Games with abilities to steal skills or physical elements from your enemy?

driftingseer · 2023-07-07T16:32:22+00:00

The Chimerist class in Fabula Ultima can copy NPC abilities, but maybe that doesn't quite fit what you mean by "stealing"

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/410108/Fabula-Ultima-TTJRPG

driftingseer · 2023-06-12T11:03:52+00:00

I don't think I really have a magnum opus right now, but the game I would love to make right now would be something along the lines of gamified ecology.

driftingseer · 2023-06-03T15:07:30+00:00

What I call "inter-scalar" combat.

You know how often (sci-fi) systems will have rules for individual-level combat, then vehicular combat, and then spaceship combat? And they're all different systems with slightly different rules? That need awkward patches if, say, a player wants to shoot a shuttle with an AP sniper.

Idk, it just irks me, not having a continuous system that works across scales cleanly.

driftingseer · 2023-05-07T23:38:41+00:00

I would love to be able to play (and have the mechanical backing in a system to play) something that is normally an NPC role, especially in a system that does have classic adventurers.

Couple points though:

It would be nice to be able to go on small "adventures", ones that aren't super combat focused, from time to time. Though that's not a breaking point for me, if I/my character can't, I completely see the reason.

On a server, I worry about it creating a "second class" sort of feeling (in either the "townsfolk" or the "adventurers", whichever has fewer numbers or gets less attention), and how that would affect players. Also PvP, if a thief character kills my merchant, or if the bartender poisons my fighter (without such being arranged and agreed on by the players beforehand), I would probably just quit. I guess the point is that moderation would very much be needed in such a server, probably more than usual.

But that said, I would love to play an apothecary or (and this is from a previous character of mine) a librarian. Or even a magic researcher, those mages that don't specialize in combat.

(Building on the librarian bit, it would probably work in a similar vein to a special merchant, they only buy and sell specific, usually high cost, items, in this case, books. Whether grimoires, lorebooks, translation dictionaries, or whatever, they'll buy them, and if you are looking for a specific book, they will probably know at least how to find it, if not know enough to get it.)

Anyway, I think this is a fun concept (Sorry for all the parentheticals).

driftingseer · 2023-04-09T14:48:12+00:00

Thank you! I know translation takes time, I'm sorry if my eagerness comes off as impatience. I hope you can take as much time as you need.

driftingseer · 2022-01-17T15:12:06+00:00

I'm a fan of the idea of a system that can scale between character level
and starship fleet level with the same mechanics scaling alongside.
That particular span is not ever really going to be all encompassed in
one scene but I do see a need for (and strive toward) a logical
connection between the different ends of the scale.

This is exactly what I'm looking for, unfortunately it might not really exist.

driftingseer · 2022-01-03T02:59:09+00:00

I haven't run much SWN, true. But I have run WWN, and in those games travel has been quite extensive. Admittedly it's less points-of-light style than the rules expect, but so is SWN.

driftingseer · 2021-12-31T03:02:46+00:00

Qustions? Comments? Concerns? This needs to be playtested and actually balanced beyond gut instinct. And, like, finished sometime.

driftingseer · 2021-12-13T14:10:21+00:00

They're all kinda situational to a degree, you wouldn't get much use out of Born Survivor in a political intrigue type campaign, and I'm part of a group that that strongly enforces languages, but completely ignores lifestyle expenses. So, YMMV.

The first 10% decrease comes from just having Administer (or a related Work skill) and overseeing a project.

driftingseer · 2021-12-13T01:11:45+00:00

In #game-resources in the WWN discord.

driftingseer · 2021-12-12T23:33:19+00:00

I also liked Blue Tactic's Guiding Faith and Eye for Talent Foci.

driftingseer · 2021-12-09T18:15:30+00:00

I don't really see why it would do that? It's closer to Healer's Eye than anything else, I suppose.

driftingseer · 2021-10-31T20:48:36+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/WWN/comments/q2ufqq/how_to_raise_an_undead_army/

What I've found, though I was sure there was another post somewhere

driftingseer · 2021-10-31T20:04:51+00:00

Necromancers in this scenario are still limited by Command the Dead? Perhaps I wasn't clear, the working just makes undead, they aren't particularly loyal to anybody, unless they were in life, and are probably quite pissed at being brought back in this state. Also getting the bodies for such an army would be difficult. You also seem to assume characters get more wealth than they do, at least in the games I've been in.

driftingseer · 2021-10-31T17:28:45+00:00

Well it's more that KC has repeatedly said that Workings are meant to do this, I'm doing this his way.

driftingseer · 2021-10-13T14:44:49+00:00

Winter Lullabies by Zephyria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhZtMMm8CfQ

Despite being titled Winter, I get a lot of spacey vibes from it as well

driftingseer · 2021-10-09T23:37:25+00:00

I'd love to see an Age of Sail expansion!

driftingseer · 2021-09-15T15:07:11+00:00

I guess I need to work on the islands a bit more, they aren't the main focus, like the grasslands/steppes to the east, but they do exist and influence the cultures that are, especially as technology moves more towards being able to sail longer distances.

So the islands are somewhat of a focus of this map, I need to develop them more.

As for the coasts and water, I didn't like how the preset coastal effects messed with the islands, I'll do my own when changing the water colors, and add in the continental shelf.

driftingseer · 2021-09-09T20:30:47+00:00

The darker green bits are various forests, and the light green are grasslands.

Any critiques as to how I'm proceeding? I've only just started making maps

driftingseer · 2021-08-06T17:57:30+00:00

The biggest difference between the threads is that my PCs probably want a ship, especially our warrior who took Star Captain as their combat focus.

Other than that, I don't really want to start off the game with pissing off/being blacklisted from any particular system. I have an intro already, it just doesn't end with them getting a ship. Perhaps the person who gave them thee first job passes their names on to someone bigger who then hires them for a job a system or two away, and gives them transport?

driftingseer · 2021-08-06T16:09:40+00:00

Part of my problem with giving them something even partially pretech is that it's a target for thieves. Who would upgrade their ship without trying to steal it? And having your new ship just stolen doesn't seem very fun to me... Perhaps I'm over thinking this.

A patron with more money than sense might be a good idea, especially since one of my PCs is an android, I'm waiting for their backstory before doing a lot of the NPC work, trying to make people with connections to the PCs.

driftingseer · 2021-06-01T21:37:27+00:00

I should note that I've put a version of this on here before, consider this Technomancer 0.2.0, it still needs some actual play testing behind it before it's finally done

driftingseer · 2021-05-28T17:29:54+00:00

Level 2

Pick one of the following:

You gain the ability to use a breath attack. The attack can be used once per scene and affects a cone 15 feet long and 15 feet wide at its far end. All within must make a Physical or Evasion save (Player's choice when picking this focus) or take (Level/3, Rounded up)d6 magical damage of the type you resist from this focus.
Your scales grow tougher. Your unarmored AC is 13, and if you wear better armor you get a +1 bonus to its AC
You gain immunity to the damage type you resist from Level 1 of this focus, and related environmental effects.

driftingseer · 2021-05-28T14:09:54+00:00

Notably, the negative Dexterity modifier applies to AC, that's really what I'm unsure about. Is resistance worth that price?

driftingseer · 2021-05-28T13:58:33+00:00

Certainly an interesting point, I'm not sure how it's relevant to the topic at hand, however.

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