RE: Eskero: The pen and paper RPG system
03-27-2013, 03:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-27-2013, 05:33 PM by Gen.)
DM-imposed alignment changes seemed hollow, yet restricting. I'm still not even sure about the mechanical implications of alignment after many many many many heated threads on /tg/ about what this alignment means or that alignment means. I guess it determines which spells you can cast, or if you can stay in your class ie paladins.
The more I think about it, the more interesting I think the whole quirk system of, "You get this quirk and it helps you on these rolls, but you have to recharge that bonus by actually acting out your quirk in situations that call for it, even if it creates a negative situation." is. The only issue I have with that, is it would quickly create this sort of annoying token side to characters, though that can be fixed by having a selection of potential quirks that are more broad, or allowing two quirks to create more of a depth of how they're motivated to react to a situation. One of the better sides of the system though, is that it gives a very solid way of helping along the non-combat rolls, and giving them an extra "oomf".
Speaking of which, maybe I should think of songs with less of a combat use and are more like utilities to use within the world. A song, which can create a rainstorm, which COULD be useful in combat but not in a clear mechanical way such as buffing water based attacks or something, though it COULD create more water for watery Aspects to draw their songs from, or extinguish fires, or melt witches.
Addendum: Alignment doesn't really fit Eskero in a cosmology sense since in DnD Good and Evil are sort of elemental and are a part of their greater cosmology. Eskero deities are more elemental beings who are just trying to make their way in the world. They follow the laws of their domain, as they interpret them really, and that is their scope of morals, which might become very skewed from "normal" morality.
The more I think about it, the more interesting I think the whole quirk system of, "You get this quirk and it helps you on these rolls, but you have to recharge that bonus by actually acting out your quirk in situations that call for it, even if it creates a negative situation." is. The only issue I have with that, is it would quickly create this sort of annoying token side to characters, though that can be fixed by having a selection of potential quirks that are more broad, or allowing two quirks to create more of a depth of how they're motivated to react to a situation. One of the better sides of the system though, is that it gives a very solid way of helping along the non-combat rolls, and giving them an extra "oomf".
Speaking of which, maybe I should think of songs with less of a combat use and are more like utilities to use within the world. A song, which can create a rainstorm, which COULD be useful in combat but not in a clear mechanical way such as buffing water based attacks or something, though it COULD create more water for watery Aspects to draw their songs from, or extinguish fires, or melt witches.
Addendum: Alignment doesn't really fit Eskero in a cosmology sense since in DnD Good and Evil are sort of elemental and are a part of their greater cosmology. Eskero deities are more elemental beings who are just trying to make their way in the world. They follow the laws of their domain, as they interpret them really, and that is their scope of morals, which might become very skewed from "normal" morality.