primordial_odd: a work in progress

[kesher]

Below is a link to my current, in-progress Fantasy Supplement Simulacrum called primordial_odd.

One major change I made to its Chainmail origins: In terms of attack and defense, I changed Light/Heavy/Armored to Cunning/Fierce/Masterful. Upon reflection, they really struck me as not so much about armor, but more about a gestalt of force and skill (particularly apparent when you look at how the FS applies them to monsters).

I've made, well, simulacra of the three tables, in this case called Combat (the original Combat Table), Dueling (Man-to-Man) and Wondrous Combat (Fantasy Combat Table). There are a few departures from the FS in them, as well, but I think they adhere quite closely to its spirit.

I'll be playtesting the rules I have (and filling in the rules I don't!) on Sunday...

primordial_odd


* I posted about this over on SANDBOX EMPIRE, too.

[Finarvyn]

Neat stuff here. Still processing what I see, but overall it seems pretty slick!

[kesher]

Thanks, Fin! I look forward to your comments...

[cooper]

Very cool. I think the cunning/fierece/masterful is a neat idea, would you consider leaving defense as light/heavy/armored? That way there would never be the need to clarify if you were talking about attacking or defending. Just a thought.

[kesher]

Thanks, cooper!

As for differentiating attack vs. defense, it's not a bad idea, I just don't care to think about armor except in the Dueling Table. I can't imagine there'd be too much confusion around it, but I'll keep it in mind as I start playtesting this Sunday.

[kesher]

It occurs to me it'd be useful to post here some of the disambiguation I posted on my blog...

The Combat Table uses single d6s, and the formula is dice/rank(target number to score a hit); e.g., 1/2(6) means one die/two ranks, with a 6 needed to score a hit.
The Dueling Table uses 2d6, and at least right now, the low rank in the duel is subtracted from the high rank. The high rank in the duel uses that "duel number" as the number of 2d6 combos he rolls. The low rank in the duel rolls their rank, unless it's higher than the duel number, in which case they use the duel number, too. Opponents of the same rank each roll one 2d6. E.g., a 4th rank character faces off in a duel against a 1st rank character. 4-1=3, so the high rank rolls 3 2d6s combos, while the low rank character only rolls 1d6. If the low ranking character was 2nd rank, then both opponents would roll 2d6.
The Wondrous Combat table uses single rolls of 2d6 for each opponent. Damage can be dealt in one of two ways: each successful roll equals one hit of damage, or a successful hit equals an actual kill---that'll learn ya' to take the Wondrous lightly! The scores needed to hit are listed, for instance, as "7/5". The character's score to hit is on the left, the monster's on the right.
Characters themselves have hits equal to their rank. They can actually be knocked down to zero hits and keep fighting. Once below zero, they make a Saving Throw---if they make it, they're unconscious, if they fail it, well, even heroes die. After a combat, all hits are restored. If knocked down past zero and only rendered unconscious, when revived, hits will go back up only to the character's rank minus one, until the Adventure's over (or they spend a few days resting.)