>>3646
Why the fuck is there so much cancer on here all of a sudden?

>>3645
I sincerely doubt you're the first to have thought of this, moreover unless it's some kind of astounding technical breakthrough someone somewhere else in the world has likely come to the same conclusions.

>if released on the internet, can help people but also do an awful lot of harm if other people use it wrong

Anything released into the wild like that WILL eventually find its way to the worst actors. So the assumption should be that awful people find it. Since you're posting on a *chan odds are the awful people will be first to find it. If you post on cripplechan or came from vierkanal, you are the awful person likely to use it wrong as evidenced by

>But at the same time I have this urge to make my mark in this world and affect it

since this statement clearly implies that you don't actually give a shit about the consequences of your actions, only that there are consequences.

>What would you do in this situation?

Old me: release it into the wild. Me now: probably keep it.

>>20040
That combination seems interesting. I'd need to figure a way to make it intuitive since mismatching dice pools are typically a bit weird to wrap your head around without mechanical backup to break it down (see: FFG narrative system as a decent example) but I do like it. Though I don't know if I prefer it to just 3d6 unless I figure out something neat with the different dice.

The project started as a GURPS splatbook on the period (and I may still do it since GURPS would still run it excellently). The newer version is its own thing though. Essentially the core mechanic that I'm working on runs on the assumption that generally when you set out to do something you're either pretty sure you can do it, pretty sure you can't, or just dunno. This factors pretty well into a 3d4 distribution because you have a nice section where you go from ~75%->50%->~25%. Then I think about how you typically approach problems, you look for things you can either turn into helpful things for yourself or at least make them less of an issue (opening a tight jar can be tricky, but get a rag to help your grip and it can become pretty easy). So I decided that I'd work that into a narrative mechanic where negative modifiers are either reduced, neutralised or turned around by player interaction and/or use of items to make a target number that's more viable. The harder the initial obstacle, the craftier you need to get with planning it out and even then you might just make it into an iffy situation if it's a very dangerous task. It has similar uses in contested rolls where relative skills and attributes would act as modifiers in a kind of tug-of-war to determine attacks vs defending. Unfortunately, the same curve that makes those little modifiers impactful and interesting has the problem of limiting the way they can be used because of low granularity meaning there aren't as many in-between goldilocks zones to make TNs. As it stands, I'll probably end up stripping it down into something a bit less out there and go back to 3d6 where I initially began, but I want to explore my options first. See if I can't work something out. It's a fun little timewaster either way.

Oh, and it's a system with limited skill advancement because of how important skills are. Instead a skill increase is a significant event and the main way you progress is through increasing a Renown stat which acts similarly to a level but it doesn't affect power, but rather higher levels of it will open up more doors and/or better opportunities. That's a top-down design that I came up with based on the concept of 'Batyrism' during the time period, where some of the big name warlords were actually just very popular locals with a vast number of troops who followed them, not the Sultans/Khans rather than being just given command by the nobility.