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Portraits of Adventurers in Original System Playtest

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Adventurers of the Caverns of Ublad - Drawn by ghobo It's been almost a month since I last posted. Been busy with work and other RPG brainstorming shanenigans as usual. I think solo-RPGs are not as productive as I thought it would be and so I have put them on pause for now.  Recently I've been working on my original homebrew system called the "BASS System" - the abbreviation referring to the four main stats - Beauty, Ability, Strength and Spirit - used in the system. Why I chose these four stats - well it was around 3 months ago since formulated the system in the span of around 3 days, and if I recall my previous mood, I remembered I wanted a quick and easy system that allowed me to summarize all the key qualities of an adventurer in terms of roleplay, without removing that player agency - i.e. Beauty instead of Charisma, because the player should be encouraged to look for RP ways of convincing or persuading a character instead of rolling a die, whereas Beauty is more