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Friday, January 19, 2024

ADEPT: a modest proposal

Are you reinventing RuneQuest or Traveller this time? You fool. You rube. You absolute buffoon. I am reinventing HârnMaster.

the xkcd comic about how standards proliferate
xkcd: Standards

Listen. Everyone hates the six-score array. It sucks, and the history of non-D&D RPGs is practically a history of variants of the array and its uses. There are plenty of theoretical issues to raise with the standard six. However, here are three problems only the worst pedant would have with it:

  • The canonical order of the abilities is not alphabetical.
  • Two abilities share an initial letter.
  • There is no mnemonic device for the abilities.

I propose to solve these (and really, only these) problems with the ADEPT array: