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<blockquote data-quote="Matchstick" data-source="post: 6391187" data-attributes="member: 217">Trappings in Savage Worlds would handle most, if not all of those.&nbsp; Savage Worlds just provides the basic statistics for something like a magical Bolt attack, but the character and GM work together to decide how it manifests in game.&nbsp; So Bolt on the Bard might be a sonic attack guitar chord turned up to 11, on an android might be an energy slinging arm replacement, on Korra might be a fire/ice/water/rock/air projectile, on an Archon might be a pale fiery manifestation of Chi, etc.&nbsp; The basic statistic for a Bolt attack is there, but the trapping, how the attack manifests in the game, is completely up to the player (with GM approval of course).&nbsp; If the player wants a stream of hornets to flow out of his/her mouth and attack the bad guy, go for it.&nbsp; Eye beams?&nbsp; No problem.&nbsp; Mechanically all of those things would probably be VERY similar, but the in game appearance could be radically different.&nbsp; I've found that when players write &quot;Mk VII Arm Cannon&quot; on their sheet, they don't care so much when their neighbors &quot;Hadouken&quot; attack does essentially the same damage (and of course characters can spend to make their Bolt better, so even the same damage may not happen).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Core Savage Worlds has differing Arcane Background Edges; you could do your own similar thing if you wanted.&nbsp; Arcane Background: Wizardry, AB: Cybernetics, AB: Music, AB: Chi Powers, etc.&nbsp; Maybe they would be character creation Edges, or you could say only take one at a time, if you want them to be exclusive.&nbsp; There wouldn't be any classes I guess, so that doesn't fit with your question, but you could limit the Arcane Backgrounds to effectively create classes as mentioned above, and still have your fightery, theify, non-Arcane types.&nbsp; In fact maybe the best way to help classes feel unique is to not have classes; to just offer options and let the players build what their unique vision holds, or as close as is possible.I'm not trying to shill, Savage Worlds was the first thing that occurred to me, and then I got long winded.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Have fun no matter how you decide to go, it sure sounds like some cool stuff you have going on!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matchstick, post: 6391187, member: 217"] Trappings in Savage Worlds would handle most, if not all of those. Savage Worlds just provides the basic statistics for something like a magical Bolt attack, but the character and GM work together to decide how it manifests in game. So Bolt on the Bard might be a sonic attack guitar chord turned up to 11, on an android might be an energy slinging arm replacement, on Korra might be a fire/ice/water/rock/air projectile, on an Archon might be a pale fiery manifestation of Chi, etc. The basic statistic for a Bolt attack is there, but the trapping, how the attack manifests in the game, is completely up to the player (with GM approval of course). If the player wants a stream of hornets to flow out of his/her mouth and attack the bad guy, go for it. Eye beams? No problem. Mechanically all of those things would probably be VERY similar, but the in game appearance could be radically different. I've found that when players write "Mk VII Arm Cannon" on their sheet, they don't care so much when their neighbors "Hadouken" attack does essentially the same damage (and of course characters can spend to make their Bolt better, so even the same damage may not happen). Core Savage Worlds has differing Arcane Background Edges; you could do your own similar thing if you wanted. Arcane Background: Wizardry, AB: Cybernetics, AB: Music, AB: Chi Powers, etc. Maybe they would be character creation Edges, or you could say only take one at a time, if you want them to be exclusive. There wouldn't be any classes I guess, so that doesn't fit with your question, but you could limit the Arcane Backgrounds to effectively create classes as mentioned above, and still have your fightery, theify, non-Arcane types. In fact maybe the best way to help classes feel unique is to not have classes; to just offer options and let the players build what their unique vision holds, or as close as is possible. I'm not trying to shill, Savage Worlds was the first thing that occurred to me, and then I got long winded. :) Have fun no matter how you decide to go, it sure sounds like some cool stuff you have going on! [/QUOTE]

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