Building an RPG: Borrowing from EZD6 Magic System
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- Welcome! My name is Jface and I'm a TTRPG & Board Game enthusiast. I'm in the midst of creating my own game, and as I go through the process i'm exploring what makes other games work so well. We are analyzing mechanics, and the math behind it as well as the general feel. If you are also building a game then come along for the ride!
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A bit of a gaff. Always take the highest die with a check (unless rolling with banes). Magick is the exception, and rolling a 1 auto fails a spell unless you take spellburn or reroll with a hero die.
Appreciate it! That was brought to my attention and I find that really interesting. Its really nice that the Boon is always take highest. It changes how I now think of it slightly
Looking at these slimmed down systems can be really useful when seeing how to trim the fat on our own systems.😁👍
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100%. Some of these smaller games are so elegant. They make you realize what is most important in the game and the feel.
I absolutely love this format. Easy to listen to. Full of info. Subscribed
Thanks jfm! Appreciate the kind words. I need to get into some more reviews
I thought you were going to say take the lowest die, but i think your way works better. This is simple and clean. Good job sir.
Appreciate it, buddy
I'm a fan of EZD6 but I'm glad to see Jface examining all these systems for the "cool" stuff to borrow from.
My group has been experimenting with different systems and from those experiments we pull cool rules into our homebrew. We're currently experimenting with TriStat Core (BESM 4e).
Whoa…what is TriStat Core (BESM 4e)?
@@jfacegames7354 big eyes, small mouth 4th edition? I would assume based on googling
@@jfacegames7354 TriStat core is the "engine" that powers Dyskami's latest TRPG offerings. Like Big Eyes Small Mouth 4th edition. Back in the day it was a roll under d6 system. It's now a roll over D6 system. There isn't a lot of coverage at all of TriStat but there are some older videos on earlier versions of TriStat DX. IMHO it's worth a read through. It's a point buy classless effect based system like Champion/Hero/Gurps.
You had me at “point buy”. I’ll have to check out the mechanics for it. I’ll be looking it up this week :)
I like the down to earth and calm style of your videos 👏🏻
Really appreciate that! I’ve got a new video coming out today. Let me know if it keeps the same vibe even though it’s a bit more “produced”
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Oh man, I’ll check that out immediately. Thanks for the heads up!
A solution, maybe not perfect, would be to use the other dice depending on the kind of effect you want to add.
For exemple, if you want the spell to slow down, you will add a controller die, and if you want it to make an aoe, you will add a striker die?
The advantage is that a magician will also need to be specialized, and it might be a good blend between your standard system and the magic system.
But there are still a few problems :
- It will be a bit more complex to prepare the dice to throw (especially for bigger spells)
- Some more common effects might make some magicien schools less attractives. (mystic + leadership seems quite restrictive).
- You will only have one mystic die to throw for every spells.
Yeah, that is where I’m heading currently I think. I feel like that is the way to go.
Mystic + Leadership would technically be your cleric-esc character. Its the team buffer and the team healer potentially.
I don’t think there is a problem using the existing controller, marksman, etc die. Magic is powerful to begin with. It’s a good limiter. So for those effects just use them and all “special” effects make them roll more mystic dice. It will make more specialized casters naturally. And people love rolling different size die together.
I’ll have to really start listing out examples of what one does with a Controller dice vs a Mystic+Controller dice. (And all the other dice types). Just so that people see the huge advantage they might get going Magical
hey when do you stream?
Stream? Like a live RPG stream, or stream making these videos?
@@jfacegames7354 yea i saw your videos and i though you where streaming them when u made them. i had few question to ask but never found good place to send them
Oh, ok. And you didnt want to ask on here? I’ll get a link of some sort otherwise you can send questions too
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You can drop some questions in here! Just let me know when you’ve done so since it won’t send me a notification
@@jfacegames7354 oh its a bit complex. Im also making a ttrpg. I was looking to your work to get better ideas on how to approuch problems. I want to see if you had a place where you get most of your constructive feed back from
Can you just incorporate a mystic range die, mystic controller die etc... and let them take feats, to gain access to those dice? And that way, a mystic range die, it wouldn't help them at all if they were trying to shoot a bow. Just a thought.
I do NOT like the idea of having a 1-in-6 chance of failing arbitrarily when I have a boon. That sounds like a player-hostile design.
I may have been wrong on that. It might only work that way with Magic which is strong
Boons and Banes is nothing new. Drakar och Demoner (now Dragonbane) was using Boons and Banes way back in the 80's and it works exactly the same way. EZD6 and D&D just copied the Advantage / Disadvantage idea from Drakar och Demoner.
I saw that kickstarter for the newest edition of that game. Haven’t looked into it though