Skills

Pinkerton has proposed a system like this:

Originally Posted by Pinkerton Walsh

Sure, but we have to expand both traits and skills greatly

Scale

1-10= Bad
11-20= So-So
21-30= Regular
31-40= Fine
41-50= Good
51-60= Very Good
61-70= Excellent
71-80= Great
81-90= Master
91-100= Godlike

Some Skill ideas:

Skills

Archery; (Archery Rolls)
Melee Attack (Melee attack rolls)
Melee Defense (Melee defense rolls)
Strategy (General Battle Rolls)
Speech (Diplomatic Rolls)
Income (+ Money every year)
Defense (+ Defense rolls in battles)
Attack (+ Defense rolls in battles)

And I also think we should have traits. Every char would have 2 good traits and one bad

Traits Ideas

Agressive Leader: +5 Strategy,+5 Attack
Defensive Leader: +5 Strategy,+5 Defense
Swordsman: +10 Melee Combat
Archer: +10 Archery
Strategist: +10 Strategy
Goldmaker: +10 Income

Bad Traits Ideas

Rusher: -10 defense
Craven: -10 attack
Bad Swordsman: -10 Melee Combat
Bad Archer: -10 Archery

Some Traits can be obtained during some quests. For example, if Barahir managed to slain Glaurung he would get something like this

Glaurunga

Glaurunga (Slayer of Glaurung); This man has slained Glarung, the Great Worm, the first dragon

+20 Meele Combat ( or +20 Archery, it depends how did you slain it),
+10 Strategy

Maybe if you have some items it will bring your skill up, For example

Items

Elven Bow: +10 archery
Dwarven Mail: +10 Melee Defense

And if you get for example the Dragon-helm (or some epic item) they will have unique skills,

Dragon-Helm

Dragonhelm: +35 Melee Defense, immunity towards fire

Please give your opinion, and possibly add to this.

Smithing Skill!

Would evil players have skills?

Yep.

Interesting

I plan to build evil character skills to correspond with Beleriand character skills.

Now here's a good question:
What shall we do with characters who start out strong in the start date?
Most of the kings and lords picked are as thus.

For the sake of a balanced game I propose only a small trait, like for example

"Son of Feanor", This character is a son of Feanor, and therefor is bonded to the Oath of Feanor
+5 strategy +5 ofensive melee

Good solution.

Yet also being a son of Feanor was detriment. They were hotheaded and cursed and shunned.

bonded to the Oath of Feanor

If ever a Silmaril leaves Angbad they are forced to retrieve it, be it from enemy or friend

That is true.

It's just an example Delenda.

Finarfin's sons will get something like extra patience and some charisma boost,
while Fingolfin's sons will get more stalwart bonuses.
I think Feanor's sons will get charge bonuses and "taking the initiative" bonuses.

In this case, since "Sons of Feanor" is more of the name of a house rather than just literally only his immediate sons, any sons of these characters will be considered part of the House of Feanor.
Same with the other house-based traits.
Other characters that are more stand-alone will get their corresponding bonuses too.

What will thingol get? Defence? Seeing as he doesn't really move from Doriath?

He'll get something to do with him being the only Sindarin elf to go to Valinor, and some other stuff.