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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imret" data-source="post: 2728109" data-attributes="member: 991">Welcome to the board. I'm engaged in the same process myself - world-building with major rules alterations to keep the feel - and thought I'd stop by and offer my couple of coppers.I'm fond of a wound points/vitality system, at least in theory, since I've yet to play with them. I quite like fatigue and exhaustion additions, they're vastly underrated conditions in my experience and really make PC's worry about their health. I'm also in favor of armor as DR; would you be using full AC or partial AC from the armor? The trouble with partial AC is that armor becomes less attractive at higher levels, and full AC + DR makes mooks in armor tougher opponents than they used to be. Clearly there are no perfect answers, just curious if you've tried one or the other and have a preference.I can see where you're going with the zero-level system, though I can't say I'm really in favor of it. Then again, the UA generic classes revitalized my love of 3.x D&D and got me to blow the dust off my world design binders, so we're going in different directions here I think. I also have no interest in the Epic rules as written, and thus don't need to tweak a rule to adapt to them.I like an MP-based magic system, and while I haven't checked the EPH rules as yet - I've never been a fan of psionics and Exalted certainly didn't help me find time for it - I can see your reasons for using the MP dice. The trouble with MP systems is in my experience that wizards as written don't mesh easily, gaining bonus versatility over other casters with a 'spells readied' mechanic. Possibly your experiences are different? Proficiency systems are much better than RAW, in my opinion, and yours certainly fits the bill. I hadn't considered using them to purchase armor and shield proficiencies also, but I think I like it.I'm going to be honest on this point - I like the chakras as presented, but I'm afraid I simply dislike new attributes. In my experience, players have a tendency to forget them, races require slightly more work to balance, monsters need to be converted...if you're using a particularly limited selection of monsters and races and have players who are on board with the idea, I think it could be an excellent system. Otherwise, possibly more trouble that it's worth.Additional short notes:* I really, really like the warding/turning/destroying/rebuking system as presented. Since I've got a world riddled with spirits, I may need to 'borrow' the general concept. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Especially since my gods are just massively powerful spirits, and could be warded by a mortal with enough power...* As far as healing goes, does your chakra system permit an effect to require two chakras working in unison? It gives competent healers a greater sense of...majesty, IMO.* Mirror-world system for high-fantasy/horror/war adventuring; wish I'd thought of that first. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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