Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 3322652" data-attributes="member: 1231"><p>There are a lot of different ways you could expand Ari's basic premise, especially if you wanted to make magic a more parallel system to physical combat. If you ditched spell levels and instead based spell difficultly on the Magic Attack Bonus, you could have a fighter who picks up that odd magical feat or special ability, just like a wizard who can take weapon (focus). You could even have SP (Spirit Points) that worked just like Health Points but for some kinds of magical damage. If you get to 0, your disabled, and -1 or less and you're out cold. I'm not quite sure what I'd make the penalty for reaching -10 though. I'd go with the Wis for bonus SP, Cha for more damage, and Int for magical defense. I'd have defense and magic defense bonuses for each class. Or rather, I'd like to test such a system, as a possibility. You could even make spell-use into feats, and spell-casting classes simply get all of the appropriate feats for free, just like fighters get armour, shield and all martial weapons for free.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Kaodi, post: 3322652, member: 1231"] There are a lot of different ways you could expand Ari's basic premise, especially if you wanted to make magic a more parallel system to physical combat. If you ditched spell levels and instead based spell difficultly on the Magic Attack Bonus, you could have a fighter who picks up that odd magical feat or special ability, just like a wizard who can take weapon (focus). You could even have SP (Spirit Points) that worked just like Health Points but for some kinds of magical damage. If you get to 0, your disabled, and -1 or less and you're out cold. I'm not quite sure what I'd make the penalty for reaching -10 though. I'd go with the Wis for bonus SP, Cha for more damage, and Int for magical defense. I'd have defense and magic defense bonuses for each class. Or rather, I'd like to test such a system, as a possibility. You could even make spell-use into feats, and spell-casting classes simply get all of the appropriate feats for free, just like fighters get armour, shield and all martial weapons for free. [/QUOTE]

Verification