Crom, Kobold King @vahnj@awoo.space

Got home did bunch of chores and now the boy wants us to watch old 50s and 60s sex ed movies omg

@blackle@dev.glitch.social blackle. You are truly the voice of a jorted generation

Had too much caffeine yesterday now I don't exist instead in my friends' psychic projection of me

In short I'm tired and gay

@SamIO oh i had this idea once too! like your maximum stat is the measurement of health but your usage of the stat expends the pool, which comes back quickly enough

i didn't like the idea enough to try to design a system around it cuz it needs too much playtesting (which im not v keen cuz no real group). this one kind of grabbed me cause it fits the narrative of "high adventure" of D&D but brings it into a much different fantasy so that's why i got carried away lol

@lizardsquid yea didn't FATE do something like that? i really haven't thought about my approach to it yet but i've come up with enough rules that it's shareable i feel

@SamIO not only do you take damage to your stats you also expend your stats to make rolls

so it has this double burn effect

i like the idea of your stats being also a reflection of your health but the idea of *also* being a measurement of stamina sucks

@SamIO same reason the average is 10 for AC in D&D

@SamIO most common number combination on 2d6

i really like numenara's idea of your stats also being your health pool but it felt too weak in practice

i feel like yanking it up towards d&d specs while also trimming down the categories of damage helps make it feel less overwhelming

i also feel like 3d6k2 is a neat target and works better with an advantage/disadvantage system than just rolling 2d20k2

i know some people like 3d6 as a replacement for d20 but i find it *too* centered a bell curve, so

anyway that's as far as i got

also as far as magic goes i definitely want there to be a distinction between physical and personal magic - so like if you're a barbarian channeling your ancestors, your magic might be power and influence based, as opposed to a paladin's magic which would be fortitude and bravery

as far as skills go, i want the mechanisms of skills to be sort of a specific focus on a stat, something similar to 5e but with more characteristic bonuses than just "you gain your proficiency to the skill"

oh i didn't explain

for challenges, you take the rank of the challenge and add 7

this includes for targeting an enemy or defending against their attack

i haven't super nailed down what the feel should be for pvp; probably just an opposed roll with stat bonuses totaled together.

i also want the advantage/disadvantage system to be in there

damage is focused around physical vs. personality stats, split evenly based upon what's hit

damage is dealt based upon the aspect of your attack

i haven't drilled into the skill system yet

think i've got a tl;dr set of rules for the system i'm thinking about

power, agility, fortitude, bravery, cunning, influence

you also have separate extra stats in offense/defense to portray your combat style

rolls are 2d6+stat against challenges, 2d6+stat you're attacking+offense if you're making an offensive action, 2d6+stat you're defending with+defense if you're being attacked.

every weapon has one physical and one mental stat it targets

@JTE@the.resize.club daww

@Axi it was okay but the gm was kind of a dick who i ended up stopping being friends with eventually

it's fun to be a bunch of kobolds trying to scrabble past one another though XD

i played a trap-setting class, i think there's a rogue archetype that gets access to ranger traps or something. it was really great

@Axi all kobold campaigns are great

i've never got to run one but i got to play an all-kobold one-shot once

@JTE@the.resize.club this was the first kobold i played

the best part is screaming "WHEEEEE" at the table and it's perfectly normal and accepted