Gamma World-inspired dual-class design
- Thread starter RangerWickett
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I've been working on something very similar, except it wasn't using 4e as a base - it was using a modified version of earthdawn. But I took it one step further:
each character got three "Paths" or something similar. Players had to pick one class, one race, and then either one more class or one more race. If a player took the same race twice, he was pretty much a paragon of that race ("a dwarf's dwarf"). If he took two different races, he was either a half-breed, or maybe a character that was born of one race and raised by another.
Some classes and races count as two "Paths" - a centaur or an ogre, for example, counts as two choices.
The general design is that races are broad in scope, with maybe a few areas of focus, whereas classes tend to be focused on a specific area or goal. In mechanical terms, races focus on attribute boosts, broad inherent abilities, and maybe a few skill boosts, while classes focus on specific class abilities and skill boosts.
The other goal of the game was to have some classes and races be entirely non-combat and non-magical in focus, whereas others were entirely combat oriented. But then, the other goal of the system was to have something that runs as fast as BECMI but has a bit more granularity to the characters - and to have a system that is not focused entirely around combat, but rather on exploration.
each character got three "Paths" or something similar. Players had to pick one class, one race, and then either one more class or one more race. If a player took the same race twice, he was pretty much a paragon of that race ("a dwarf's dwarf"). If he took two different races, he was either a half-breed, or maybe a character that was born of one race and raised by another.
Some classes and races count as two "Paths" - a centaur or an ogre, for example, counts as two choices.
The general design is that races are broad in scope, with maybe a few areas of focus, whereas classes tend to be focused on a specific area or goal. In mechanical terms, races focus on attribute boosts, broad inherent abilities, and maybe a few skill boosts, while classes focus on specific class abilities and skill boosts.
The other goal of the game was to have some classes and races be entirely non-combat and non-magical in focus, whereas others were entirely combat oriented. But then, the other goal of the system was to have something that runs as fast as BECMI but has a bit more granularity to the characters - and to have a system that is not focused entirely around combat, but rather on exploration.
