A little bit of everything

Okies, this is a little bit of everything just as the title says. I’ve been thinking about this and that and doing this and that today and the last few days when I haven’t written anything here. Today I’ve finally managed to take some time to do some blogging so well, I hope some of this is entertaining…

Today I’ve been to a wedding. It wasn’t fun, but it wasn’t boring either. As always I can see things I can learn and benefit from when I’m doing stuff that usually should be boring. Just like Ankan can see something interesting and then dissect it completely to learn how it works, like some certain scripts and code on the blog, I do the same with social situations in my mind. Not to mention that I’ve lately found some interest in people watching.

Well, after that I took half of my current money and bought food. So now I’m half-broke. The rest of the day I’ve spent working with RPG, chatting with people and watching series. It’s strange how almost all of the best series seems to be cancelled due to one reason or the other. Though some of those series that I’ve been recommended have been… less than good. Like New Amsterdam, that Ankan said had some similarities to The Man from Earth. Okay, he’s immortal but the story is almost pathetic in most other senses not to mention that his son is supposed to be black but he looks more white than black to me. Well, Drak at least have the same taste in series as me… with some exceptions… hehe.

Well, what have I worked with then today? Well, if I would say it myself, I’ve worked with some awesome things to RPG! Spells, phases and durations and shit. There is many things that is in urgent need of attention right now, like the mages spells, the druids abilities and skills like Two Weapons and so on. I haven’t yet worked out something that actually works to my liking when it comes to Two Weapons but the rest is coming up pretty good. Something almost new I’ve made today is effect and action over phases. It still has some flaws to work out but I think I know how.

A round is pretty hard to limit to phases as we talked about during the forum, so how should you solve the fact that one type might have more actions left than all the others? Give that person one long phase? Well, actually that’s almost what we decided. When all members of a fight are out of actions and one or maybe two is left with actions, they have a great advantage over the rest. But by adding some modified rules about phases it enables all to act during all phases and when each phase always takes one action a maximum number of phases is in its order. Just as the maximum number of actions during one round is 12 the maximum phases should be six or eight¹.

Well, the thing is that in each phase some actions should be free and when you are out of actions some limited actions, depending on your stance will be available. You can always move one square in those phases² and you can always change stance. Well, I’ve thought about a special stance, especially made for people without actions and only available then too.

But the nice stuff I’ve been thinking about is things for mages. As previously mentioned Mages need to be more powerful with the new risks that have been added to the game. But to make some spells both more powerful I still need to apply weaknesses to the mages so they can be defeated. This is long-spells, spells which they cast over many phases and during the casting procedure they are defenceless. Long-spells or slow-spells will have a great effect but if they cancel the spell it will most likely miscast or fail in one way or another resulting in effects that aren’t good.

The good thing is that I’ve actually started to spawn up ideas to thechniques and other stuff that would have the same functionality. Things that takes phases and render the caster, user or whatever defenceless but does a great deal of damage or actually is precisely what is needed for the situation though the risks might be higher. I’ve also started to oversee some of the racial abilities functionality just for this kind of thing. Many of the racial abilities have come with some social flaws and drawbacks but then again the effect of the racial abilities are pretty strong and not to mention that it actually grows. There isn’t even one racial ability that isn’t growing stronger as the character becomes stronger.

Best regards,
Herid Fel

1. This needs to be tested before anything is decided ↩

2. Not if you are in pending or assisting stance ↩