Time to put some pressure on this…

Well, I’ve decided that it’s time I put pressure on Nianze. The system that is. The interest will most likely just go down from here I guess. It’s no telling before people get jobs, fiancés and god knows what might happen.

Anyhow, I’ve been thinking more and more to translate Nianze to more of a job, for me and also like I’ve said to push it forward faster. There is a lot that needs to be done and corrected and balanced out in different ways and well… it needs to be done at any rate.

So what needs to be done? Let’s try to make a list.

Armoury – Weapons, Armours and battle gear must get a more stable list as it had before
Damage System – Afflictions, healing, regeneration, recovering and damage levels
Properties – Descriptions and benefits and penalties considering modifications and such
Racial Abilities – Descriptions, rules and costs
Skills – Descriptions, rules and level benefits
Spell System – Description, a concrete ruleset and standard spells and spell techniques
Striker Abilities – Revising, descriptions, rules and such
System Reduction – Unnecessary aspects need to be removed or transferred to ice
Techniques – More techniques, or at least a good list with stats and costs that are balanced

I think this is everything that needs to be done for the system to be called complete. I’m not sure but I might decide to divide Nianze into three parts instead of two. Now speaking about main parts of the game. Of course there will be some differences between how things can be done between them but my thought is to remove or reduce just some aspects between the parts.

Now I’m thinking about having Nianze Adventurer, Nianze Heroes and Nianze Legends¹. Legends in the system which I’ve called Freelance with the IP-system and the custom specialities as its main thing rule-wise. This system though requires the rest to be finished and mostly just to have an additional part about how to create your own speciality and also a conversion system from actions to ip.

Nianze Adventurer will be a lighter version that the one we’re currently playing I think where I remove some things and shorten them out. In essence it will be a lite version of the system we play now but not. Easier and less complicated. As far as it’s possible but not too far. I think that in this system I would remove the Striker abilities and only use the Striker thing as a base for development. I will also completely remove the Racial Abilities and most abilities like that in the system and most likely also do as in Drakar och Demoner have most skills Static in exception for a few slots of free skills. Also limit the races to  four. Dwarf, Elf, Human and Panling². Also stances should be gone. All this shouldn’t make it too hard to translate to other aspects of Nianze

Heroes is the system we’ll play most of the time then. I want to reduce it a little in some places but mostly just finish the main part of it without going too deep. The world aspect of Nianze is quite stand alone from all the systems and doesn’t really need to be other than a short introductory text and such. The histories and lore’s can be kept universal. Even though the off-game and ruling effects would differ.

Anyhow the base need to be set. Then things can be made out from that. Right now I would prioritize the above listed things as;

1. Skills
2. Properties
2. System Reduction
4. Spell System
5. Techniques
6. Armoury
7. Damage System
8. Striker Abilities
9. Racial Abilities

In this I think I will do some of them simultaneously but in need I would rank them as this. But a thing such as System Reduction is actually something which I must do at the same time as I do the skills and properties. But at the same time skills and properties might need boosts I need to decide that. Well, well…

Anyhow, any thoughts about this matter?

Best Regards,
Herid Fel

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