Behemoth: The Land of Giants

>>50937709
So we can never ever ever never talk about normal people, but there seems to be two different schools of thought when it came to dragons.

One wants to never ever ever never define dragons because that would simply be too pedestrian.

The other seemed to want to make the Many Angled Things

>>50937709

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>>50799790

For the moment the Core mechanic is "Rivers and Lakes"

You have a dice pool of d10s, you roll it and try to find sets of numbers. The number of Dice in a set is the Tens digit, The facing number is the Ones digit.

Example
5,5,5,3,3 is a result of either 35, or 23.

Extra sets can be used to multitask, do extra manuvers in combat, or be banked for later use.
examples;

5,5,5,3,3

35 awarness check to seach for someone for weapons, 23 stealth check to not be noticed while searching for weapons

or,

35 to attack your opponent, 23 to use the momentum to shove your opponent down a canyon.

or,

35 for one roll, store the two 3s for later.
Roll 3,3,2,1,5. normally a result of 23, 12, 11, or 15. Use banked dice set to add to roll. result is now 43, 12, 11, or 15.

so what weirder kinds of giants are there?

sea giants? magma giants? space giants? giants that are focused on eating basically everything?

>>50937781

You can talk about normal peple all you like, its just they shouldn't be playable.

As for dragons, there should be an air of mystery and dread. While Behemoths can resemble animals, Dragons just plain don't belong in any ecosystem.

>>50937903
Elemental giants are a thing, and Giants can have animal features on occasion, especially if they belong to a nomadic community. Though on the whole they are basically just giant humans with supernatural abilities.

>>50937903
Giants are meant to the only PC race, and thus tend to be relatable.

>>50937943
Then having them be completely artificial or Many Angled could work just fine

>>50937903
I can imagine heavily magical communities have the weirdest giants, sometimes weird enough that you need to be told that they're giants to recognize them as such instead of weird, vaguely human monsters. Kind of like how radiation fucks up babies, but instead of stillbirths it's tentacles and eyes/mouths where they probably shouldn't be.

Just as nice as any other giant, just freakier.

>>50938062
Well I think there should definitely be "weirder" giants. I think the whole world could do with being a little weirder, but have it so the "central" landmass/nations are more comparatively normal and things get stranger the more you radiate outwards. The south gets tribal and exotic, the northern peoples are stark and calculating, the east is twisting madness (Thar be dragons) and the west is nomadic mystic spiritual bullshit. The Giants sinply reflect those trends

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>>50938062

I personally dont like this, For one, Magic isn't nearly as pervasive as most fantasy settings. Two, Giants are physical reperesentations of the community. If you have mutant giants you have a severely warped community.

>>50938184
Oh most definitely.

>>50937837

I think the primary attributes should be

Might
Agility
Willpower
Vitality
Influence

You've got two sets of Skills
Combat skills
Social skills.

>>50938772

SHould we have one pool of Skill ranks for Combat and NonCombat skills? Or a pool for each one?

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y'all need to develop the giants' magical powers.

>>50941296

Well the way Mana would work in game is that you have pool of Mana points, you can either reduce the maximum amout of Mana for a passive benifit Like boosting your Main Attributes or an ability to ignore wound penalties, or save that for active special abilities Like throwing fireballs, in combat boosts or supernatural martial arts.

>>50942466

You start with 20 Mana and you can use it to either increase your stats by one per 5.

Or Spend them for special combat ablites, and they get stronger the more Mana you use on them.

Passive benifits have to be made while in your Community and take at least 24 hours to apply.

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Alright folks i gotta go to work, Try to keep this thing alive.

Maybe define the Combat and Social Skills here. >>50938772

>>50944612
Bump

>>50944612
Combat
block
dodge
Feint
manhandle
Outward force (spell casting)

Noncombat
awareness
steath
intimidate
diplomacy
bluff
craft
history
ritualism

>>50948295
Underwater basket weaving

Ahh yes, the moment mechanics get thrown around. Discussion dies

>>50949582
You can talk about fluff too

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>>50950218

so what kinds of giant magic are there?

>>50953737

Giant magic is essentially sorcerry. The kind of stuff you expect wizards to throw around in your standard fantasy setting. Nobody else can do it.

Whats more, they can use this magic internally to boost their physical capablites.

So its kinda like Chi, Chakra, or some other thing.

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>>50954825

can we get more information on the Behemoth tamers?

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One last bump and if nothing happens i'm letting it die.

Would behemoths just be giants to communities of animals?

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>>50959053

Behemoths are essentially "Nature's Revenge". When ever the Ecosytem feels threatened, for instance, excessive logging, or over hunting, or even just a natural disaster. A behemoth is born. Its a knee jerk reaction in an attempt to swing things back in natures favor. Granted the "when ever nature's in danger" clause is very loose, and can even trigger itself. like if a new species moves in with no natural predators.

They usually go about stamping out civilization, in order for it to revert back to the normal chaos of nature.