2.0 Notes

High Priority Thoughts

Defender Stuff (defending allies)
Summoning
- Cast > 1 / battle (some units)
- Use caster's tanks
- Utility ability (more out of battle stuff)
Eliminate Battle/Out of Battle differences
Ability Leveling
- Choose to make cheaper or greater magnitude, etc
New magic schools separated by cost instead of effects
- Meditation (Mysticism)
- Sorcery (Alteration/Elemental)
- Summoning
- Enchantment

Character backgrounds can be taken at character creation
Unlimited backgrounds can be taken (i.e. each one is self balancing)
Examples:
- Veteran- take 1 major physical affliction (as permanent), get extra physical talent
- Savant- take 1 major mental affliction (as permanent), get extra mental talent
- Cultural backgrounds
afflictions from background are labeled as “permanent”, which means that most “Heal Affliction” spells/services will not be able to heal them
Very tippy-top heal spell can heal permanent afflictions, but should be so high cost that players don't get this until they've already worked around their affliction for a long time (ex: lvl 15)

Armor has 4 damage resistance ratings: Piercing, Slashing, Bashing, and Magic, determined by material
Armor AP is straight damage reduction- no SP damage is taken from successful attacks
Weapons have 4 damage ratings: Piercing, Slashing, Bashing, and Magic, determined by material
A normal attack uses the lowest armor damage resistance rating, much like dodge penalty uses the highest
If any weapon rating beats the armor damage resistance rating then no armor damage reduction is counted (the attacker must declare the damage type when attacking)
Arrows have all piercing damage
Normal shot - action, normal damage
Piercing shot - channel(1), +1 piercing damage rating (long bows can give +2 piercing, but -damage for normal shots)
can take move/action in any order
leaving a square in range invokes interrupting attack
Ability: Arcing shot (line of sight, not line of effect)
Ability: Volley shot (arcing shot but not aimed)
Ability: Increase Range
Ability: use bow as melee weapon (allow SP attack)
Ability: choke people with bow (allow SP damage)
Shield Ability: block ranged attack for enemy (def inst)
Blunt Rating Special: allows armor rating to be used as a bonus to SP attacks
Piercing Rating Special: crit for more damage
Slashing Rating Special: crit for bleeding damage
Magic Rating Special: none special

No recursive counter spells!
Meditation - 3 types of spell types, all types have same time/cost scaling so all can be cast in/outside of battle
- Long term effects (ex: +1 acc for 1 day)
- Spell charge (ex: +4 acc for 1 turn, instant cast, must cast within 24 hours)
- Spell trigger (ex: heal 5 HP when health falls below 50% within 24 hours)
- Clarity can be maximum # of active effect/spell charges/spell triggers at the same time

XP as currency for upgrades
No level, “slower leveling” races cost more XP for more gain
How to balance? Ex: Stacking Spells?
“Care Packages” for tiers
Talents affect “care packages”
Stats
Talents
Skills
Powers
- Racial Powers
- Spells
- Martial Powers
Shapeshifter shifting for utility
“Perks” - prof skills but for all types of skills
Mounted
More fluid
Passive Utility (even magic)
- Explicity state can improve magic
Story match stats
Pets/Familiars
- Utility (only?)
- skill (so have to specialize)
- have to use turn to command
Turn parts in order?
- Skills to disengage
limit # of instants / turn?
language learning
- mage implants language
- emphasis low Halser is impricise
Split awareness skill (perception/strategy)
Chasing roll keyword