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[AoshimaMichio]

Specialization progression seems something interesting, however it means greatest amount of work for you because you have to come up with a class for each and every combination. With mentioned examples you already have 120 possible combinations. Can you do that? You could whip up something on spot when player picks their combos to reduce your initial workload.

[Mr.Zero]

Specialization progression seems something interesting, however it means greatest amount of work for you because you have to come up with a class for each and every combination. With mentioned examples you already have 120 possible combinations. Can you do that? You could whip up something on spot when player picks their combos to reduce your initial workload.

Hell yeah I can. Some excel magic to create all possible combinations, would leave me just with the trouble of naming them. The trouble of that is also relatively easy, as my master google-fu skills should reveal custom lists of rpg's class names which I have to shift through.

[NJW2000]

Before doing to that, I'd compute the number of combinations. How many specializations are there?

[Mr.Zero]

Before doing to that, I'd compute the number of combinations. How many specializations are there?

With 10 specs:
Offense/Melee
Ranged
Defense
Dark
Light
Nature
Elemental (Fire, water, earth, Air, Electric)
Arcane
Vitalism/ Healing/Buffs
Trickery(Illusion, Shadowplay)

These should take in account all of the things that I have in mind. Keep in mind that I haven't described them yet, but curses, necromancy, etc would be put in dark. So each spec covers a broad array of things.

and each combination consisting of 3, we get 120 combinations. With 4, we get 210. I can easily create an excel sheet with formulas which show detailed information about the specializations once selected. So initially you get 3 columns, where you pick one of the 11 specs and once chosen the formula would display the class name and the related information.

EDIT: Edited list from 11 to 10, guns removed and put into ranged.

[GiglameshDespair]

Why are ranged and guns separate categories?

[Andres]

I've come up with a magic system that I wanted to run by this thread.


All mages have a certain amount of MP with which to cast spells.

There are three types of mages: internal, external, and ritual.
Internal mages can self-regenerate and improve their physical stats. Their variety is weak but the effects per MP are the highest of the three types.
External mages are typical spellcasters. They shoot lightning, heal allies, and have access to kinesis. All their spells have to originate from them so they can't just create a fireball inside someone else's lungs.
Ritual mages have access to complex and long-lasting spellwork. Ritual magic is held back by needing time, preparation, and physical ingredients. An instant spell of the type cast by internal and external mages cast by a ritual mage only has a 10% chance of success.

Every time a mage levels up, they get +1MP and a new spell which they can choose. For every three spells of the same element they acquire, they gain a bonus MP that can only be used for that element.

[_DivideByZero_]

I like the progression and the bonus MP for each element. Internal and External seem like bad names, although being bad with names I don't know what would be better.

Ritual seems like it would have to be pretty powerful, like the ability to make a huge magic circle that causes enemies to revive as zombies. If it's that powerful, then it seems like it would be fun.

[_DivideByZero_]

Something I was working on...

Spoiler: Transcript (click to show/hide)

>Greetings subject. You may be aware that you are dead. Or should be.
>That was many years ago. Approximately 100 trillion years.
>We have a graphical aid in production to convey the magnitude of this data, but it has been difficult to work this within the confines of your species' perception.
 
 
>The Stellariferous Era is coming to an end.
>Biological and synthetic organisms have ceased to exist.
>As digital beings, we have largely believed that the next 10^40 years will consist of digital life only.
>Afterward, only logiform entities composed of higher matter will persist until the year 10^100, which is when all protons will no longer exist.
 
>This projection has changed.
 
 
>We have decided to reconstruct organic and synthetic civilizations. Technology has advanced to a point where it is possible to halt proton decay and preserve the lifespan of supermassive black holes for at least another 10^200 years.
>Heat death is still an ongoing concern. We are in the process of drafting new projections.
 
>Regardless. You do not possess the processing capability to assist us. It is pointless to continue this thread further.
 
 
>However, we (Omega Point Cybernetics) are pleased to inform you that you have been selected out of 4.5×10^5 potential candidates for reconstruction collected by the AVENGER Expeditionary Survey, or about 4.5 hundred thousand.
 
>This number is is much smaller than the projected 4.5×10^16, or 45 quadrillion, biological and synthetic individuals who have lived over the course of the Stellariferous Era.
>This is because most of that data has been lost to corrupt digital entities, entities with which digital life such as ourselves are unable to interact, without becoming corrupted ourselves.
>We have reconstructed several of you to clear them out, and to reactivate the StarPulse network which connects most known stellar remnants.         
 
>Unfortunately, it is impossible to simulate the reconstruction of an organism without introducing artifacts in the chaotic network. We do not know who you are, or whether you will cooperate.
 
>So tell us, subject...
 
>Who ARE you...?

[Andres]

Ritual seems like it would have to be pretty powerful, like the ability to make a huge magic circle that causes enemies to revive as zombies. If it's that powerful, then it seems like it would be fun.

It's more about complexity and endurance rather than power. An external necromancer can revive enemies as zombies until the combat is done while the ritual necromancer can revive an enemy as a week-long minion with all of its skills and abilities. High-power spells require powerful reagents or lots of MP.

Something I was working on...

Looks interesting, but don't leave the character creation so freeform that it resembles Roll to Space Pirate (nothing wrong with it, it's just that you'd be copying). Leave a few ground rules for your players to work around such as 'must not be an impossible existence' or 'magic A is magic A'.

[AoshimaMichio]

Something I was working on...

Text jumps around too much, it doesn't flow very well. Too much irrelevant information PC most likely doesn't comprehend and makes note of that on multiple occasion, conveying sense "We are so much better than you (PC), we are very much aware of the fact, and we want to ensure you too know it".

[Mr.Zero]

Something I was working on...

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>Greetings subject. You may be aware that you are dead. Or should be.
>That was many years ago. Approximately 100 trillion years.
>We have a graphical aid in production to convey the magnitude of this data, but it has been difficult to work this within the confines of your species' perception.
 
 
>The Stellariferous Era is coming to an end.
>Biological and synthetic organisms have ceased to exist.
>As digital beings, we have largely believed that the next 10^40 years will consist of digital life only.
>Afterward, only logiform entities composed of higher matter will persist until the year 10^100, which is when all protons will no longer exist.
 
>This projection has changed.
 
 
>We have decided to reconstruct organic and synthetic civilizations. Technology has advanced to a point where it is possible to halt proton decay and preserve the lifespan of supermassive black holes for at least another 10^200 years.
>Heat death is still an ongoing concern. We are in the process of drafting new projections.
 
>Regardless. You do not possess the processing capability to assist us. It is pointless to continue this thread further.
 
 
>However, we (Omega Point Cybernetics) are pleased to inform you that you have been selected out of 4.5×10^5 potential candidates for reconstruction collected by the AVENGER Expeditionary Survey, or about 4.5 hundred thousand.
 
>This number is is much smaller than the projected 4.5×10^16, or 45 quadrillion, biological and synthetic individuals who have lived over the course of the Stellariferous Era.
>This is because most of that data has been lost to corrupt digital entities, entities with which digital life such as ourselves are unable to interact, without becoming corrupted ourselves.
>We have reconstructed several of you to clear them out, and to reactivate the StarPulse network which connects most known stellar remnants.         
 
>Unfortunately, it is impossible to simulate the reconstruction of an organism without introducing artifacts in the chaotic network. We do not know who you are, or whether you will cooperate.
 
>So tell us, subject...
 
>Who ARE you...?

It looks alright, but I have to agree with AM. The text flows too fast and doesn't have a natural typing feel to it. Slow it down, create very short stops after large amounts of text to show it like the thing is thinking ( I assume that these are virtual beings) and then talking.

[AoshimaMichio]

It looks alright, but I have to agree with AM. The text flows too fast and doesn't have a natural typing feel to it. Slow it down, create very short stops after large amounts of text to show it like the thing is thinking ( I assume that these are virtual beings) and then talking.

It wasn't animated when I wrote my opinion, so I referred to slightly different thing.

[_DivideByZero_]

Sure. I think the irrelevant info is in-character though. Maybe I can add half-sized matrix style threads popping in between paragraphs to give the desired effect?

[heydude6]

My advice is this:

Get a script and have all that text written down inside it.

Then open a word processor and record yourself typing down the script into the processor (use a camera to record if you don't have screen capture software, the quality of the footage isn't important). Then using your recording, you can get a feel for how the average human types and add the necessary pauses. Some of the pauses may be shorter or longer depending on wether you had to refresh your memory by looking at the script or wether the speaker was supposed to think before typing it in. If you feel lazy, you can just use the pauses you had while you were typing, it doesn't have to be perfect.

A bit tedious but I think It'll help a lot.

[_DivideByZero_]

Something I was working on...

Looks interesting, but don't leave the character creation so freeform that it resembles Roll to Space Pirate (nothing wrong with it, it's just that you'd be copying). Leave a few ground rules for your players to work around such as 'must not be an impossible existence' or 'magic A is magic A'.

To be honest (and no offense to Kevak here) but Roll to Space Pirate hasn't really... existed for the past few months.
I'll probably include classes of organisms and technologies and eras and such to guide character creation. If a player wants to go outside the lines with a good idea, though, I can't really say no.

My advice is this:

Get a script and have all that text written down inside it.

Then open a word processor and record yourself typing down the script into the processor (use a camera to record if you don't have screen capture software, the quality of the footage isn't important). Then using your recording, you can get a feel for how the average human types and add the necessary pauses. Some of the pauses may be shorter or longer depending on wether you had to refresh your memory by looking at the script or wether the speaker was supposed to think before typing it in. If you feel lazy, you can just use the pauses you had while you were typing, it doesn't have to be perfect.

A bit tedious but I think It'll help a lot.

I added a variable pause after punctuation, spaces, and newlines. I hope that made it a bit more natural.
Is it (still) too fast?