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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9643268" data-attributes="member: 907">I'd love to see something like the primarily cooldown-based skills of Divinity: Original Sin II (and likely other games in the same series). The game has ten different abilities (things you gradually increase as you level up and that grant various benefits based on how high they are) that govern access to skills (activated things that do primarily combat-based stuff). Four of these abilities are elemental-based (Aerotheurge, Geomancer, Hydrosophist, and Pyrokinetic) and six are not (Huntsman, Necromancer, Polymorph, Scoundrel, Summoning, Warfare). There are some skills you can get that mix an element-based skill with a non-element-based one.Each of these skills has a cooldown, usually 3-5 rounds but occasionally 2 or 6. This means you need to vary your skill use and figure out good rotations. This is further incentivized by having lots of status effects (both on individual targets and on surfaces) that can affect further spells. For example, you can lead with the Geomancer skill Fossil Strike (small AOE that also splashes oil in the area) and follow up with a fire spell that would explodiate the oil, dealing further damage and setting the area on fire.I thought this combat system added a lot of depth to fights. I'm not sure how well it would translate to tabletop however – the main issue would be that it would be a lot to keep track of. It's probably doable as a player keeping track of your own cooldowns, but it would be a PITA for the GM to manage a dozen foes at once.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 9643268, member: 907"] I'd love to see something like the primarily cooldown-based skills of Divinity: Original Sin II (and likely other games in the same series). The game has ten different abilities (things you gradually increase as you level up and that grant various benefits based on how high they are) that govern access to skills (activated things that do primarily combat-based stuff). Four of these abilities are elemental-based (Aerotheurge, Geomancer, Hydrosophist, and Pyrokinetic) and six are not (Huntsman, Necromancer, Polymorph, Scoundrel, Summoning, Warfare). There are some skills you can get that mix an element-based skill with a non-element-based one. Each of these skills has a cooldown, usually 3-5 rounds but occasionally 2 or 6. This means you need to vary your skill use and figure out good rotations. This is further incentivized by having lots of status effects (both on individual targets and on surfaces) that can affect further spells. For example, you can lead with the Geomancer skill Fossil Strike (small AOE that also splashes oil in the area) and follow up with a fire spell that would explodiate the oil, dealing further damage and setting the area on fire. I thought this combat system added a lot of depth to fights. I'm not sure how well it would translate to tabletop however – the main issue would be that it would be a lot to keep track of. It's probably doable as a player keeping track of your own cooldowns, but it would be a PITA for the GM to manage a dozen foes at once. [/QUOTE]

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