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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emberashh" data-source="post: 9161953" data-attributes="member: 7040941">A most fascinating thing I realized today is just how often I keep floating back to my original ideas after many rounds of iteration and testing. Originally, for example, I had it in my head to call my action economy the Two Action economy, which was mostly motivated by a tongue in cheek defiance of the Three Action economy's popularity. And while I design with that in my noodle, how I described what I came up with (the Act/React rigmarole you can read about earlier in the topic) was a bit of a grating experience. You could get it eventually, especially once you used it in play, but it was consistently a pain point.Recently, I realized I could just call them Actions and skip the delineation between Act and React. When you roll your Combat Roll, 2d20, each die generates a value called an Action Rating. You can use each to take either a Class or a Skill Action, or you can double down and use both dice to make a single Action of your choice. I more or less came full circle after nearly a year, and now its generally much easier for it to click with people, which I think is mostly due to positioning the mechanic more clearly as making a choice of actions. It also just meshes better with how Combat is being developed; many Abilities for example are going to have Action Ratings required for different levels of effects. Its much easier for such things to reference a less specific Action Rating, both in terms of clear communication but also in just the ease of doing so. So thats been fun. In other news I'm very nearly baseline complete in my Adventuring system. I still need to work through Questing (which is actually more about Reputation, though I've been theorycrafting Quest Hex Flowers, and if it pans out they'll be a part of that) and I still need to make my new changes to Exploration & Discovery (very excited there; I'm positive I've found the Holy Grail). Elsewhere I've also further refined Skills and Talents. Theres some new ones, and I've deprecated Dexterity in favor of Agility (don't remember what prompted it but it feels righteous so its in), and I've started in on Bloodlines and Birthsigns, my games takes on Race and Luck mechanics, essentially. Once I get through all of that I intend on finishing work on Weapons and Spells, and once thats in a good state its back through the original classes I wrote to update them and then on to all the ones I didn't start. All in all things are progressing fairly well. The game keeps getting sharper, which is great considering the scope of it all.</blockquote>

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