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[MaximumZero]

Put it on kickstarter, hire an artist and an editor/formatter and then sell it to the unwashed masses so they can play a good RPG.

[TD1]

sounds like a great idea. Give a heads up when/if it becomes available for me (one of the unwashed masses) and i will most likely aquire it...with 
money, or other means.......

[Tsuchigumo550]

As a quick question, will there/is there multiclassing?

Not in the half-half upon embark, so to speak, but being able to take on a different job of similar taste (Gladiators use swords and shields, they multiclass as Paladins (who instead focus on defense) to learn some great defensive skills to compliment their brute force of awesome.

This is different from say a half kitsune half tentacle demon cross (Which would be devastation to anything... in horrible, horrible ways) in that it's not the species it's the class. In fact, a Red Mage is much like a multiclass in that it can heal and hurt.

Ever play Etarian Odyssey III? I never got to the multiclassing (Damn Narmer.) but it was an interesting concept.
Using it, you could have flintlock-carrying ronin (Ronin + Buccaneer) or what-have-you.

This could also be achieved by in-game methods like shrines or knowing of a profession and studying it along with your own, or done from start.

Another way of doing this would be "pure" classes: A person that learns or knows no skills but can wield any weapon, someone who learns all skills but can only use one kind of weapon, and mages that divine their own magic based on what they see in battle- two swordsman going at it may accidentally create sparks or a loud clang, giving the mage the idea of fireball or Deafening Sound or something.

[MaximumZero]

My game's system is totally classless. There's only "Profession" which only determines starting skills and equipment. If you have a thiefy-sneaky type that wants to learn to use sword and shield, or make swords and shields or even enchant equipment, there is nothing stopping them. Any character can use any skill, but they're not going to be great at it at first. Any character can use magic, but again, they aren't going to be great at it at first. Character builds are totally open.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Yes.


This makes me happy.

[MaximumZero]

100 Elemental spells...complete! Gotta just keep filling stuff in, and this'll be done before I know it!

[MaximumZero]

NEW UPDATE!

Had a good gaming session today, whilst hammering out the kinks for the details on a survival-based mode. You know, gathering resources, building stuff, exploring dead ruins, commanding minions, stuff like that.

Good times.

[FuzzyZergling]

NEW UPDATE!

Had a good gaming session today, whilst hammering out the kinks for the details on a survival-based mode. You know, gathering resources, building stuff, exploring dead ruins, commanding minions, stuff like that.

Good times.

FUZZYZERGLING REQUIRES DETAILS!
By which I mean, if you could describe anything interesting that happened, that would be great.

[penguinofhonor]

Hey, Max! I've been wondering about your little endeavor here for a while since I've been slowly brewing up a d10 system of my own, though we appear to have pretty differing goals.

You're fighting the good fight, man. I'm the kind of person who loses interest in most things after about 2000 words, so I can respect the amount of work you've put in.

[MaximumZero]

NEW UPDATE!

Had a good gaming session today, whilst hammering out the kinks for the details on a survival-based mode. You know, gathering resources, building stuff, exploring dead ruins, commanding minions, stuff like that.

Good times.

FUZZYZERGLING REQUIRES DETAILS!
By which I mean, if you could describe anything interesting that happened, that would be great.

Well, I drew up a crude map, shipwrecked my two players on an island with 8 incompetent mooks (all 0 for stats, human, unskilled, 30hp,) no equipment, and nominal survivability. I hammered out rules for npc food/water consumption, overland movement and "help" rolls (being assisted by NPCs on a particular action.) They found a dwarven mine with several traps (which killed two of the mooks,) a forge with a few materials, and a small stockpile of food, where they set up base. They also found an abandoned temple where one of their mooks converted into a priest of the Goddess of Inequity after an amazing roll. They also found a ruined keep full of "whipstitch beasts," which are basically undead chimaera, skeletons of long dead dwarven warriors, a necromancer that was totally uninterested in the players (both of whom were playing bloodless lineages), and the location of a goblin warcamp. That's where we stopped.

Hey, Max! I've been wondering about your little endeavor here for a while since I've been slowly brewing up a d10 system of my own, though we appear to have pretty differing goals.

You're fighting the good fight, man. I'm the kind of person who loses interest in most things after about 2000 words, so I can respect the amount of work you've put in.

Thanks, man. I appreciate any interest or praise I can muster. ^_^

The next thing I want to do is a Resident Evil (1) style survival horror game, just to see if it works. A bunch of stuff in the game can be eschewed in this type of game, but I'd really like to see if I can even do it. I have a hard time not turning games into, "ZOMFG, world gunna end, saev it, players!"

[ed boy]

8 incompetent mooks (all 0 for stats, human, unskilled, 30hp,)

So if 0 is incompetent, is that minimum, or can you have negative stats? What sort of range would the PCs have? Similarly, what sort of ranges of HP would the PCs have? And what are the different stats?

[MaximumZero]

0 is average NPC. You can indeed have negative stats. They were incompetent because a) they had no skills at all, and b) they kept rolling 'automatic failure' rolls.

The PCs had 48 and 27 HP, respectively. One of them was a Doppelganger, and one was a Faerie. I'll let you guess which had less HP, the amorphous blob, or the 3 inch tall floating ball of light.

To make matters worse, neither player had the right build for survival in the wilderness. They spent two whole days looking for food, and damn near starved to death before they found the small food stockpile in the mine.

Attributes are broken into four categories: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, and Skills, and each has six components. Physical is about what you'd expect, like Strength, Dexterity, Agility, etc. Mental is about the same, with Intelligence, Charisma, Willpower, etc. Spiritual contains things like Magic, Religion, Meditation and Luck. Skills hold the base skills for fighting, Stealth, Lore and Medicine.

[Tsuchigumo550]

I keep throwing my wallet at the computer screen but noting is happening.

[chaoticag]

Pffft. It's a computer, it only accepts electronic payment. Throw your credit card instead.

[MaximumZero]

Let me get the rules finished before you try to pay for it.

Once I get the rules completely done, it'll go to my friends, who will break it thoroughly, then I'll put it back together and put it up on Kickstarter, soz I can hire an artist and a book formatter.