(10-06-2014, 03:27 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: I'm all around excited for all of this. (This wouldn't happen to be part of your Ala Mhigan/Garlean plot?)
I will add that as someone who never did a lot of tabletop RP, Faolan's system was really easy to understand and see playing out in an in-game setting. I'm also pretty big fan of Verad's point system (I tried making a character sheet earlier for Sounsyy) but admit I got a little lost the further down the instructions I went. But that could've just been a) too early in the morning b) me being a tabletop derp. =o
My only question about Faolan's system was about Sanity and artifacts. Like supposing this was your character setup (it is actually sounsyy's...):
MUTABILITY----------- o o o â— â— | â— â— â— o o ------------FORTITUDE
EMPATHY-------------- o o o o â— | â— â— â— â— o ------INDEPENDENCE
INSTINCT--------------- o â— â— â— â— | â— o o o o --------------- WISDOM
Sounsyy would only have 2 Sanity, but 8 Energy right? Meaning she could only successfully use two artifacts despite having the energy to try eight. So is there another use for Energy or is it more appropriate to think of this stat as a resource you can't restore and have to manage carefully throughout the RP?
I was thinking I might have to retool Energy and Sanity a bit. They did different things in Faolan's original version, but he also had a very different (and TOTALLY AWESOME) setting/goal for everything. I'll have to think more on what I want the system to do and figure out how I can make Energy/Sanity reflect that better.
I don't mind that people can have super tiny numbers for their stats though. In Faolan's campaign, Tiergan only had 2 Sanity as well, and he was always on the brink of losing it all. BUT, I was always a little tempted to just let Tiergan lose his mind, because Faolan repeatedly told us that "Death is not the end." Someone eventually actually 'died' and we learned that it unlocked a whole other aspect of the story for that person. I kind of want to mirror the same thing so that people don't entirely have to fear hitting zero in a certain stat for a day.
Also, yes, this is definitely for the Garlean/Ala Mhigan/Eorzean event. I'm really glad everyone's giving their input because it lets me tweak everything. Once I finalize a system, I'm going to put a friend who's never made a character sheet before through it and see how much trouble they have,
