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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
• 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, 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