MRPG New System Theorycraft

The goal here is to produce a new system to replace "There is no Twelve" - while this was fun, it was shamefully lifted from Exalted.

Coherent Description

The new system uses percentage rolls for hit and specially constructed hit dice for damage calculations.

Attack Stages

Attack and Defense are still uses, as is star rating(with greater variability). On an attack, the attacker rolls percentage dice to try and beat the target's defense. Percentage dice use two 10-sided dice, one with 00-90 and the other 0-9 as the first and second numbers respectively. On a successful attack, they roll a hit dice.

The hit dice is assembled customer for each character. The idea being to use a six-sided dice with the different sides assigned to values on a table. What kind of hit they land determines what damage dice they roll according to the weapon. A similar system can be used for certain types of spells.

Attack Order:

• Roll Attack
• On success, rolle Hit Dice
• Roll Damage based on Hit Dice outcome

Combat Hit Dice

Sides and costs:

• Glancing Blow - 0
  • Base weapon damage only, no bonuses for quality or + values, or special effects

• Light Strike - 2
  • Base damage + special effects, no bonuses for + values or quality

• Full Hit - 3
  • All weapon damage counted

• Crit - 6
  • Damage Multiplied according to some other factor

• Additional Dice - 6
  • On attack, roll a second Effect dice

Characters start with 6 points to spend. On an attack that hits, they roll the dice, check the table, and roll for damage. This is the base table upgrades; individual character classes will have specialized upgrade paths that add extra effects.

Sidebar - take the exact same concept of weapon + values and apply to spells, invent mechanics to add +s to spells.

Changes to Skills

Instead of having Proficiencies, everything you can do is going to be lumped together under the grand auspices of "Skills". The reason for this is to discourage min-maxing and incentive more diverse character creation. The percentage roll is used for everything, and stats still cap skills. The main difference is, now your ability to sneak around is also tied to your ability to use a weapon or smooth-talk a bar maiden.

To augment this system, we add in a concept of Backgrounds. These along with class provide bonuses to skills.

Notes

Concept and Thoughts

This provides numerous added build options. Building for attack power, reducing enemy defense, and extra points to spend on the hit dice, plus damage increasing effects. It makes the build aspect more complicated(which is desired) but simplifies combat and produces something a little more unique.

Other Notes

Along with this we are heavily overhauling the character classes and possibly ditching the pillar system. The idea is instead to move to a more multi-class friendly environment wherein X levels of Class Y grants Benifits Z. This includes Facets and otheraspects. This works similarly with the races, wherein you get a series of granted things based on race.

Also considering overhauling the magic system. Mages would still exist as a distinct class, but magic itself would become more open to other characters. The idea is anyone can learn magic, but mages are specialists and thus much more powerful.