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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 6:40:28 GMT
Off and on for several years, I've been developing my own TRPG, called Core 10. I sank a lot of time into it this week, and it's approaching an alpha-testable phase. I have some pretty lofty design goals, and it's still a long ways off from being done, but I thought I'd share with my fellow blockheads. Here are some of the principles that went into its development: - Actions that call for a dice roll should be more heavily weighted toward a character's aptitudes than the dice. Doesn't it piss you off when your master thief rolls a 2 on lock picking, and the oafish barbarian tries and succeeds on 15? At its foundation, the system and difficulty ratings are very similar to D20 SRD, but uses a D10 instead, with attributes and skill contributing much more to the range of possible outcomes. Many actions (excluding combat stuff) will fall into Trivial and Impossible ranges if you have high scores related to performing the action.
- Classless. Though you can build a character that resembles a stock RPG class by choosing the appropriate skills, attributes, and feats. In fact, there are builder systems for most areas of character creation, including the creation of unique races.
- Tactical, reactive combat. Action economy relies on a pool of points from which all actions draw. For comparison, 5e uses the action, movement, and a possible bonus action and reaction, and these constitute separate resources in an action economy. In Core 10, all those types of actions draw from the same resource. All characters have a lot of options for taking actions when it is not their turn (reactions).
- Procedural spell building. Final goal is to be able to have a system that can generate millions of spells from about 50 basic spell templates, such as Teleportation, High Intensity Energy (i.e. fireball!), and Healing, which are modified by selecting ranges, durations, and area, among other variables.
- Magic vs. Martial -- magic users normally require multiple turns to pop off big effects, but the results can turn (or end) a battle quickly. They still have access to "cantrip" type magic, but mages are game changers if not neutralized before major spells go off. They are exceedingly vulnerable to interruption while casting. A magic user is absolutely overpowered against martial characters in terms of potential damage, but all that potential is wasted if you can't get a spell off because the barbarian is smashing your face in.
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Post by lasersniper on Sept 23, 2015 11:55:49 GMT
From what you describe it sounds pretty cool. How do skills work though. Do you have a trained skill point system that the D10 adds to? What about magics and I like the template system. oooooooooooh boy I should stop trying to write. 24 hours no sleep is no good. Will come back latersssssszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 17:41:15 GMT
Skills appear in three categories, each with subcategories: Martial, Magical, and Utility
Martial skills further divide into weapon types and fighting styles. Weapon types are projectile, thrown, unarmed, crushing/cleaving, piercing, and slashing. Fighting styles include defensive, dueling, two-weapon, two-handed weapon, ranged precision, and ranged barrage. If you have two skills that apply to one attack (ex: crushing/cleaving and two-handed skill levels, and attacking with a great axe) you use only the higher skill level when making an attack, but you gain the benefits unlocked at each skill level for both skills.
Magical skill levels determine how powerful an effect (before variables) you can cast, and allow you to treat higher magnitudes of specific variables as lower. Hard to explain briefly until you read the magic and skills section.
Utility skills include natural, social, technical, and knowledge skills. Basically everything that isn't related directly to fighting or spellcasting. However, my goal is to have many, if not most, skills have a combat application, similar to D&D 4e.
You gain points to apply to skills every level. At the moment I'm treating Martial and Magical as separate from Utility in terms of how many points you get per level, and at character creation.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 17:41:40 GMT
Also, I haven't figured out where shield and armor proficiency fit in yet. They'll probably be a martial skill.
Anyway, on any given application of the skill, you'll add the skill level to the appropriate attribute, add the result of a d10, and compare it to a target difficulty. Ex:
Jon has 5 skill levels in Lock picking (Expert), and a Focus of 6 (above average). He is attempting to pick a difficult lock, Target Difficulty 15. He must roll 4 or higher to pick the lock. If the lock were average difficulty (12) or lower, he could choose not to roll, because the task is trivial to him - that is, he would succeed even if he rolled a 1. If he had superior quality lockpicks, he would have a boon on the attempt, and would roll two dice, using the higher result. If the lock was rusty, he would have a bane and roll two dice, using the lower result. If he had superior lockpicks and the lock was rusty, the bane and boon cancel, and he rolls 1 die normally.
If Tom has no skill levels in Lock picking and a focus of 3 he can't even attempt to pick a difficult lock, because his combined attribute and skill levels are more than 10 below the Target Difficulty, rendering the attempt impossible. However, he can spend a luck point and try anyway, though luck points are very valuable resources in this system. He would succeed on a roll of 10, but gains a bane for having no skill levels, and the roll ignores all boons. Essentially, he can hit it on a percentile roll 100. If he had at least one skill level, he wouldn't gain that bane, and could hit it on a roll of 10.
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