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[ed boy]

That sounds very good.

[MaximumZero]

Vehicle/vehicle combat is kind of clunky right now, as it's mostly based on a Navigator's skills. I may include, "Ship Combat", "Siege Combat" and whatnot in the Proficiencies later. I'm kind of torn.

[sonerohi]

What is lethality like in your view? Me personally, I've always been a fan of games where even the super powerful guys are capable of being one shotted by a level 1 guy, because crossbow bolts never stop being deadly in my mind. Will players always/never be squishy, and will they grow much in that regard or be fairly stagnant?

[MaximumZero]

Well, first, there are no levels. People accrue skills and attributes as they grow and gain power, but just about no character that my players have come up with has been able to overcome a battleship or a thousand man army by hand. This doesn't mean it can't happen, just that it'd be very hard, very time consuming, and require a lot of dedicated play.

Second, a sword is pointy no matter who is wielding it. Absolutely any character can get lucky enough, or have a good enough strategy, to kill a VIP character. Now, the odds of that happening may border on the absurd sometimes, but that still happens once in a while. I had a player one-shot a Chimaera with "Sandblast" a basic-level earth spell that's only supposed to deal 20 damage, max, out of the Chimaera's 300+ Health. He just kept rolling 10s on his dice. BTW, I only use d10s for this game, and if you roll a 10 on any die roll, you take that 10 and then add the next roll. If you get another 10, it accumulates, potentially forever. OTOH, a 1 is an automatic failure, no matter your skill level. So, if Boss rolls a 1 on his Dodge, and n00b rolls a 10, 10, 10, 4 on his Accuracy, n00b will probably hit Boss. You can extrapolate from there.

Third, most players fall into the trap of overspecializing. It's very easy to do. In fact, to become a master at anything, you really have to spend all your time doing that and almost nothing else. So, a jack-of-all-trades may hit that weak spot on an overspecialized character very easily.

Fourth, all players have an elemental weakness. Yes, it's Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors from tvtropes. I'll spare you the link. So, Überwarrior may be decked out in Orichalcum Plate Mail, wielding a Flaming Greatsword of Doom, and still get taken down by a student wizard because he knows an Intermediate Water spell.

Lots of ways to keep the playing field even.

[niltrias]

I'm interested.  I too have a paper and pencil RPG that has been in dev for over a decade.  I have simply run out of people who are interested in PnP games....I still work on it from time to time.

...it might be two decades now, come to think of it.

[MaximumZero]

LONG LIVE DICE! DOWN WITH PENS!

[Darvi]

Crippling over-specialisation? Awesome, I don't like games that punish you for trying to cover several bases.

[chaoticag]

The system does sound interesting so far. How far along is it? Plenty of systems that need to be fleshed out, or is it mostly going through exploit closing?

[MaximumZero]

Crippling over-specialisation? Awesome, I don't like games that punish you for trying to cover several bases.

Mind you, there's so much there that you very easily can wind up trying to cover too many bases to be good at anything at all by the time your other players have hit a decent amount of skill.

The system does sound interesting so far. How far along is it? Plenty of systems that need to be fleshed out, or is it mostly going through exploit closing?

Right now, I'm doing a total re-write. This is total rewrite 5. This time, instead of just making a game for my friends and watching them tear it to pieces because it's totally unbalanced but still fun, I want to make a huge, sprawling game for everyone (that I then watch my friends tear to pieces because it's fun.)

[MaximumZero]

40 Elemental spells down...60 to go. Then 100 Ritual (non-elemental) spells.

Edit: 50 done!

[klingon13524]

Will there be a tribal/nomadic faction? What stat bonuses and/or penalties do these "Mongols" get if so?

[The Unicorn Killer]

It's nice, but the formatting of your post leaves much to be desired. You don't have to indent that much.

I like indentations...

[MaximumZero]

Will there be a tribal/nomadic faction? What stat bonuses and/or penalties do these "Mongols" get if so?

Mostly, Goblins and Elves fill that role. You can also find the Children of Mannusis (the God of Justice), which are a pseudo-tribal community with a government based entirely on melee combat.

It's nice, but the formatting of your post leaves much to be desired. You don't have to indent that much.

I like indentations...

They pushed everything off the page because I screwed up the formatting of my post. Indents are great, but not when they make it so that you can't read anything.

[Kadzar]

Hey, nothing came up in a search and I can't recall it ever being mentioned, nor I can't be arsed to read through the thread again, but are there martial arts or fighting styles in this game? Something so that two characters using the same weapon could fight in very different ways?

[MaximumZero]

To a point. There are proficiencies for combat, and they can be broken down into specializations, but it's nothing specific like Nito-Ryu, Muay Thai, Judo, or Ninjutsu. On top of that, anyone can use any weapon, but they will be more effective in the hands of someone trained with it and suiting their Attributes. (Example, a Rapier is much more deadly in the hands of a quick character than is a Bastard Sword.) On top of that, every character is unique in their combinations of Attributes and skills, so that even if you have two fencers with rapiers fighting, one may be more prone to hiding and ambushing, counter-attacking, stealing the opponent's weapon, throwing secondary weapons, gaining extra attacks, calling down divine wrath, using Ki or Magic, or even stopping the fight completely with wordplay. There are lots of modifiers when it comes to combat.