Crazysaneman
2016-08-12, 08:29 AM
Good morning/afternoon/evening inhabitants of the playground,
I come to you today in search of fresh perspectives. Some time ago, I decided I was going to substantially homebrew much of the d20 system in a way that makes sense to myself and my playing group. The overall goal and mechanics of the homebrew system are largely irrelevant for the purposes of this post. The design I have in place allows the person playing to design almost anything that they could want to play, free of many of the constraints that traditional systems impose. They achieve this at each reward level in the form of spending "feats" to gain "ability training". This training could be in the form of many things. Class abilites (favored enemies, rage, sneak attack dice, spellcasting, etc...), feats (power attack, metamagic, skill focus, etc...), racial abilities (darkvision, terrain bonuses, specific magic school affinity, etc...) you get the idea. Let's not get hung up on the details. Seriously. This allows for a wide variety of character options. Want to play one of the Elric brothers? Fine. Master Chief? Ok. Want to run Pharah and Ana with you're spouse? Do it. Ezpz.
I have been tinkering with it for so long it's gone from a light hobby to a kind of sick obsession.
Everything has to work somehow.
What I need from you is you're hopes and dreams. I need ideas of abilities, weapon properties, named items, artifacts, unique races, skills, anything. Think of you're favorite character, be it from a video game, book, anime, manga, whatever. Think of a signature ability from anything. Think of a weapon, feat, skill, spell, magic system whatever... literally anything will work. Think of a character you've always wanted to play in any system ever. Tell me about it. What makes it cool? how does it work? What's the story behind him/her/it/them? Tell me about you're favorite book, game, comic, anything. The more ideas get tossed around the more I can tinker with. My group has been pretty much picked clean.
Things I have pretty much covered: (D&D 3.x + Pathfinder Core stuff)(Generic fantasy races. This includes lycanthropes, vamps, elves, major fey, major goblinoids, basic chromatic and metallic dragons)
TLDR;
I have a system I'm working on and I need fresh ideas for literally anything you can imagine in a game, book, comic, movie etc...
Thanks for the ideas, no matter how big or small :)
If the idea is straight forward (example: armor made of bone) or well known (like megaman's cannon - thanks PapaQuackers, or the Diablo 2 Bone Armor spell) then the name and it's origin will suffice.
If the idea is something more vague (like the ninja scroll wire communication) something more descriptive would be nice. Or a link. Whatever.
You folks and the love of the hobby are the reason I keep at it. Keeps me from going mad with boredom :smallamused:.
I come to you today in search of fresh perspectives. Some time ago, I decided I was going to substantially homebrew much of the d20 system in a way that makes sense to myself and my playing group. The overall goal and mechanics of the homebrew system are largely irrelevant for the purposes of this post. The design I have in place allows the person playing to design almost anything that they could want to play, free of many of the constraints that traditional systems impose. They achieve this at each reward level in the form of spending "feats" to gain "ability training". This training could be in the form of many things. Class abilites (favored enemies, rage, sneak attack dice, spellcasting, etc...), feats (power attack, metamagic, skill focus, etc...), racial abilities (darkvision, terrain bonuses, specific magic school affinity, etc...) you get the idea. Let's not get hung up on the details. Seriously. This allows for a wide variety of character options. Want to play one of the Elric brothers? Fine. Master Chief? Ok. Want to run Pharah and Ana with you're spouse? Do it. Ezpz.
I have been tinkering with it for so long it's gone from a light hobby to a kind of sick obsession.
Everything has to work somehow.
What I need from you is you're hopes and dreams. I need ideas of abilities, weapon properties, named items, artifacts, unique races, skills, anything. Think of you're favorite character, be it from a video game, book, anime, manga, whatever. Think of a signature ability from anything. Think of a weapon, feat, skill, spell, magic system whatever... literally anything will work. Think of a character you've always wanted to play in any system ever. Tell me about it. What makes it cool? how does it work? What's the story behind him/her/it/them? Tell me about you're favorite book, game, comic, anything. The more ideas get tossed around the more I can tinker with. My group has been pretty much picked clean.
Things I have pretty much covered: (D&D 3.x + Pathfinder Core stuff)(Generic fantasy races. This includes lycanthropes, vamps, elves, major fey, major goblinoids, basic chromatic and metallic dragons)
TLDR;
I have a system I'm working on and I need fresh ideas for literally anything you can imagine in a game, book, comic, movie etc...
Thanks for the ideas, no matter how big or small :)
If the idea is straight forward (example: armor made of bone) or well known (like megaman's cannon - thanks PapaQuackers, or the Diablo 2 Bone Armor spell) then the name and it's origin will suffice.
If the idea is something more vague (like the ninja scroll wire communication) something more descriptive would be nice. Or a link. Whatever.
You folks and the love of the hobby are the reason I keep at it. Keeps me from going mad with boredom :smallamused:.