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1 (6.3%)

No

1 (6.3%)

These options are not descriptive enough due to the wording of the question and the answer

10 (62.5%)

But seriously, Yes this is stupid

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No, this might be kinda cool

4 (25%)

Total Members Voted: 16

[psionic nightingale]

Just hoping for some help on my RPG that I've been working on with a small group, PM me or post here if you're interested

[psionic nightingale]

Just hoping for some help on my RPG that I've been working on with a small group, PM me or post here if you're interested

(If people are interested, I will post more information)

[Kadzar]

You haven't really posted enough information to let people know if they'd be interested, just the very basics of the genre.

[psionic nightingale]

Thats because theres not a lot of info, I have the basi rules set up, and some ideas, but I was hoping that this would be a community project.

Everything is still subject to change, right now I'm just building off of a creative spark that I had; and learning how to set most of the tedious stuff up.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

This sounds cool

[kilakan]

I've helped build a lot of role-playing worlds, games, maps and such before.  Don't see how this couldn't be cool to get into working on.  Would like a little bit more info; namely:
What you do have so far
What game system/type are you shooting for (tabletop, miniature, play by post, voice+pnp, ect)

Otherwise I'm in on helping, needed something lately to occupy myself with hah.

[Black_Company]

I'd like to know about the feature in your game. Is this imply that I am interested?

[Parsely]

Tell me more, please, so I can gauge my interest.

[Reelya]

There are a few rennaisance based RPGs already you can look at for ideas. Maelstrom was one I had in paperback, it had some nice ideas in it. Low fantasy sort of thing with magicians etc feared and persecuted.

I'd also recommend look at some of the innovations in current RPGs like D&D 5e for ways they streamlined gameplay. D&D 5e has "advantage" and "disadvantage" rather than plusses and minuses to rolls. if you have advantage: 1 in a situation, you roll two dice and discard the lowest, "disadvantage:1" you roll 2, discard the highest. Same general effect as plusses and minuses to rolls but much faster to resolve.

This could be extended to a skill system. Normally, you'd have skill percentages, rolling against the skill, then adding or subtracting modifiers to that roll, then comparing to a target value. Here's a nice idea based on some of the 5e ideas. Roll all action checks against an attribute. If the target difficulty is 0, then you just do the raw roll and succeed on attribute or lower. For each difficulty level above 0, you roll that number of extra dice and take the highest roll. Add a skill point system to that, and you subtract your skill from the difficulty. If total difficulty is now below zero, you roll the extra dice but take the lowest rolls. Probably for sanity's sake set it up so that you never need to roll more than three dice. Probably limit skill points per skill to e.g. 6 points, and you gain 1 skill point to spend per level. So a level 20 character could max out 3 skills.