11-24-2016, 10:00 AM
POO = Point Of Origin (should be PoO but sounds like a kindergarten joke anyway)
Agreed about facing. Back in university years we tried to invent VSRPG (Very Simple RPG) with the basic requirements being:
- players rules should fit into 12 A4 pages
- use only six-sided dice
- use single digits whenever possible
To achieve this, most things were described as formulae instead of tedious lists, following the basic idea of mosaic spells (similar to dungeon master and grimrock though the latter didn't exist yet)
One of my favourites was the learning rules: a silly teacher with a bright student had the same chance as a neat teacher with a dumb pupil (i.e. add up the intelligence of both and that's the progress you make in one day; needing X progress to train your skill by 1 rank)
The whole thing got nasty as everyone tried to bring in their favourite tidbits from various games (wh40k, werewolf, dnd, star wars, vampire etc) and the whole thing messed up and became utterly complicated.
Recently I played with the thought of writing a sans-class d20 game which would otherwise as close to dnd / pf as possible to feel "at home" (well... there are attempts at this already and True20 is probably the closest match if looking for fantasy)
Agreed about facing. Back in university years we tried to invent VSRPG (Very Simple RPG) with the basic requirements being:
- players rules should fit into 12 A4 pages
- use only six-sided dice
- use single digits whenever possible
To achieve this, most things were described as formulae instead of tedious lists, following the basic idea of mosaic spells (similar to dungeon master and grimrock though the latter didn't exist yet)
One of my favourites was the learning rules: a silly teacher with a bright student had the same chance as a neat teacher with a dumb pupil (i.e. add up the intelligence of both and that's the progress you make in one day; needing X progress to train your skill by 1 rank)
The whole thing got nasty as everyone tried to bring in their favourite tidbits from various games (wh40k, werewolf, dnd, star wars, vampire etc) and the whole thing messed up and became utterly complicated.
Recently I played with the thought of writing a sans-class d20 game which would otherwise as close to dnd / pf as possible to feel "at home" (well... there are attempts at this already and True20 is probably the closest match if looking for fantasy)
