Points of Light

…but I still probably won’t use it, because it was something I’d initially considered for Cowboys & Cthulhu, which is being designed from the ground up. The 2nd Edition of Dungeons & Delvers is basically down to doing/redoing art and layout since...

A criticism that I’ve heard about ability scores in Dungeons & Dragons is that Dexterity is a “king stat”, or something along those lines. I suppose it varies by edition but I think it wasn’t that bad in 3rd Edition since armor for some reason capped...

Something I’d considered on more than a few occasions was to change Dungeons & Delvers into a classless, skill-based game. Basically, you’d have an Adventurer, and then spend points on various stats and skills, as well as Talents and such.
Conceptually I’d prefer this method because then you have truly organic, flexible character creation and advancement: you can be a fighter with various skills, maybe just a bit of magic, or a wizard who really knows how to swing a sword because you had...

Here’s the original from Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book, illustrated around 8 years ago:
And here’s the one I just finished today:
(For 2nd Edition we’re adding a series of chimera tables—origin, size, number of animals, individual animals—so you can generate one on the fly.)...