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House Rules

The base system is Mutants and Masterminds (found here http://www.d20herosrd.com/). My goal is to combine the D&D friendly player facing potion of 2nd edition with the mechanically streamlined and free to play mechanics of 3rd edition. Also I'm adding some restrictions to enforce the High Fantasy feel.

Abilities
Reverting back from the 3rd ed's 8 stats to 2nd ed's 6 stats, Attack and Defense bonus.

To clarify the stats we are using Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.

Additionally we are using Score and modifier style abilities rather than modifier only. In practice this means that all powers will directly increase your ability modifier but drains will be half as effective and you need to reach 0 in an ability to be incapacitated (rather than -5). Ability costs are modified appropriately.

Attack Bonus
Attack Bonus adds to the accuracy of all of your attacks, this replaces the fighting and close/ranged combat skills.
Attack = 1d20 + Attack Bonus + Size Modifier + Miscellaneous - Range Penalty

Defense Bonus
Defense bonus adds to your Defense against being hit by attack.
Defense = 10 + Defense Bonus + Size Modifier + Miscellaneous Modifiers

Skills
Skills are following 3rd ed's slimmed down skill list. Close and Ranged Combat skills have been removed in favor of having a base attack bonus.

SKILL	ABILITY	UNTRAINED?	ACTION
Acrobatics	Dex	No	move or free
Athletics	Str	Yes	move
Deception	Cha	Yes	standard
*Expertise	Int	No*	—
Insight	Wis	Yes	free
Intimidation	Cha	Yes	standard
Investigation	Int	No	—
Perception	Wis	Yes	free
Persuasion	Cha	Yes	—
Sleight of Hand	Dex	No	standard
Stealth	Dex	Yes	move
Technology	Int	No	standard
Treatment	Int	No	standard
*Vehicles	Dex	No	move

Descriptions of all skills can be found here at the M&M SRD.

Point Values
The values below are over ridden by the values in the character creation thread if the values differ.

Trait	Cost
Ability	1
Attack Bonus	2
Defense Bonus	2
Skill Point	0.5 (aka 2 for 1)