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Feb 28, 2013 -- 11:11AM, Ruwinreborn wrote:

If you like this system I can go in to more detail about what the traits do, but I think it is important that we make each setting unique. Since, you know, each setting is unique.

One last thing, how do we go about getting trait points? 

I think we should have general flavor traits and setting specific ones.

As for races, I'd like some consistency in the races across the planes, but we could go 50/50 on that, with 2 generic and two plane specific racial traits. 

Five trait points are given during character creation, the rest are given by the DM during the story for minor and greater accomplishments. Say, crossing an ocean, winning an important fight, completing a quest...

Here's how I see basic game elements converted to an RPG setting:

Card Types:

• Planeswalker: N/A
• Instant: A quick spell that you can cast without much preparation (can be cast as a response to an enemy action)
• Sorcery: A spell that takes a couple of seconds to cast
• Enchantment: An effect that last until the end of an encounter
• Artifact: a physical thingy
• Creature: the player characters and most allies and enemies you encounter
• Land: I was thinking of having lands be represented by the locale you're in. So each place would have a land-type associated and that would effect some abilities (Landfall, by the way, is movements in the roil, so you could represent this by having the DM do a "landfall" check, which would either cause the terrain to deform, or the type of land to shift)

Other game concepts:

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  Mana: I was thinking (but this was last night, so it could be a terribly idea) that it could represent a type of "action points" you can spend each turn. You start with 1 colored mana and then you can get more by some process (I have an idea for this, but I need to test it first.)
• Card draw: I have no idea on this actually. It should give you more options in some way, though.
• Power/Toughness: I see power as something that decides how much damage you do. There's a Star Wars system that uses flat numbers to deal damage, instead of rolls, and this would be pretty useful in a text-based system, since we would have less dice to roll. Toughness is harder. I've had several ideas, but they all sucked. For some ideas it would kill the players too fast (Toughness as HP) and others made Toughness to different from the card game (Toughness as damage absorption)

UPDATE: Could every player post his or her character by Sunday? That way I have some time to prepare and we can get started next week. Just use whatever system feel natural to you to write up your character. If I think something doesn't work for whatever reason, I'll just openly state it and we can work it out together.

Thanks.

I took the liberty of creating a character sheet. You can edit it, but please don't in order to create your character, just copy it for that. You are allowed to make structural changes and the traits list can certainly be added to.

Rules:

• You start with 5 trait points.
•  Your plane is Zendikar
• Your Power is added to your damage roll (meaning it increases the damage you do with attacks and abilities - not spells).
• Your Toughness reduces the incoming damage.
• For your attributes (Strength, Intelligence and Dexterity) you can give 3 to the most powerful, 2 to the lower one and then 1. You can increase one attribute by 1, by removing two points somewhere else. These govern various actions you can take (including your chance to hit). Strength for melee character, Dexterity for ranged attacks and Intelligence for spells. Your Intelligence also tells you how many spells you can have at once.

So, feedback?

And this also serves as a reminder that I'd like your character by Sunday. If you've already posted your character, just do so again, so I've got them all in one place

Mar 8, 2013 -- 4:42PM, Its_Always_42 wrote:

Also, the trait system is what has been tripping me up from the beginning. Since I've been a little sick today and can't think well, I'm not even going to finish off the traits right now. Complete open-ness is my one weakness, besides.

This might be a design issue, but I think when we have a decent "rulebook" with all the info in it, it gets easier, as, well, you don't have to come up with traits from scratch.

I should have time tomorrow, so I'll see what I can cook up for a Minotaur Warrior Ally.