rpg-system-notes/Version 1/TODO.md

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# Characters
## Character Creation
- Determine initial attributes
	- Roll for stats
	- Point buy
	- Standard array
- Determine skills
	- Can skills be bought during character creation?
	- Skills are granted by heritage and background
	- Skills can be granted with qualities
- [[03 Lineage]]
	- Create lineage for players to choose from
		- Guidelines exist just need to create examples
		- Could ask Brian, Daniel, or Derek
- [[04 Heritage]]
	- Create heritage for players to choose from
		- Guidelines exist just need to create examples
		- Could ask Brian, Daniel, or Derek
- [[05 Background]]
	- Create backgrounds for players to choose from
		- Guidelines exist just need to create examples
		- Could ask Brian, Daniel, or Derek
- [[Version 0.5/1 Characters/Qualities/00 Qualities]]
	- Come up with qualities
		- Some are positive
		- Some are neutral
			- They have positive and bad traits
		- Some are negative
			- They allow you to get another quality during character creation
- [[Version 0.5/1 Characters/08 Features]]
	- Should characters start with any features?
		- I don't think so. New characters have qualities which grant some abilities but don't have any actual features yet
## Attributes
- [[Resolve]] (Mental) vs [[Composure]] (Spiritual)
- What is [[Self]] used for?
	- In general the groups of attributes have one for health, two for checks, and one for abilities
		- [[Reaction]] is used in combat
		- [[Stamina]] is used for extended tasks
		- [[Self]] should fall in this category
- Derived attributes
	- [[Health]] uses [[Body]] (Physical), [[Resolve]] (Mental), and [[Composure]] (Mental)
		- Need to figure out equation to use
	- [[Willpower]] is [[Resolve]] and [[Composure]]
		- Implies there could be derived stats for:
			- [[Body]] and [[Resolve]]
			- [[Body]] and [[Composure]]
## Skills
- Need descriptions of skills and examples of when they would be used
	- Most of them are self explanatory
	- Could ask Brian, Daniel, or Derek
## Character Progression
- When to grant xp?
	- Characters have goals, when they progress their goal during a session they get xp
	- Don't want to do xp for killing monsters because that sucks
		- Killing monsters could be part of a goal though which would grant xp
- How much xp to grant?
	- Depends on costs of upgrades and desired speed of progression
	- Do some math once features are more ironed out
- Features
	- Need feature trees for different archetypes
	- Need standalone features like the 5e Feats
		- Some of these should be repeatable
	- Need to determine cost of all features
		- Initial values for [[Version 0.5/1 Characters/Features/Weapon Features/00 Weapon Features]] can be used as an example
	- Weapon features
		- How should the [[04 Extended Range]] upgrade work?
- Attributes
	- Determine cost of increasing an attribute
		- Should depend on level of attribute
- Skills
	- Determine cost of increasing skill
		- Should depend on level of skill
	- Determine cost of [[03 Skill Expertise]]
	- This includes language and knowledge skills
- Should progression require time on top of the xp requirement?
	- Maybe for some of them
		- Language would take time but maybe the time it took was shown by getting enough xp
	- Might come down to the GM for specific cases
## Party Progression
- Should this be based on base building type stuff or actual abilities that the party can do while together?
- What kind of abilities would work for a party instead of an individual?
- How do you grant xp to a party?
## Rolling Dice
- Simple checks are a roll against a DV
- Opposed checks are two characters rolling against each other
- Extended checks are checks that require a value larger than can be reached in one roll with the goal of it taking multiple cumulative attempts
	- How to scale the difficulty of this
		- Two axis of difficulty
			- Target value
			- Limited number of attempts
		- Need to figure out how each axis affects chance of success
- How does teamwork work?
	- Don't like just giving advantage or a flat bonus
	- Should scale based on the skill of the people helping
- Trying again
	- There should probably be some clearly defined way for characters to try things again
		- Physical tasks don't really make sense unless something has changed that changes the DV or modifier of the roll
		- Social tasks cold be tried multiple times if they try a different tactic
## Wounds
- Need to come up with tables of wounds with varying degrees of severity
	- [[Minor Wounds]]
	- [[Major Wounds]]
	- [[Fatal Wounds]]
## Actions
- Need to make sure action cost makes sense
- Get someone to review them to see if they make sense
## Combat
- Format combat rules to be more readable
- Get someone to review
## Social
- Build system based on beliefs
	- Take inspiration from Exalted
## Exploration
- Define character needs
	- Food
	- Water
	- Sleep
- Define travel speed
	- On foot
	- Mounted
	- This should change based on terrain
		- Maybe have terrain types
## Equipment
- Review weapon types
	- Do the categories make sense for arbitrary time periods
- Define equipment other than weapons and armor
## Crafting
- Crafting should be based on the following:
	- Raw materiel
		- What materials are needed to make the thing
		- This should be measured by [[Bulk]] instead of money to be system agnostic 
	- Knowledge
		- Does the character know how the thing they're making works
		- [[Knowledge Skills]]
	- Skill
		- Does the character have the skill to make the thing
		- [[Version 1/Notes/15 Crafting/Crafting|Crafting]], [[Version 1/Notes/3 Skills/Skills/Engineering]], [[Technology]], [[Version 1/Notes/3 Skills/Skills/Science]]
- Once a character has met the requirements it takes an amount of time that should be defined based on some trait of the item
	- Rarity?
	- Let the gm decide
		- Need suggestions
### Alchemy
- Similar requirements to crafting
- Based on properties of natural elements
	- Plants and stuff
- Could be character wants to create "effect" and gm says how much time they'll need to collect the resources if they have required knowledge and skill
- Need to define types of effects
	- Positive and negative
### Materials
- Define how material properties interact with each other
- Define how much of a material is needed to benefit from the property
- Define what kinds of materials and properties there are
## Statuses, Conditions, Ailments
- Statuses have levels of severity
- Conditions either exist or don't
	- You can't have levels of being prone
- Ailments aren't used yet
	- Are there effects that don't fall into statuses or conditions?
- Get a full list of statuses
- Get a full list of conditions
## Allies and Enemies
- Player characters are done this becomes quite a bit easier