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So, I've been fucking around with some ideas for a semi-light rp system.
I threw together some basic mechanics, and would be delighted if anyone could point me to the most obvious retardations I have already written in.
The plan is to add more mechanics after I'm sure the old one's don't have some really glaring faults in them, and maybe someday arrive at a finished game.
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Also, even though the system is very barebones, if people are interested, I could run a short scenario with it here.
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Idea is to end up with a handy system that can handle a variety of things, original idea was actually urban fantasy, that has a lot of focus on the characters, and where destroying your own character, bit by bit, would be fun and rewarding.
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>>54478236
2d6+bonus contested isn't exactly a new idea.
This has been done well a thousand times. Maybe you can draft a mediocre version of it, without extensive playtesting. But why?
Just use one of the dozen systems already doing exactly this.
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>>54479221
>This has been done well a thousand times. Maybe you can draft a mediocre version of it, without extensive playtesting. But why?
>Just use one of the dozen systems already doing exactly this.
Do you mean 2d6+bonus, or in general the ideas I've presented?
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>>54479221
>>54479341
Other Ideas I have for the system is to have "Descriptors", a sentence long descriptions of important aspects of the character, which affect positively and negatively the character's performance in situations, and to build a system where skills a character has invested in can be customized to fill in more easily purposes of other skills.
Also to build a highly modular magical system, and give even more importance to the descriptions players give for their actions.
Sure all of this has been done before, but I don't think I've ever seen any of them in a single system? If there is some system like that please tell, so I can take a look at it and maybe abandon what I have here.
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>>54479569
Have you seen apocalypse world? /tg/ has mixed opinions about powered by apocalypse in general but it is very close to what you seem to be going for.
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>>54479925
I actually haven't, how strictly does it stick to the setting?
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>>54479925
Took a quick look, seems fun, though in general I have a great distaste for class-based systems.
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>>54479925
Is there something inherently bad about it, since the opinion is so mixed?
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>>54478236
as long as you aren't playing D&D, you have my sword, OP.
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>>54480873
It's new and different.
This triggers the grognard.
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>>54480895
Well
Out of all the games I've played, various editions of DnD are my least favourite.
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Gonna bump this thread one more time, hoping someone has some useful critique on what I've build so far.
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