NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="erleni" data-source="post: 5855307" data-attributes="member: 69422"><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">What I would do is:</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Attach to every power (and I would like even basic attack, trip, etc. to be powers) a cost in term of fatigue/mana/force of will/whatever points. Fatigue will be used for martial maneuvers, mana for magic, force of will for psionics, etc.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Let the character start the day with a given resource pool in fatigue/mana/etc. based on its classes and levels. Each time you gain a level you increase your pool in one or more categories based on the class (or prestige class) you level up in, so say that a fighter will get 20 points of fatigue and a paladin will get 10 of fatigue and 10 of mana.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">With increasing levels you may learn new maneuvers, each one with a cost tagged to it (some may have a cost in more than one category, so that an assassin may have martial maneuvers with fatigue costs and maybe shadow maneuvers with a cost in fatigue and mana or fatigue and shadow, if there is a shadow points pool).</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Basic maneuvers are available to everybody and can be boosted spending more points (maybe you'll have to take a feat to get the possibility to boost an existing basic maneuvers).</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">If you want to give at will powers just give them a zero cost.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Short rests refill a portion of the pool (say 20%).</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">An extended rest refills the whole pool.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Permanent injuries, illnesses may affect your total pool amount in one or more categories.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px">This system would be flexible and will allow to retain both 4e powers and more generic maneuvers. Up to the player to decide what he wants to stock on.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Helv'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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