I do like the complexity that allows one fighter for example to be built completely different from another fighter (goes for NPC's and monsters as well of course. The whole toolkit aspect.)
What I don't really like is the complexity of having torchlight cast bright light so many feet and dim light another 15 beyond that. Or your move speed is divided by this fraction when you swim and another fraction when you climb or stealth with yet another different cap if you do so as a full round action etc. etc.
I just can't remember that sort of thing without looking it up partly because it's dull. Might be less accurately simulationist but I would rather just halve movement for all those cases. Every square/5' costs double.
Heck I don't even really like counting diagonals as 1 1/2.
I could use a million other examples but you guys probably know what I mean.
Is that it for this thread? I hoped the discussion would go further especially with DnD 5th edition shaping up to be a much less complex system.
I started writing a roleplaying system of my own, using d100s as the primary dice (although not a percentile system, but something more akin to a difficulty based system similar to d20), and what I'm aiming for, is a more detailed combat system that tracks different levels of injuries and to what body parts they are done. I want it to allow for aiming at specific body parts or even organs, and make that the primary mode of fighting different monsters: stab the vampire in the heart to paralyze it, and decapitate it to kill it, hit the stone construct's arcane energy crystal to shut it down, decapitate the chimera's different heads to shut down its various abilities, destroy the cyclops's eye to bring it down, dismember the zombie to neutralize it, etc.
The way it looks it might turn into a lot of bookkeeping, as both GM and players would have to track what injuries they got where and you need to remember what the defense modifiers are for different parts and for being injured (perhaps the individual modifiers go down into their stat blocks).
I can see my project failing because of this amount of complexity but perhaps it will become something awesome too.
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I started writing a roleplaying system of my own, using d100s as the primary dice (although not a percentile system, but something more akin to a difficulty based system similar to d20), and what I'm aiming for, is a more detailed combat system that tracks different levels of injuries and to what body parts they are done. I want it to allow for aiming at specific body parts or even organs, and make that the primary mode of fighting different monsters: stab the vampire in the heart to paralyze it, and decapitate it to kill it, hit the stone construct's arcane energy crystal to shut it down, decapitate the chimera's different heads to shut down its various abilities, destroy the cyclops's eye to bring it down, dismember the zombie to neutralize it, etc.
The way it looks it might turn into a lot of bookkeeping, as both GM and players would have to track what injuries they got where and you need to remember what the defense modifiers are for different parts and for being injured (perhaps the individual modifiers go down into their stat blocks).I can see my project failing because of this amount of complexity but perhaps it will become something awesome too.
Finally someone is inventing Runequest...wait
Just kidding ;) Good Luck I hope you find a system that you like.
Finally someone is inventing Runequest...wait
Just kidding ;) Good Luck I hope you find a system that you like.
I don't know runequest very well, i took a very quick look at the BRP rules, just to see how it uses d100s (and it's percentile), but other than that i don't know anything about it.
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I's just teasing. I first played Runequest in 1979 (I still have the rulebook).
Take for example Hero Game System, if you go with the basic rules its a pretty minimalist system that grows in complexity as you choose to implement more and more rules, but when the players see those three 800 page core books, its like looking at a medusa, they freeze in their tracks and ask "what are we getting into here?"
Yeah. Champions Complete boils it down to 1 128 page book, but I think it was too little too late - even though I have the 6E core books, I love CC.
Yeah. Champions Complete boils it down to 1 128 page book, but I think it was too little too late - even though I have the 6E core books, I love CC.
I thought CC was twice that many pages.
I's just teasing. I first played Runequest in 1979 (I still have the rulebook).And had the best world of any rpg.
Yeah, Broo and Dark Trolls were great. I have a Bar Room Brawl (RQ) from White Dwarf that has so much plot and atmosphere in very few words...