Okay so I know peter definitely wants to keep numbers tiny, and they generally seem a lot easier to work with, which is cool. OTOH, having larger numbers makes it a bit easier to fine tune things, especially statuses.
That said, I think "flat bonuses" might stick around just for ease of use, even if it means that buffs/debuffs kinda suck on inherently stronger attacks. Though that's kind of off topic. Anyway.
On top of that, we're currently playing around with the idea of there not being any player allocated attributes. I'm not super sure how I feel about this, to be honest. On the one hand it makes it super easy to balance stuff. OTOH it also feels weird to disregard it entirely. It's also weird that we don't have die rolls in attacks at all, which also seems to have this weird side effect of players not remembering to… list the damage their attacks do, which is mildly annoying since I don't wanna have to memorize/look up everyone's sheet constantly.
So I was kinda thinking something along the lines of like… What if we just straight up doubled the values we're using right now, rather than going into the triple digits we're used to? Keeps things kind of smaller and grounded and in the higher tiers of D&D feeling, which are still workable. And then like, give everything a d4~d8 roll? Possibly having like 1d4, 2d6 and 1d8 you can assign for your melee/gun/magic/heal strengths, in place of attribute allocation? idk, might not be a great idea but figured I'd get it down on paper while it was running through my head. Or even if we just wanted to have the dice be a thing but not att allocation, I could see that being a place I could slip some more customization in for certain classes (like Mystic's Bow/Pistol/Rifle specialization choice currently. Maybe when you make a Maverick you pick melee or guns and get a bigger attack die for it, or something)