d20 Classless

This is a modification of the regular d20 rules system. Your background (race) determines your talent path and the chart below will have the limits and conviction gain at every level listed below. For every 15 character points you spend increases your power level.

 

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House Rules Character Sheet

Classless Character Generation :

Talents and many other special abilities from other classes are available for your character, even if they are not on this site.

Characters may have only 5 BP from Defects, and one Weakness.

POWER LEVEL

Power level is an overall measure of effectiveness and power, primarily combat ability, but also generally what sort of tasks a character can be expected to accomplish on a regular basis, assuming the ability to take 10 and take 20 (see Checks Without Rolls, page 11).

Power level is a value set by the Gamemaster for the campaign. It places certain limits on where and how players can spend points when creating character es. Power level affects the following things:

All totals below represent the maximum bonus that the given character aspect may have.

• Attack: Your character ’s total attack bonus cannot exceed the campaign’s power level.

• Defense: Your character ’s total defense bonus cannot exceed the campaign’s power level.

• Damage Save Difficulty: The saving throw modifier for your character ’s attacks and powers cannot exceed the what is allowed at the campaign’s power level .

• Toughness Save: Your character ’s total Toughness saving throw modifier cannot exceed the campaign’s power level current maximum.

• Fortitude, Reflex, and Will Saves: Your character ’s total Fortitude, Reflex, and Will save modifiers cannot exceed the campaign level +5.

• Skill Rank: A character cannot have more ranks in a skill than the campaign’s power level +5. So in a PL10 campaign, a player character cannot have more than 15 ranks in any one skill (10 + 5).

• Ability Scores: Ability scores are limited to a bonus no greater than +5 or -2, before racial adjustments. Characters may increase their ability scores by +1 for 2 Character Points, but they can not increase any ability score beyond +5 this way. Only through Enhanced (ability), or racial adjustments, may they increase an Ability Score beyond the +5 limit.

Free Stuff

Reputation: This is a characters base reputation. A characters total Reputation bonus is limited by their character level.

Action Point: This is a characters base Action Points. Actions points can only be restored by the expenditure of a Plot Point.

Conviction: This is a characters base Conviction. Conviction can be restored by Plot Points, or by doing act that follow the principles of their Virtue.

ATTACK/DEFENSE TRADE-OFFS

Although the campaign’s power level defines certain limits, there is some flexibility to them. Players can choose to lower one power level limit on a character to raise another related limit. You can adjust power level limits in the following ways:

• Attack & Damage Bonus: You can trade-off base attack bonus for the saving throw Difficulty Class modifier with an attack on a one-to-one basis. So a PL 10 character could have a +10 attack bonus in order to have a +15 save DC modifier, for example, or a character that has chosen to have a +15 attack bonus is limited to a +8 save DC modifier. This modification does not apply to powers that do not require attack rolls; they remain limited by the campaign’s normal PL limit on save DC modifiers.

• Defense & Toughness: You can trade-off base defense bonus for Toughness saving throw bonus on a one-to-one basis. So a PL 10 character with a +10 defense bonus could have a +15 Toughness save bonus total.

Conversely a character in the same campaign who has a +13 base defense bonus is limited to a +12 Toughness save bonus total.

No limit can be reduced to less than 0 in this way, or any one bonus exceed the campaign level by +5, and the GM must approve all such trade-offs. Attack/defense trade-offs allow for some variety in combat-related bonuses while maintaining power level balance among the character es overall.

Increasing Stats	Cost	Notes
Defense Bonus	2	Gives you +1 to your defense bonus.
Attack Bonus	2	Gives you +1 to your base attack bonus.
Saves	1	+1 to Fortitude, Reflex, or Will. (not Toughness)
4 Skill Points	1	Skill points do not apply your INT bonus.
Talents	2	You must follow along the Talent Tree in order to advance.
Feats	1	Feat, Ranked Feats, and Stunts

 

Normal Campaign Power

	Maximum Bonus by Effective Character Level									Max
Level	Character Point Cost	Save Bonus	Skill Rank	Talents	Ability Score	Attack Bonus	Save DC	Toughness	Defense Bonus	Conviction
1st	15	+6	6	1	22	+1	+1	+1	+1	1
2nd	30	+7	7	2	24	+2	+2	+2	+2	2
3rd	45	+8	8	3	26	+3	+3	+3	+3	3
4th	60	+9	9	4	28	+4	+4	+4	+4	4
5th	75	+10	10	5	30	+5	+5	+5	+5	5
6th	90	+11	11	6	32	+6	+6	+6	+6	6
7th	105	+12	12	7	34	+7	+7	+7	+7	7
8th	120	+13	13	8	36	+8	+8	+8	+8	8
9th	135	+14	14	9	38	+9	+9	+9	+9	9
10th	150	+15	15	10	40	+10	+10	+10	+10	10
11th	165	+16	16	11	42	+11	+11	+11	+11	11
12th	180	+17	17	12	44	+12	+12	+12	+12	12
13th	195	+18	18	13	46	+13	+13	+13	+13	13
14th	210	+19	19	14	48	+14	+14	+14	+14	14
15th	225	+20	20	15	50	+15	+15	+15	+15	15
16th	240	+21	21	16	52	+16	+16	+16	+16	16
17th	255	+22	22	17	54	+17	+17	+17	+17	17
18th	270	+23	23	18	56	+18	+18	+18	+18	18
19th	285	+24	24	19	58	+19	+19	+19	+19	19
20th	300	+25	25	20	60	+20	+20	+20	+20	20

 

 

Low Power Campaign

 

Maximum by Effective Character Level
Level	Character Point Total	Save Bonus	Ability Score	Skill Rank	Save DC	Attack Bonus	Toughness	Defense	Conviction
1st	25	+2	12	4	+2	+1	+2	+1	1
2nd	32	+3	13	5	+3	+2	+3	+2	2
3rd	39	+3	14	6	+3	+3	+3	+3	3
4th	46	+4	15	7	+4	+4	+4	+4	4
5th	53	+4	16	8	+4	+5	+4	+5	5
6th	60	+5	17	9	+5	+6	+5	+6	6
7th	67	+5	18	10	+5	+7	+5	+7	7
8th	74	+6	19	11	+6	+8	+6	+8	8
9th	81	+6	20	12	+6	+9	+6	+9	9
10th	88	+7	21	13	+7	+10	+7	+10	10
11th	95	+7	22	14	+7	+11	+7	+11	11
12th	102	+8	23	15	+8	+12	+8	+12	12
13th	109	+8	24	16	+8	+13	+8	+13	13
14th	116	+9	25	17	+9	+14	+9	+14	14
15th	123	+9	26	18	+9	+15	+9	+15	15
16th	130	+10	27	19	+10	+16	+10	+16	16
17th	137	+10	28	20	+10	+17	+10	+17	17
18th	144	+11	29	21	+11	+18	+11	+18	18
19th	151	+11	30	22	+11	+19	+11	+19	19
20th	158	+12	30	23	+12	+20	+12	+20	20

 

TIME AND VALUE PROGRESSION For Lower Power

RANK	TIME	VALUE	RANGE
1	3 seconds (1 action)	1	10 ft
2	6 seconds (1 round)	2	15ft
3	1 minute (10 rounds)	5	25ft
4	5 minutes	10	35f t
5	10 minutes	15	75ft
6	15 minutes	25	100ft
7	20 minutes	35	150 ft
8	25 minutes	75	250ft
9	40 minutes	100	350 ft
10	1 hour	125	500 ft
11	6 hours	150	750 ft
12	12 hours	200	1000 ft
13	1 day	300	1500 ft
14	1 week	400	2500 ft
15	2 weeks	500	3500 ft
16	1 month	600	1 Mile
17	2 months	700	1.5 Miles
18	4 months	800	2 Miles
19	8 months	900	3 Miles
20	1 year	1000	5 Miles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mecha Power Level Information (for d20)

Equipment Slot: This is the maximum number of Equipment Slots that a Mecha may have in use at any one time. This total does include slots used for a pilot. If you increase slots through Character Points you may do at 3 points for +1 slots.

Total Ability Score: This is the maximum combined Total Ability Score of the pilot while inside of their Mecha.

Trade Off Maximums: This represents the total allowable bonus between either Attack and Damage Save, or Toughness and Defense.This is the maximum total even while the pilot is inside of the Mecha.

	Maximum Bonus by Effective Character Level
	Maximum		Trade-Off Maximums (total between)
Level	Equipment Slots	Total Ability Score	Attack and Damage Bonus	Toughness and Defense
1st	6	+6	+17	+17
2nd	8	+7	+19	+19
3rd	10	+8	+21	+21
4th	11	+9	+23	+23
5th	12	+10	+25	+25
6th	12	+11	+27	+27
7th	13	+12	+29	+29
8th	14	+13	+31	+31
9th	14	+14	+32	+32
10th	15	+15	+35	+35
11th	16	+16	+37	+37
12th	16	+17	+39	+39
13th	17	+18	+41	+41
14th	17	+19	+43	+43
15th	18	+20	+45	+45
16th	19	+21	+47	+47
17th	19	+22	+49	+49
18th	20	+23	+51	+51
19th	21	+24	+53	+53
20th	21	+25	+55	+55