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Developing a kaiju/giant monster combat RPG. Thoughts on combat

Started by Accaris, March 26, 2022, 06:18:50 PM

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Accaris

#15
July 25, 2022, 09:10:30 PM
Quote from: zircher on July 25, 2022, 08:11:36 PM
Because Fate uses stress boxes and its combat is fairly narrative with the ability to leverage terrain and set up actions for a boost to your roll.

I'll have to look more into it, I think I want to go more crunchy plus Fate has kind of a sour reputation among old-school gamers as a "story game" or whatever. But not sure

zircher

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July 26, 2022, 12:32:04 AM Last Edit: July 27, 2022, 08:04:13 AM by zircher
I try to keep the system and the politics of the company separate.  Fate and Fate Accelerated Edition have been faithful tools in my RPG arsenal.  There are other aspect driven RPGs out there like PDQ, if you want to check that out, it is a freebie.

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David Johansen

#17
July 26, 2022, 10:53:25 PM
I'm thinking damage should be in "megadeaths."
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Cathode Ray

#18
August 01, 2022, 10:46:56 AM
My thoughts were to treat one aspect like a video game: Power-Ups.  If monsters have various powers, give monsters a radiation/kinetic energy cost to use each one, and a slow regeneration rate to re-accumulate radiation or kinetic energy.  Stronger powers use more energy.
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HappyDaze

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August 04, 2022, 04:05:54 PM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on August 01, 2022, 10:46:56 AM
My thoughts were to treat one aspect like a video game: Power-Ups.  If monsters have various powers, give monsters a radiation/kinetic energy cost to use each one, and a slow regeneration rate to re-accumulate radiation or kinetic energy.  Stronger powers use more energy.
Or go Street Fighter: Meter starts empty and weaker moves generate power to let you fuel the big moves.

This prevents the opening nova strike which doesn't seem appropriate.

DahBrutalBanana

#20
August 25, 2022, 11:04:29 PM
Anyplace we can get updates?
Like a Discord server or something of the like?

Accaris

#21
August 26, 2022, 02:11:06 AM
Quote from: DahBrutalBanana on August 25, 2022, 11:04:29 PM
Anyplace we can get updates?
Like a Discord server or something of the like?

I'm pretty frequently on the BasicExpert's guilded server and also on Twitter. We're gonna do playtesting soon

Tod13

#22
September 03, 2022, 03:45:48 PM
Reading through the thread, I started thinking of the concept of no hit points, with power increasing or decreasing based on battle results.

If you like dice pools, you can have the dice pool increase or decrease based on events, terrain, attacks, etc.

If you like single die rolls, you can go up or down in size in the same manner.

Accaris

#23
December 15, 2022, 06:39:30 PM
I decided to go with a d6 dice pool system for this to unify attack and damage into a single roll. Based on the limited playtesting we've done it seems pretty sweet so far.
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