#rpg worlds

[moonlightvigil8]

rpg and scenario idea

i never really posted in tumblr, so be nice, but this is two of my ideas that i am mixing into one and i will explain them both here in a long post, one of them is a directional guard system for a combat system and the other is capitalists that grow in divine(?) power as they get money

i will start with the scenario and its stuff because its more interesting, basically i wanted capitalists that are morally neutral but do evil and grow in power magically as they get more money, the way i did that is to make so labor or work can be given to a divine entity to give them power, usually by willingly trading or offering it to them, it has to be willingly(big asterisk), gods are human creation and can only live as long as people keep offering things to them, with no way to get power on their own and sustain their immortality they will waste away and disappear with no one to remember them. so there is 2 'factions' of gods, the bureaucrats that are slow and work with the mortals to exist while having extremely complex burocracy that stops them for interfering too much into mortal world, and the capitalists that work between the lines of divine laws and mortal trading to accumulate power quicker and exponentially instead of only working with offerings like most gods do.

this is the fundamental idea, and to be placed in a industrial revolution time period so its very clear the changes that capitalism does to feudal places and, well, you can kill them, just for them to be replaced with someone else to keep the cycle of exploration.

the divine laws:

no god can trespass one another domain, unless invited or if they share the domain

no god can steal another's god symbol of power

gods need permission of the mortals to infere in mortal problems

gods can only fight demigods or mortals if they are challenged or hit first

very inspired by Percy Jackson because gods are fun in Percy Jackson. other things are like, you can talk more easily with minor gods using drugs, gods tend do develop the personality and ideals of their followers and represent ideas and institutions, gods can give powers to mortals.

quick lightning round of stuff, inspired by pointy hat, avatar, the summoner, league of legends and monster hunter. this is more things i want instead of things i actually did.

ghosts like pointy hat

solar punk communists druids

flexible lich's rules

learn magic thru enviroment

ghost weasels

divine born, both actual demigods and what pointy hat did with aasimar

vastayas

curses as needs and wants

familiars as the summoner, its really cool, later i will go into detail

rules for prophecies to have things like Percy Jackson, they are cool

mega fauna, like monster hunter

and then i separated magic system into some stuff

soul, life, death and heal

time, gravity and entropy

prophecies and divination

enchantment and illusion

transport, transformation, manipulation and creation

then i separated into more useful classes

noble pokemon master: heal, enchantment, divination and transport

bending like avatar: manipulation and transformation

druid solarpunk: life, death, entropy, illusion, creation and transformation

bards: soul, heal, prophecies, enchantment, illusion and creation

missionaries('clerics'): all of them, depending on the god they serve

that's it for lore, more or less, i need to polish a lot of it and i would like feed back and to explain what its badly written :).

rules i will do on another post here because this is long, have a nice day

creating a rpg system

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i will post the rest of the system and scenario in this blog

[moonlightvigil8]

i shall put the system here now, here is the link to the scenario post

to make a roll, you need 3 dice, a rest dice, a atribute dice and a proficiency dice, each one of these can be between a d4 and a d12. the dice for the result you pick is the middle result, so if you roll a 3, 4 and a 7, your result for the test is a 4, every 1 you roll its a negative and each 7 or 8 is one boom, 9 and 10 is 2 booms and 11 and 12 is 3 booms for each number rolled on the dice, no addition, this is based on this video and work the same way for advantage and disadvantage, so you respectively pick the bigger or lowest result of the 3 dices instead of the middle one. one thing i am adding is that instead of re-rolling if you hit the max on a dice, you instead re-roll if you roll 2 of the same numbers on 2 dices, if you do that you add those 2 results and re-roll those dices for a total of 4 results, if you roll 2 of the same numbers again you add those to the previous added roll, i might change that because i just realized that a bigger roll doesn't mean much if you get the middle roll but i like the idea of re-rolling the same results.

stamina is a system of limiting effortful activities by giving everyone a pool of stamina and having to expend them to do the best stuff and you get back after a rest, this would limit the use of martial techniques and casting magic and getting more actions in a round and a bit of healing once a day, things like that.

for combat i stole the 4 action economy of dc 20 and i thought of a guard system a long time ago and i am trying to do something with it for some time, being brief for the 4 action economy, at the end of every turn you regain 4 action points that you can use as reaction, and when it gets back to your turn, the left action points is how much actions you can do on your turn. the guard system is more complicated and assumes a hexagonal grid to work, basically everyone has a guard, which is a representation of your attention on the battle field, every guard has a coverage of 1/6 or one face, 1/2 or 3 faces, 5/6 or 5 faces and complete, and everyone that is on that face of the hexagonal has lower chance of hitting you for example, like you have a +1 to your armor class, and you can choose of a list of guards and it takes 1 action to change guards, you can track one unit to always be facing them and not allow them to get to your back, you can stop tracking someone with a free action at any time but you can only start tracking someone on your turn, i don't know if this is a good idea, but i like it and i didn't have a chance to test it yet.

thank you for reading, i appreciate it, have a nice day. this is not the whole but its the more structural and solid stuff.

[sarenthestalwart]

CAPTAIN ORION AND HER MARVELOUS SPACE PIRATES; An RPG of Pulp Science Fantasy Swashbuckling

One of my favorite RPG settings for DnD has to be Spelljammer do to the potential for fantasy elements in a space opera setting. And with Starfinder just released from Paizo for Pathfinder, I figured to throw my own hat in the ring.

The setting takes cues from Treasure Planet with the main method of transport across the cosmos being galleons that can ride on solar winds and traverse over oceans of aether-filled space. Not to mention pirates that wield laser cutlasses and shoot pulse-loaded pistols and muskets.  As well, I took a few notes from classic Filmation and Hanna-Barbera cartoons like He-Man, ThunderCats, Bravestarr, and She-Ra, some Raygun Gothic from Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, and finally a little space opera goodness from Leiji Matsumoto (Captain Harlock).

“Captian Orion” takes place in the Aethereal Galaxy, a spiral of almost thousands of systems with about nine supporting life; - Agni - Baast - Ecumene - Manannan - Muchos - Nox - Uhlanga - Volo - [REDACTED]

The main heroes are Captain Marvelus Orion, a Dashing Rogue of a woman in command of the Colonel Blood, named after her mentor Ronax Blood of the Planet Volo. she carries on looking after her own and keeping her enemies off her back. The PCs themselves are newly inducted members aboard her ship, and can be helpful shipwrights, ballistic sharp-shooters manning the plasma cannons, dangerous void-surfers who take to the vacuum of space in light spacecraft, or boot-strapped buccaneers who take the fight directly to the enemy vessel.

The main enemies are the Empire of Ecumene of the Solarius System, ruled by the Usurper Despot Dominicus the Delirious at his palace of Malebolge. His ambition is unfathomable and his sanity is questionable, his supporters are only hanging onto his words with the hope they can take advantage on the day his madness truly sets in. On the pirating front is Count Steelbeard. Pillager, tormentor, torturer, and generally unpleasant robonoid. Steelbeard used to be among the good guys, but years of being denied the “good life” has made him greedy and wicked, so now he works with Dominicus under the agreement that the Count is free to take his fill, just not any of Dominicus’s.

I’ll update this more later on

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Duon, the Fighting Tournament RPG

World of Flesh and Spirit

A place where the physical world and the spirit world are nearly next door to each other. 

Inspired by Asian Mythology and like cultures, such as Mongolian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Himalayan, Turkish ethnographies, Indian, Indonesian, Thai, Korean and various islander ethnographies.

The current storyline goes that the Imperial Kahn of the South Heavenly Peaks has expanded its reach into the other provinces of Duon. The current war master, Jakha Gambu, has started a “battle tournament” (fighting game) where warriors from all the provinces of Duon come to fight one another. The truth behind it however is a show of superiority, as those who make it to the end have to fight the best warriors of the Imperial Kahn, including Jakha himself. The threat is that if they don’t lose to at most the Warmaster, he’ll raze their province.

The basic goal of this setting would be to emulate the feeling of playing a fighting game, where rolls are made in order to determine how many punches, kicks, and special moves the players are able to do during their turn.

More on what types of fighters and how players can craft their own fighting styles in future posts.

[sarenthestalwart]

The Blighted Lands, Races and Pacts

Races

• Human: Your standard jack-of-all-trades humanoids. Though I’m actually intending humans to be “high risk/high reward” as humanity is at the bottom of the food chain in this terrifying place of monsters and madness. • Dagonian (Fish-People): It’s rumored that they were once human, but they abandoned their faith in Ingrid to be protected by a being known as the “Saint of the Deep.” Now, they’re appearance is that of man and fish, with bulging untrusting eyes. • Fleshcrafter: Not necessarily a race as they are a cultural group, but there are enough of them to be called this. They're a mix between dark wizards and mad scientists, whose gifts lie with being able to craft golems to fight monsters. However, some of these living weapons look even worse than the monsters they fight, and are often an amalgam of various other creatures brought to life through semi-scientific/quasi-magic means. What's more, Fleshcrafters will sometimes augment themselves with tech or monster bits. o Most of them work for the College of Embalmment and Reanimation, and one of their breakthroughs is the discovery of a slime that is capable of holding "genetic information" that can be later transferred to another creature . • Mechon: Members of a long-dead civilization, they tried to unlock the secrets of godhood and they wound up paying the price . Now their consciousnesses are stored away in mechanical clockwork bodies. • The Risen: Willful Undead. Unlike the ghouls or other "undead," they still retain the memories of their past life and are actually in active opposition to the other monsters that tread Ingrisföld. They believe that Ingrid has actually reinvigorated them with life to fight these horrors and are thus religious zealots dedicated to eradicating any threat to Ingrid and her followers. Even if the threat is among her followers. Unfortunately, because they're still Undead, and the fact that Pathfinders can still detect the Touch of Sin on them, they're still hunted by the Healing Church's Warhounds.

Pacts

• The Brotherhood of Lanterns: Dubbed Pathfinders, they're spiritual guides that know the "safest" ways through the dreg that Ingrisföld has become by sensing where Sin is the strongest and steer clear of it. • The Church of Ingrid: The official religion of the continent. They believe in Ingrid's smiting fire. • Ingrid's Warhounds: Specially trained Monster Hunters. The public is told that Ingrid's light is what gives them strength, but the truth is that they have been augmented with bits from other monsters to make them faster and stronger. They're also put through a harrowing journey of the mind that steels against the potentially psyche-shattering horrors that surround them, day and night. Whatever day there is left, anyway. • The Pale Moon Circus: A traveling circus troupe that makes its way throughout the Dregs. They seem to be immune to Sin. • Dark Sun Slayers: A party of necromancers that serve as Undead Slayers. They employ a special kind of soldier called a Wraith Knight, which are suits of armor controlled by a bound ghost. • The Black Bloods: Vampires who hunt their own.

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The People of Elysian

Basic Info:

1. Human: Pretty standard. They make up the majority of the people on the swaying and shifting lands of Elysian. They commonly appear as either olive skinned and fair-haired (from the green, mountainous fields of Cyper) to being dark with hair black as pitch (from the sandy but bountiful Sun Lands). 2. Amazon: An all-female species of “humans,” they’re distinguished by their impressive stature and the slight orange pigment of their skin. They often distinguish their appearances with elaborate tattoos detailing any deeds they’ve done or jobs they’re in. 3. Pygmy: Short humanoids with dirt-brown skin and pointed ears, they’re essentially Goblins with a tribal plain theme. They get around the world of Elysian on the backs of large birds they’ve tamed. 4. Centaur: A nomadic tribe of people with the torso of a man and the body of a horse, they’re in fact the ones who took to the skies of Elysian first before the rest adopted the Centaurs flying contraptions. 5. Nymph/Inanimae: Spirits of nature that inhabit the forests and clouds of Elysian. Like the Amazons, they’re all-female but only in appearance. 6. Faun: A half-humanoid, half-goat race of people. They’re actually not native to the broken apart world of Elysian and are descendants of a group of goat-like faeries (Satyrs) who stumbled into Elysian before it became what it is now. They’re incredibly agile, and make for perfect fleet footed (or hooved in this case) fighters and rogues. 7. Monopode: A pretty bizarre looking race of people, they’re four to five foot tall humanoids who only have one leg to stand on as well as one very big foot. This makes them have to hop wherever they go. 8. Arimaspi: Cyclops-spawn, as they were once called, these one-eyed outcasts make their daily bread as metal-workers and weapons crafters.

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RPG Worlds, Gaius

This world is your basic tabletop rpg fantasy world, a place of high adventure and slaying monsters. But I intend to give this place it’s own unique flavor in various layers.

Gaius is the name of the planet in which a vast majority of the adventures takes place. Its early history is shrouded in obscurity and many can merely guess what took place during that strange time. This was a time before man became a common sight, and as such it was populated by a variety of odds and ends of life.

The world so far has two continents which can be explored, with other places to be explored in future supplements.  The first continent is Tyra-Ventus, a continent that is the size of North America and Russia combined, and just barely resembles Europe turned on its head. The second continent is to the southwest, the great desert continent of Makalhe with the Arabian Nights/Middle East inspired Saras serving as the bordering country.

As it stands, the time period of this world currently resembles the late High to early Late Middle Ages on Earth, when Europe was experiencing a Dark Age relapse with the incursion of the Black Death, peasant uprisings, the nobility being rife with paranoia and ambition, and also some brand new technologies like gunpowder making an appearance.

Anyway, the name of the game here is that the PCs are mercenaries making their money doing battle for the various factions across Tyra-Ventus. The system will be flexible sort of like Shadowrun with a lot of the skills and perks from games like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder Role-Playing. Basically, the players have a big list of skills they can choose from to create their own unique class of soldier for hire. To avoid over-powering, future skills and perks outside the primary skillset that was chosen during character creation will become harder to learn as the players progress because they’ll cost more than the skills or perks within the players’ “trees.”