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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:26 PM

[Cindered Horizons] Okay, I figured out sort of how the eventual system for this pans out. I'm gonna blab about it, because I love blabbing about class creation.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:26 PM

Alright, so each full class has a base class they start from, one of seven.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:27 PM

Yes!

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:28 PM

Like an actual physical game I'm going to make one of these days. I've been working off and on for a while now trying to get pieces in a state I like them.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:28 PM

this is about the class creation system I dreamed up, which I'm calling the 'Archetype System' because it gives enough options to have a 'custom' class without resorting to jack-of-all-trades levelling.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:30 PM

sort of.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:30 PM

At any rate, there's the three Disciplines. Martial, Arcane, and Prayer, which are about what you expect.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:30 PM

And of these three disciplines come the seven "base" classe.s

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:31 PM

There are your three "pure" disciplines, focusing only on one of the three.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:31 PM

Warrior for Martial, Arcanist for Arcane, and Clergyman for Prayer.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:32 PM

Then there are your three "son of two schools" classes, in-between each of the three disciplines.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:32 PM

Magus (Martial + Arcane), Crusader (Martial + Prayer), and Mystic (Arcane + Prayer)

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:33 PM

And then at the center, there's Acolyte - which dabbles in all three schools equally.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:34 PM

Next is a binary divider to split these up.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:34 PM

Are you a Natural or are you Disciplined?

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:35 PM

What this means is pretty simple. "Are your powers innate or did you have to train to acquire them"

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:35 PM

It's the Sorcerer/Wizard divider, essentially, but it works over all other classes.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:36 PM

Then you choose what role you want to play in combat, which is devised from a 3x3 grid of choices I came up with.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:36 PM

There's a "Offense vs Defense" axis, which is exactly what it says.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:36 PM

And a "Frontline vs Rearguard" axis, which is 'how close do you want to be to the action?'

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:37 PM

Do you want to plink away from range? Rearguard. Want to be up close and personal? Frontline. Want to be the guy who flanks? Midrank.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:37 PM

So the grid plays out like this...

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:38 PM

Off. Frontline Bal. Frontline Def. Frontline
Off. Midrank Bal. Midrank Def. Midrank
Off. Rearguard Bal. Rearguard Def. Rearguard

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:39 PM

So you pick one of those to complement the options you've already picked!

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:39 PM

And then, obviously, all this condenses down to a semi-singular 'Class'

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:39 PM

Based on what you picked.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:40 PM

And the grid will have better names eventually.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:40 PM

Offensive Frontline I know is getting renamed to 'Vanguard'

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:40 PM

So, alright. Say you want to play a Berserker-type.

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:41 PM

You'd pick "Warrior", "Natural", "Vanguard"

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:41 PM

So you'd have the Archetype of 'Berserker' and underneath people would be able to see what that is in detail

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@Monathin

Tue, May 6, 2014 4:42 PM

In this case 'Natural Warrior Vanguard'