LOVE that I'm actually able to use that term!) when I first bought into Traveller with T4, I was surprised to learn that skills were not attached to attributes as in my favorite system (D6 Star Wars). Being young and a bit stiff-necked at the time, I...