[Four Color to Fantasy] Limit Breaks?

[SpuneDagr]

I've been looking at some of the super powers in Four Color to Fantasy by d20 press and I think some of them would translate very well into a Final Fantasy-style limit break system. Each character would effectively have one level of "Hero" with all their hero points spent on their limit break.

Right now I have it set up so that under a certain circumstance (HP below 25% or something) the character can do a very powerful attack that does extra damage.

Limit Break
Base Rank 3
Increased Damage +8 (total = 5d6)
HP Restriction -2
Deals 4 subdual damage with each use -2

Here's my question. How exactly should I do the HP restriction? Should I say that the character can use the limit break once when his HP gets below 25% of his maximum? Would he "save up" damage done to him in a limit gauge as per FF7?

Has anyone done anything like this?

 

[las]

I tryd to do one bast off of FF10 its overdrives. For me it was gust to hard to keep track of. I do think a overdrive stile stitem is the way to go. heres what I did (this is gust what I think I did).

(Con of Charater x 10) + Charater level = points to overdrive

they gain points by dealing damage/or taking damage. When they have all the points needed they can do an overdrive. This is what I think I did hope this helps you out.

 

[Gunslinger]

This certainly looks like a cool idea, but I'm not really sure how it could implemented as far as the effects. Would you let players choose what theirs does(within reason)? Or say, "it does this"? In all FF games with limit breaks each character has a unique limit break, and I think it would be a whole cooler if each class had a set limit break. That does seem to present a problem for mutliclass characters, but maybe it should be an incentive to stay single classed?

 

[SpuneDagr]

I'm going to write up some basic ones: do extra damage, summon something, heal everyone, etc. Each character will use those as a basis for making up their own.

 

[RangerWickett]

Well, regardless of if someone here comes up with any, it's an idea I'd like to put into the expansion of FCTF. Thanks for the ideas, and if you actually come up with rules, we might use them.